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Katy Neff's Lyme Disease Battle
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Hi, My name is Elizabeth Lallak and I am Katy Neff's older sister and life-long advocate. As many of you know, Katy has been battling anxiety and treatment-resistant depression for more than half of her life with no definitive solutions.
This mental struggle has become increasingly unbearable with new onset physical symptoms making her will to live insufferably. But we will NEVER give up on hope and faith.
Katy's mental pain was amplified back in July of 2021, when she began feeling extreme fatigue and a significant increase in anxiety along with severe headaches, heart palpitations, cramping muscles, ankle and foot swelling, difficulty forming sentences, short term memory loss, severe pain, extreme exhaustion, painful neuropathy, sensitivity to light and sound, and MANY more obscure ailments of pain radiating throughout her entire body.
These extreme conditions have prohibited her from working, driving, and tending to everyday life routines.
This terrifying experience began the ultimate search for answers through many traditional and holistic doctor visits. Many labs were drawn and an MRI of her brain was ordered which ultimately diagnosed her with Chronic Lyme Disease and mold toxicity.
Alas, This controversial disease diagnosis could quite possibly be the culprit of all of these years of mental pain and physical anguish. Most likely resulting from a deer tick bite at an early age. This horrible disease has been slowly taking over her body and mind and has lastly taken over her brain, heart, and nervous and immune system in its final conquest.
With a Lyme Disease diagnosis, the likelihood of recovery is grim in the United States with differing opinions, limited biological proof in testing, the many CDC regulations, and of course no insurance coverage for treatments.
This brought us desperately searching for a treatment center globally that would be able to accommodate her specific needs. After weeks of research, we have narrowed it down to a highly recommended world-renowned Lyme disease clinic called, LYMEMEXICO, led by Dr. Omar Morales in Puerto Vallarta.
She will be going through an aggressive treatment plan over two months, hopefully with life-changing results. There is hope.
This is the jump start of a long journey ahead to healing. There is no cure for Lyme Disease. After returning home Katy will need to continue life long treatments of which insurance will not cover in the hopes of reaching remission and the possibility of return trips to Dr Morales for additional treatments not offered here in the US.
As you can imagine the price tag on this therapy is financially exhausting. But it is the price we are willing to pay for my sister's LIFE. She is wholeheartedly ready to go all in and FIGHT with her army of soldiers and defeat the war on her body. It is terrifying but there is no question we are on the right path with everything falling into place.
Katy is scared of the treatment to come. The thought of leaving her Sunshine, Savannah, back home for what seems like an eternity breaks her heart. She knows this is the best for them in the long run So Savannah can have her Mama back.
I hope that our amazing community of everyone that LOVES Katy will come together and rally into the front lines to support, motivate, reach out, and encourage her to kick some ass and have faith she will gain the life she deserves back. We're not going down without a victory. FIGHT!!!
Organizer and beneficiary
Elizabeth Neff Lallak
Organizer
Albertville, MN
Kathrine Neff
Beneficiary