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Ryanne Stellingwerf

When looking back at when I first started showing symptoms of autoimmune, it seems apparent that it began with a basement remodel when I was three years old. That started my journey with mold illness. The chronic Lyme disease could have started that same year on a wonderful camping trip to Maine, where, the story says I had “30 mosquito bites on my head alone” so my parents cut the trip short. Was there a tick bite in there too? We’ll never know. What I do know is that almost my entire life I’ve been battling.

Along this journey, I became a believer that life is now. Regardless of how we feel, life isn’t going to wait for us. We can embrace it, or keep waiting. I’ll embrace it, thanks!