Elaine C's Biography

Elaine C is a 34 year old woman from Rutherfordton North Carolina. Elaine has Chronic Lyme. In addition to Lyme, she has Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Austism. Elaine is a published author and a produced playwrite. She also is an ex-medical student. Currently, her treatment plans consists of pulsing antibiotics, intravenous Vitamin C, Intramuscular Vitamin B and lots of other supplements.

Elaine suffers from a variety of symptoms from Lyme Disease. She agonizes with Lyme migraines along with pains in her muscles, joints, jaw and neck. She also experiences severe short term memory loss, blurry left side vision, night sweats and balance problems. She has left right disorientation, insomnia, confusion and a decreased ability to concentrate. In addition to these, Elaine is challenged with facial nerve tics/paralysis, sinusitis, sore throat, hoarseness, muscle twitches, numbness, tingling, shooting pains, a slow heart rate with irregular heart beats. She also has lack of verbal fluency and photo and sound sensitivity. However the worst symptoms for Elaine as a writer are Mild Aphasia.

Elaine is fortunate in the fact that no other members of her family have Lyme, but she has 18 friends in her area with Lyme including two very close friends. Elaine's specific prayer request is that she can find wholeness and balance in her life. If you're interested in finding out more about Elaine, check out her websites: twiztedtraveler.wordpress.com and saintaspie.deviantart.com

Emma K.

Emma K is a 24 year old from Morgantown West Virginia. Emma was born in Los Angeles California, but moved to West Virginia around age 2. She has always loved the outdoors. Emma doesn't recollect a tick bite, but she was always sick as a child with chronic sinus infections and had mono that just wouldn't go away.

Emma's troubles also included severe right shoulder/neck and jaw pain that would turn into a debilitating migraine up to 5 times a week. Emma had fatigue so strong that she didn't think she would be able to put one foot in front of the other. She had hip pain, confusion and word loss.

Emma's been in treatment for 8 months and she has a lot less fatigue and only 1 migraine a month. Her hip and knee pain has reduced and she still has some lingering shoulder/neck jaw pain. When she's at the peak of a herx or feeling particularly "lymie" she still has some confusion and gets lost. She does feel a lot clearer though.

Emma has been diagnosed with Chronic Lyme and Erhlichia. She responds to Bartonella treatment and also has high heavy metal toxicity. Currently, she is pulsing and changing around many antibiotics. She also takes a ton of supplements. Most recently, Emma started A-Bart and has seen a vast improvement already. She feels that mild hyperbaric chamber is the thing that has helped her the most. She will begin chelation therapy for the high amounts of lead, aluminum, cadmium and another heavy metal that she can't remember right now. She also has Physical Therapy and energy work & massage.

Emma knows of no other family members diagnosed with tick borne illnesses. She requests prayers of continued healing path. She knows that she's on this healing path and can feel that she's getting there. She also would like another prayer for anyone suffering. Emma has a blog called "Feeling Lymie" Her blog address is http://lymieekatern.blogspot.com/

*** Emma has been in the hospital several times this week. Her latest blog dated today (September 28 2011) explains everything. ****

Her favorite song is Angels Watching Over Me, but I was unable to locate a great video so in substitution, I Can Only Imagine (Mercy Me)

August 2011 Lymies

August 28, 2011 Shadow's Biography living in California.

August 20, 2011 Heather H's Biography living in Texas

August 8, 2011 My Friend Alisa living in North Carolina

August 7, 2011 Brenda N's Biography living in North Carolina.

August 6, 2011 Jaime M's Update living in Ohio.

August 5, 2011 Molly C's Update living in Michigan.

August 4, 2011 Christine's Biography living in North Carolina

Shadow M's Biography

Shadow M. is a 42 year old single mother of two living in Southern California. Shadow was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States at the age of 16. After she finished High School here, she got her Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Math in 1992. She was married the same year. She got a job working as a software engineer. While she was working at HP, she had her first daughter. In 1997, Shadow went back to school for pre-med and received her Masters in Physiology in 2001. She started Medical school after. In 2002, Shadow had her second daughter. She graduated from Medical school in 2006 and did residency from 2006 to 2010 in psychiatry. Shadow divorced in 2009.

Shadow has Lyme Disease, Babesia, Mycoplasma, Ebstein Barr Virus, HHV6, CMV, West Nile and another co-infection bacteria. All of these things give her severe fatigue, muscle weakness, muscle stiffness and pain, joint pain and swelling. She also has brain fog, headaches, nausea, sleep disturbances and depression. Shadow also struggles with migrating pains, panic attacks, loss of balance, mood swings, heart palpitations, air hunger, blurred vision and suicidal thoughts.

Shadow is on a variety of IV medications. She used Invanz followed by Rifampin. She also used two months of Azithroycin. She also uses Oral Mepron interchanging every three months with Malarone. Shadow also uses Oral Tindamax.

Shadow is very thankful that she doesn't have any family members with Lyme Disease. She really needs prayers for positive thoughts and energy. Her blog website is http://www.mylymediseasestory.blogspot.com/

Welcome to Praying for Lymies

I am currently working on writing a biography for Shadow. If you're interested in being featured, leave a comment with your email address and I'll contact you with the survey. :)

If you have been featured in the past and want to have an update, please contact me via a comment and leave your email address so I can contact you. Here is the survey for updating:

• Name
• Age
• Location
• How have you improved?
• What things have gotten worse?
• Specific prayer request
• Anything new you want to share?
• (you can also answer any of the questions from the original survey if they didn't pertain to you the first time around and do this time around such as blog, family members with it?)
• Would you like to use a photograph? If so please email it to me if we're not on FB together

1. All of the old biographies (and posts) will remain. If you come across any URL's that don't work, please let me know via a comment on that particular post. It's difficult to go through every post and find links that don't work. I may copy & paste some of the prayer posts into one post to make it easier for you all to go through the old posts.

2. Want to be featured? Leave a comment. Any ole comment will do, but please leave a way for me to contact you. If you don't, then I can't contact you. It's as simple as that. All comments are moderated so leave your email address for me to contact you. I will get back with you with a Questionaire. We'll connect on several different occasions to make sure that the biography is correct and then I'll set a date for it to be published.

3. First come, first served. I'll keep a list on the blog. Whoever returns the Questionnaire first, gets featured first. It's that simple. Where is the questionnaire? Look over to the left hand side and you'll see it. Otherwise you'll get it in your initial email contact with me.

4. NO MORE EMAILS! In the past I had utilized the "Email 2 Blog" function. I will no longer be utilizing this function. I was getting too many spam messages and very few actual messages. It was difficult to weed through so I decided that comments were better.

5. Want to leave a prayer for a lymie? Leave a comment at the end of their biography.


With revitalizing the blog, I thought it would be fun if I added pictures. So along with the Survey, I will ask if you would like your photo on the blog.

1. Survey for Original Biography

• Name
• Age
• Location
• Illnesses
• Symptoms
• Background
• Treatment Plan
• Do you have family members with it?
• Specific prayer request
• Do you have a blog? What's the website?
• Would you like your photo posted with your biography?
• Is there a Christian song that has special meaning to you?
• Email address so I can contact you

Go ahead .. what are you waiting for? Leave a comment so you can be featured!

Heather's Biography

Heather is a 28 year old Mother who has Chronic Lyme Disease that currently lives in Texas. Her husband is in the military so they move quite frequently. They have two daughters age four and one. Heather was bitten by a tick at the age of 6. She even got the classic bulls eye rash. Heather didn't have symptoms of Lyme until a few years later (including the classic Joint Pain). She had symptoms off and on throughout the years that were not correctly diagnosed until she gave birth to her oldest daughter at age of 24. It took three more years to get a Lyme diagnosis. She is finally in treatment and showing small, but hopeful progress.

Heather experiences nerve pain, bone pain, extreme fatigue and weakness. She is using pulse therapy long term antibiotic therapy using multiple antibiotics at one time. Heather and her husband suspect that their four year old daughter also has Lyme, but do not have the financial means to get her tested right now.

Heather's specific prayer request is that of encouragement and endurance as she fights Lyme Disease. She also needs encouragement for her husband who bears the brunt of all that she can not do. He not only works an 8 hour day, but takes care of the household. Heather needs strength and grace from God to get through her day tending to her young children as best as she can even though she feels so terrible that even small tasks seem impossible.

Heather has a blog that she uses to tell how she's feeling. It's called "Today I feel Exceptionally."
It also has her full Lyme biography if you would like to see. It's at the top right hand corner of her blog.

Welcome to Praying for Lymies!

Welcome to Praying for Lymies. It is with this blog that I hope to share with the world the difficulties we all face with Lyme Disease. I started this blog in March of 2009. It was my hope to feature one Lymie per week, however it quickly grew and things changed. In April, May, and June I had 138 posts (some were from me, some were from others). Then things slowed down. I only had a handful of posts each month the rest of 2009 and then only a handful of posts in 2010. I slowly stopped checking in to see if I had any new messages.

Then a couple of days ago, I saw the first button that Mrs. Dawson made for Praying for Lymies. It was the urging I needed to come back. I looked at the comments that needed moderating. I had a ton of spam messages, but there was ONE. One that asked to be featured. Now this person did not leave an email address for me to contact, but that one person made me realize that I missed the passion I put into this blog.

So if you have been featured in the past and want to have an update, please contact me via a comment and leave your email address so I can contact you. Here is the survey for updating:

• Name
• Age
• Location
• How have you improved?
• What things have gotten worse?
• Specific prayer request
• Anything new you want to share?
• (you can also answer any of the questions from the original survey if they didn't pertain to you the first time around and do this time around such as blog, family members with it?)
• Would you like to use a photograph? If so please email it to me if we're not on FB together

Welcome back. Things have changed (the background for one!), but some things will remain the same. Here is what I wrote in my revitalizing the blog post.


1. All of the old biographies (and posts) will remain. If you come across any URL's that don't work, please let me know via a comment on that particular post. It's difficult to go through every post and find links that don't work. I may copy & paste some of the prayer posts into one post to make it easier for you all to go through the old posts.

2. Want to be featured? Leave a comment. Any ole comment will do, but please leave a way for me to contact you. If you don't, then I can't contact you. It's as simple as that. All comments are moderated so leave your email address for me to contact you. I will get back with you with a Questionaire. We'll connect on several different occasions to make sure that the biography is correct and then I'll set a date for it to be published.

3. First come, first served. I'll keep a list on the blog. Whoever returns the Questionnaire first, gets featured first. It's that simple. Where is the questionnaire? Look over to the left hand side and you'll see it. Otherwise you'll get it in your initial email contact with me.

4. NO MORE EMAILS! In the past I had utilized the "Email 2 Blog" function. I will no longer be utilizing this function. I was getting too many spam messages and very few actual messages. It was difficult to weed through so I decided that comments were better.

5. Want to leave a prayer for a lymie? Leave a comment at the end of their biography.


With revitalizing the blog, I thought it would be fun if I added pictures. So along with the Survey, I will ask if you would like your photo on the blog.

1. Survey for Original Biography

• Name
• Age
• Location
• Illnesses
• Symptoms
• Background
• Treatment Plan
• Do you have family members with it?
• Specific prayer request
• Do you have a blog? What's the website?
• Would you like your photo posted with your biography?
• Is there a Christian song that has special meaning to you?
• Email address so I can contact you

Go ahead .. what are you waiting for? Leave a comment so you can be featured!