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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: The Award Goes to... an Interview with Haleigh Hekking
Description: Haleigh Hekking is a 24-year-old model turned actor from Los Angeles, California, who's now become a fierce advocate in the Lyme community after her personal experience with the disease.
Prior to Lyme completely changing her life, Haleigh was very social, focused on her career, and ran 5 miles a day.
At the young age of 21, Haleigh had tingling hands and feet, shortness of breath, and fatigue resulting in a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) misdiagnosis.
Haleigh was treated with "bubble ozone" and IV colloidal silver which relieved all her symptoms.
About a year...