Fearon Hosmer

Fearon Hosmer has battled chronic Lyme disease since 2020, possibly earlier. She got Lyme from an infected tick, but she doesn’t know where or how. Here, she shares her journey to get diagnosed – it took months for her doctors to realize what she had, as many don’t think of Lyme as a West Coast disease. “I quickly realized how little the general public and the conventional medical system understand about this disease,” she writes. Chronic Lyme affects close to 2 million people in the U.S.