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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: Pivoting in Life & Lyme - an interview with Marta Edmisten
Description: Martha Edmister is a multi-talented 47-year-old artist, entrepreneur, and mental health coach from Baltimore Maryland. Her health journey began after suffering a childhood tick bite, 2 years before Borrelia Burgdorferi was identified as the bacterial cause of Lyme.
Shortly after her childhood tick bite, she developed health issues that were followed for 14 months by the head of endocrinology at DC’s Children’s Hospital. For the next 40 years she battled mental and physical illnesses resulting in multiple hospitalizations.
Prior to securing a Lyme Disease diagnosis, she was medicated for serious mental illness and her physical symptoms digr...