Alissa is our beautiful 19-year-old daughter and sister who is currently a junior studying Elementary Ed. at Bob Jones University. She has grown up as a missionary kid in West and South Africa. Alissa was first diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease as a toddler in 2007. In 2017 symptoms of Lyme and co-infections flared up, and since that time we have tried eight different kinds of treatments that were within our reach financially and logistically, both in the United States and in South Africa, where we serve as missionaries. Alissa does not know what it means to feel well. She is a fighter and over many years has pushed through Lyme lows and plateaued at a new lower level that she learned to deal with (such as seizure-like episodes). A month ago, she suffered a bad low and had to quit her summer job and return home. For about three years we have anticipated that for Alissa to find relief and healing, she would eventually need intense treatment at a Lyme clinic. We have been brought to this point now, and this week we returned as a family to the States to bring Alissa to a clinic in Florida. The doctor has found Lyme, six co-infections, and Epstein-Barr, among other things, and believes it will take 8-12 weeks of treatments (5-6 hours a day, Mon-Fri) to get the Lyme and co-infections to go dormant and to restore her immune system. This is a huge but necessary financial expense that we are unable to meet on our own. We are deeply encouraged by and grateful for the $15,000 that friends have already gifted us. Would you please consider giving towards our daughter’s remaining medical expenses? We long to see her in much better health and able to resume her college studies. (This LFEBridge was set up and managed by Kristianne Hassman, Alissa's sister.)
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