Please help our friend, Linda Blatt, by either sharing this page or donating to her GoFundMe page:
Trapped in her own body, with no government support and with almost nothing left to give, Linda Blatt needs our help.
GoFundMe page proceeds are towards treatment for our dear friend who has been battling a severe case of Lyme disease and is now in urgent need of medical intervention overseas.
For those of you who don’t know, Lyme Disease is most commonly caused by a tick bite. The disease rapidly spreads throughout the body, attacking all joints, muscles and the central nervous system. Commonly leaving sufferers unable to walk, with daily seizures, an inflamed brain and chronic body pain.
To make it even worse, Australia is the only country that doesn’t recognise Lyme disease. Which means there is a lack of medical treatment and no financial support from Medicare, resulting in being trapped in a living nightmare with Linda’s GoFundMe page her only chance.
Just 5 years ago, Linda was an independent, driven and happy woman. Travelling the world and hanging out with her friends, whilst in her final year of her Psychology degree, thinking she was so close to starting her dream career, until she was bitten by a tick in the U.S.
Now Linda has seen every doctor, hospital, specialist you can think of, and is reduced to being cared for 24/7 by her mother. With such excruciating head pain/inflammation, that she recently spent 6 months straight lying down in the dark, unable to read or watch tv, only leaving to go to the hospital.
Linda is now barely able to walk, caused by nerve damage and numbness, that we’re praying can be reversed.
Due to recent major side complications, such as a life threatening blood infection and heart complications, the doctors here do not know what to do. This has set Linda back so far, that it is her latest symptoms that are now the most concerning… they are called losing hope and scared that this is the end.
Linda has spent over $500k on treatments overseas, to gain her quality of life back, however most have given her little improvement or she has relapsed within 5 months.
This is Linda’s last hope, and she desperately needs to leave next month. Dependent on how much we raise, Linda will go to either a treatment centre in Israel for 2 months, or Cyprus specialising in Ozone treatment for 5-6 weeks.
For further reading, Linda has bravely been in the press barely helping to raise awareness:
Mamamia
Living with Lyme Disease in Australia
Documentary
Visit Linda on YouTube: goes for 45.38 minutes
GoFundMe
Visit here: Save my Girlfriend, Linda
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