Under Our Skin 2: Emergence Page #3

So, you know, layer by layer,

piece by piece, I came back in.

I'm back.

I'm in my body.

I'm not afraid.

That's not true.

I am afraid.

But I know I can deal with it.

After three years of

treatments in Seattle,

I moved back to the bay area, back home.

I married Tim,

and I've been maintaining my health.

At the clinic, I was recognized often

in the waiting room, and I got to be

an inspiration to people, a hero.

Thanks, guys.

It was a bittersweet time

because, coming home,

everything's the same here,

but I was different.

I miss that community,

and I'm trying to recreate that now.

The comparison between the Mandy

that you saw in the documentary

and the Mandy that's here now,

it's just kind of night

and day difference.

I haven't had to have

any more antibiotics

or drugs or anything.

Drug

that experience just made me

want to go into healthcare

and, you know,

try to change things a little bit.

And I got a job as an

intermediate care nurse,

so I deal with some heavily

compromised patients.

I work 48 to 60 hours a week.

I had one patient, and

they were talking to me,

"yeah, and I was watching

this show on pbs,

and it was about lyme disease,"

and they had no clue

that I was in that documentary.

And so they're talking,

and they're talking,

and then they're kind of like,

"how do you know so much

about lyme disease?"

And I'm like, "saw

the same documentary."

Since nursing school,

I sat for my boards.

I went to Paris.

I went to Italy.

I lived in Costa Rica for a month

helping children.

So, now my next goal is

I have to get really fit.

And that's gonna hurt.

I'm really not looking forward to that,

but...

That's the next goal.

She's used to sharing her life

with the fans of "real

housewives of Beverly Hills,"

but model yolanda foster

has been opening up

and sharing even more lately

about her difficult battle

with chronic lyme disease.

I was struggling for about two years

before I finally was diagnosed.

No joy luck for best-selling

author Amy tan.

Lyme disease nearly killed her career.

Somebody asked me the name

of the book I was working on,

and I couldn't remember.

Another side of Daryl

you might not know about

is he's struggling,

despite all of that money,

with something called lyme disease.

You find out you have it, and suddenly

you're down on the floor.

This is serious stuff.

Angeli vanlaanen.

You probably don't recognize her

without slashing some

serious powder there.

I did battle lyme disease

for over a decade.

I mean, this is unbelievable,

from lyme disease to going to sochi.

I was asked to speak

at a lyme rally in Norway,

and I was invited to stay

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