Tick Boot Camp

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Sara Brunner . Sara Brunner is a clinical dietician from Ontario, Canada. In 2014, she was bitten by a tick and started experiencing flu-like symptoms. She was still suffering two years later and had an unsuccessful trip to the Mayo Clinic. The night of the trip, her husband conducted his own research pertaining to his wife’s illness, and Lyme Disease repeatedly cam...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Nicola Ducharme . Dr. Ducharme is a Naturopathic Doctor trained in Australia and the US. She is also the author of several books on Lyme Disease and has developed online Lyme Disease training programs . Early in her career, Dr. Ducharme recognized that many of her patients with Autism had sick mothers. She theorized that the mothers may have Lyme Disease and cou...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Stefanie Smit . Stefanie Smit is a 38-year-old woman from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2016, her Lyme Disease symptoms began to interfere with her everyday life and her ability to be present as a mother and a wife. Her diagnostic and healing journey began after she was failed by 17 medical doctors. As a result of the transformation caused by her Lyme Disease experience, sh...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Lindsay Vose . Lindsay Vose is a 24-year-old woman from Enfield, Connecticut. In 2013, during her freshman year at college, her Lyme disease symptoms became so severe she could no longer exercise, and her brain fog made it difficult to study for exams. Her diagnosis and healing journey began after she began to treat with a naturopath. In May, Lindsay earned her...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Brooke Stoddard . Brooke is a 39-year-old resident of New York City, New York. In 2010, Brooke's Lyme Disease symptoms became career threatening: brain fog made it difficult to find words to complete sentences and occasionally he would have a conversation with a co-worker and realize that he couldn't remember their name. Over the past 6 years, Brooke has treated wi...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Richard I Horowitz, MD and Savi Glowe . Dr. Horowitz is a Board Certified Internist in private practice in Hyde Park, New York. He is the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center and the author of two best selling Lyme Disease books: “ Why Can’t I Get Better? ” and “ How Can I Get Better? ” Savi Glowe is the Director of Operations at the Icahn Sch...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is the dynamic Cassidy Colbert . Despite suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease for over one-third of her young life, Ms. Colbert is very accomplished. She is a student, officer in a leading Lyme Disease education foundation , a Lyme educator, lecturer, blogger and teen Lyme Disease support group administrator. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, Ms. Colbert traveled the Un...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Lillian and Meredith Park, a mother-daughter duo from the northern suburbs of Chicago. Meredith Park has been sick since her late teens, when she started to feel extreme fatigue, severe headaches, and anxiety. Meredith received various misdiagnoses ranging from bipolar disorder to MS. It wasn’t until her daughter, Lillian, was born that Ms. Park figured out the tr...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Michaela Sheranko . Michaela Sheranko is a 25-year-old woman from Massachusetts. She is a creative spirit with an interest in various art forms including music and film. She is also a social media manager and the founder of the Lyme not-for-profit “I love the way you Lyme.” If you would like to learn more about how Michaela Sheranko pursued her Lyme Disease treatme...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Getine Taylor from Bloomfield, New Jersey. Ms. Taylor lived a normal life until five years ago, when she started to feel sick after running a Super Spartan race. She had extreme fatigue, severe headaches, anxiety attacks, and pain all over her body. Her symptoms progressed even further, and her family started to suffer. She even began passing out in front of her dau...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Taylor deRegt . Taylor deRegt is a 28-year-old woman from Carmel Valley, California. After overcoming chronic Lyme Disease that plagued her childhood, she developed dual careers as an event planner and a professional rodeo athlete. Unfortunately, illness caused by a second tick bite forced her to shelve her dual career paths. If you would like to know more about how...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Jeanette Blackwood . Jeanette Blackwood is a 57-year-old native of Colorado now residing in Southern California. After discovering, removing and disposing of a large tick, she began to suffer flu and increasingly debilitating symptoms including vertigo, memory loss, balance issues and paranoia. After divorcing her husband, leaving her church, losing her ability to...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Amy Rogala . Amy Rogala is a 29-year-old woman from Mackinaw City Michigan. She grew up on her family owned campground in the rural northern lower peninsula of Michigan. After graduation from school, she suffered flu symptoms that were followed by headaches, loss of balance, seizures and suicidal ideations. The failures of the traditional medical community forced A...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Maribeth Lacy . Maribeth Lacy grew up in the Mennonite community of Guys Mills, Pennsylvania where she estimates that 1 of every 3 people are suffering from a tick disease. After making the decision to leave her Mennonite community and culture to attend college in California, her tick disease related illnesses caused her health to decline and forced her to leave co...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Dr. Rachel Long . Dr. Long is a Naturopathic Doctor , the author of the book “Living in the Lyme Light: The Challenges and Triumphs of Living Life with Chronic Lyme Disease” and a sought-after public speaker. At the age of 16 after a Lyme Disease diagnosis, she had to travel 6 hours per day, 5 days a week for treatment. Because her parents could not maintain their...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Mikayla Vacher from North Scituate, Rhode Island. Despite never seeing a tick in her life, Mikayla started to develop weird symptoms around the age of 12. She had migraines, anxiety, panic attacks, and a feeling of “overall doom.” By her junior year of high school, she had to give up playing competitive ice hockey, and couldn’t hang out with friends. Not only was he...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Jennifer Buttaccio from Chicago, Illinois. Before becoming sick, she led an active life that included teaching kickboxing, doing pilates, and making DVDs. Then, after she had surgery to remove an ovarian cyst, Jennifer Buttaccio’s Lyme symptoms started to reveal themselves, and her life was never the same. She had to give up all of her hobbies that required her to b...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Natalie Sayre and Will Fleming . Natalie and Will were recently engaged to be married after an 11-year romance that began when they were 16 years old. The relationship survived many bumps, including Natalie’s chronic Lyme Disease that began to limit almost all social activities starting in the couple's junior year in college. If you would like to learn more about...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Leah Spears-Blackmon . In late 2017, Leah Spears-Blackmon suffered three progressively serious allergic reactions after attending a wedding in Colorado. The third and most serious allergic reaction occurred while in the middle of a lake in rural Northwest Arkansas. Thanks to the quick action of a local friend and doctor, Ms. Spear-Blackmon’s potentially life-threate...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is the International racing champion Angelica Fuentes Garcia . After contracting Lyme Disease, the woman credited with breaking through professional racing’s gender barrier was forced to resign from her race team. Her illness became chronic and career threatening because she was misdiagnosed by 22 separate doctors, on two continents, over 3 years. If you would like to...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Veronica Leslie , a United Kingdom (UK) educated Naturopathic Medical practitioner from Cucamonga, California. During her youth, the self described “farm girl” estimates that she was bitten by hundreds of ticks. Not until the age of 33, after a trip to Jackson Hole Wyoming, did she begin to exhibit the symptoms of a tick disease that developed over 7 months to a...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is speech language pathologist and actress Lauren Friedwald . Ms. Friedwald’s acting career includes acting parts in various shows such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, White Collar, Royal Pains and the Michael J. Fox Show. For over 15 years, Lauren Friedwald was ill from Lyme Disease before she was properly tested and diagnosed by her 21st doctor. During her chronic Lyme...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is nurse practitioner Lindsay Tuttle . For over 2 years, Lindsay Tuttle was chronically ill from Lyme Disease before she was properly tested and self-diagnosed. During her 2 year diagnostic journey, she was treated by medical colleagues in various sub-specialties including neurology, rheumatology, naturopathy and primary care. Her primary care physician dismissed Lyme...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Claire Dalton . Claire Dalton is a 22 year old woman from Utah. For most of her life, Claire’s mother was chronically ill from late stage Lyme Disease. It never crossed Claire’s mind that her mother’s illness was something that would impact her as well. Unfortunately, at the age of 17, Claire began to exhibit the symptoms of a tick disease that progressed to a chron...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Mitch Webb. Mitch Webb was living the American dream. He was married, working in corporate America earning a substantial income and he was being groomed to take over a successful family business. His dream life quickly turned into a nightmare when he began to exhibit the symptoms of a tick disease. Today, Mr. Webb describes himself as 100% healed from Lyme Disease a...