Under Our Skin 2: Emergence Page #5

to have Dietrich here today

to answer a lot of your questions.

If you have lyme disease,

by my definition,

it means also you belong

to a tribe here on the planet

that is more conscious

and more sensitive,

and also more likely to do

something once you recover

that will be a benefit for all of us.

I think we need to look

at people with lyme disease

or chronic illness as indicators.

They're indicating the

problems in our environment,

in our world, and this

disconnection we have.

The illnesses that we see now,

almost all chronic illnesses,

including the neurological,

are almost entirely caused by microbes

and their activity in us,

and the microbes are

no longer symbiotic with us

because we are not symbiotic

with the environment.

My hope is to help people

to step out of the fear

and the hysteria around lyme disease,

and to show what it means

to treat and heal holistically.

I don't think for me

antibiotics were the answer.

When they were needed,

they were very appropriate,

and they were the answer;

but to get me out of

this chronic illness,

it was gonna take way more

than just a pill to kill off the bug.

Now I understand that healing

happens on all levels,

so taking on your own pain

emotionally and spiritually,

that was the greatest

breakthrough for me.

You know, we talked a long time

about whether or not we should

try for the fifth time.

I'd had four miscarriages,

and we knew that the risk

of him being sick

and the risk of him being born

and dying right there was out there,

but I knew that

I always would have regretted not trying,

and I knew that if he were

born and he were sick,

we could care for him.

Jared was born with lyme disease,

and he started coming here,

and he made it.

You know, he's done

very well. He's made it.

He's a happy little kid.

If I did not have

Dr. Jones in my life,

I probably would not

have had a little boy.

The fact that he was born,

and he was born well enough for me

to hold him and care for him,

and he grew, was amazing.

It's a miracle. I really

think it's a miracle.

I call him my miracle baby all the time.

So I received a diagnosis

of a terminal condition,

and after I received that,

I gave up my medical license,

stopped my medical practice,

stopped my research.

I got rid of about $100,000

worth of laboratory equipment.

I donated it to colleagues

who were doing lyme research.

My medical career had ended.

It was a rough time.

It was definitely a rough time.

When they diagnosed Alan with

the frontotemporal dementia,

a lot of it was based on scans

and psychological testing.

A couple years later,

they redid his testing,

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