A Life Of Unanswered Symptoms - The Controversial Conspiracy Theory of Chronic Lyme Disease

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week we chat with Jakki about her years-long struggle with her health. The symptoms are weird as hell and they have piled on over quite a long time. We're talking about difficulty walking, swallowing, talking. Not to mention the hallucinations and other psychological symptoms. So what does she have? Hard to say, really. Some docs told her she has cat scratch fever. Some have said it's Lyme disease. Some are completely stumped... What matters to Jakki is less about the label of what she has and more about finding her way onto the road of recovery. We talk about her struggle with her health, the conspiracy theories surrounding Chronic Lyme, her beliefs in what she may or may not have, and just trying to find peace in a life plagued with unanswered symptoms.

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0:00.0	This week on two blocks from the White House.
0:03.2	We're talking about our recent travels and what we've learned from them.
0:06.4	I just got back from the Middle East after covering the Iran War.
0:09.6	And I took what felt like the shortest trip to France ever,
0:12.7	accompanying Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting on Friday.
0:17.8	And I'm in Florida this week for the Artemis II space lunch.
0:21.7	Join me, Katie Simpson and my fellow Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Willie
0:25.7	Lowry, every week on two blocks from the White House.
0:31.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:37.4	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:41.5	This week's guest is Jackie.
0:43.2	She has Lyme disease.
0:44.9	Or at least we think so.
0:46.5	Let's talk about it.
0:53.3	Yes, we are rocking and and rolling talking to our new friend Jackie all the way down from New Orleans.
1:02.2	No, Nalans.
1:03.6	Norland.
1:05.8	Jackie.
1:07.3	Get ready for way more of that.
1:09.3	Sorry.
1:09.7	Just saying.
1:11.7	Yeah, we apologize right off of that.
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