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HUBBARD, Ohio (WKBN) – A brand new CDC report exhibits Lyme illness circumstances in Ohio and Pennsylvania spiked lately.
Now, a Hubbard teenager desires to boost consciousness for the illness she’s lived with since she was 9. She warns it’s greater than a easy an infection.
Malia Crump was 9 years outdated when she was coated in bullseye rashes and had extreme ache. She was identified with a number of tick-borne sicknesses together with Lyme illness and spent weeks within the hospital.
“I don’t ever want this upon any grownup, any little one,” Malia Crump mentioned. “I went from being a really completely satisfied little one to a really depressing little one.”
She took antibiotics for months however her well being was nonetheless deteriorating.
Now 18, she nonetheless struggles with well being points from the illness that, at one level, left her wheelchair-bound.
“Your physique hurts. It genuinely simply hurts each day. You might have a superb day after which go dwelling getting higher. Flip across the subsequent day and it’s like, ‘What simply hit me?’ It actually takes a toll on you,” she mentioned.
After years of fighting mind fog and ache, Crump finally sought intense remedy at a holistic clinic in Florida
Although she will stroll – not each day is an effective day.
“My legs would simply periodically give out,” she mentioned, including remedy can take a toll.
“I’m on dietary supplements morning, midday, night and bedtime 4 occasions a day. I take a handful of tablets,” she mentioned.
She wouldn’t have the ability to get by means of her illness with out the assist of her dad and mom, brother and youthful sisters.
Footage from her Hubbard Excessive Faculty commencement occasion final 12 months that proved even when she was in a wheelchair – her sisters by no means left her out.
“We make it work. They all the time included me in issues and so they by no means left me out. In the event that they went someplace it was ‘Mailia, come on!’ If I made a decision I wished to go someplace, they had been proper there with me,” she mentioned.
Now, Malia has her CDL, is engaged on her pilot’s license and races bikes.
However she desires folks to know Lyme is an insidious illness and may create long-lasting well being points.
She mentioned if you happen to’re bitten by a tick, “Don’t wait. Don’t take ‘no’ for a solution.”
