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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: Dancing in the Lyme Light - an interview with Ali Goodman
Description: Ali Goodman is a 24-year-old dancer and Pilates instructor from San Diego, California.
Ms. Goodman’s young life has been punctuated by a passion for the performing arts and health challenges that would hinder her artistic progress. “Never feeling completely normal,” she and her family had to deal with random medical anomalies from the time [she] was born.
Undeterred by a “different [medical] diagnosis” from more than 15 doctors, she was a straight A student, and “danced rigorously”. By the age of “16 or 17” her symptoms became so severe and deteriorating that she “thought [she] was going to die”.
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