Dear Governor Bevin, I feel that we have a medical crisis in our great state of Kentucky. This medical crisis is the debilitating and devastating Lyme disease. I have first and second hand experience with Lyme disease. I have had multiple friends contract the illness. As well, I have the illness. It was not recognized when I first presented with symptoms, six years ago. I was told that Lyme disease was not in my state. According to my doctors, it was impossible that I could contract the disease, unless I had left the state. So, I moved on. I began looking into other terrible illnesses; Lupus, MS, and other major autoimmune conditions. However, after six years of struggle, I switched doctors. We discovered that in fact, I had Lyme disease. There
