107 Becoming A "Lyme Mom" with Tricia Soderstrom

LYME Voice

Tricia Soderstrom is a wife and mom of four. Tricia and her husband Scott have been married for 30 years and live in Maryland. She is a career homeschool mom, a writer, speaker, virtual assistant and is the creator of Abounding in Hope with Lyme. She and her family suffered from chronic Lyme disease for over ten years. Tricia is passionate about health, nutrition, gardening, and helping women walk with Jesus through the uncertainty and difficulty of living with Lyme!

Key Takeaways:

• After being bedridden for 2 years, Tricia finally got a diagnosis of Lyme disease. Explaining the deep fatigue, loss of memory, loss of cognitive function, and pain.
• After getting diagnosed, Tricia began to see that one of her children was also showing symptoms.
• Over the next few years, each person in the house was diagnosed with Lyme.
• Some of the crazy symptoms included: finger tapping, facial ticks, OCD, anxiety, panic attacks, rage, PANS, oppositional defiance disorder. She rocked our world.
• It took 3 years to get the Lyme doctor to also test for Babesia.
• The medicines we were on, weren’t helping our household heal. So we turned to homeopathy.
• How much strength did it take for you to continually insist that something was wrong, and that your pain and fatigue wasn’t stemming from poor lifestyle choices?
• I had to do an immense amount of research, with brain fog when we weren’t getting better.
• Am I crazy? Doctors thought I was trying to get attention for myself and my kids.
• “I prided myself on taking really good care of my family, eating whole foods, exercising...and it was heartbreaking dealing with doctors who thought I was a Munchhousen-Mom.” Tricia
• I talk to so many moms who are juggling the chaos of trying to keep their kids healthy enough and up on their feet.
• “Having a daughter with PANS rocked our world. For so long we weren’t sure what was going on. But she kinda ruled our world for a while. ” Tricia
• The OCD battle was me trying to help her, and her fighting me.
• “I try not to think about those times because I don’t like to go back there.” Tricia
• “Someone was always complaining about something else that is hurting.” Tricia
• “It was so immense, all I ever did was try and negate the chaos that was coming from one kid.”-Sarah
• Explaining to the other kids in the house that this wasn’t normal behavior, this wasn’t acceptable behavior, was an all-consuming task.
• Rage, OCD and constant fighting
• We had to continually tell our daughter how much we loved her.
• Tag-team parenting: A MUST (we are on the same team and we must continually try and not turn on each other)
• Medical PTSD impacts us more than you want to believe.
• What does it mean to be a Lyme-Mom?
• Homeopathy, diet, and nutrition are super big in the recovery game.
• Treating Lyme on a budget (if that’s even possible)
• “Your whole world is not what you wanted it to be.”-Tricia

Resources Mentioned:

• AboundinginHopewithLyme.com
• Abounding in Hope Talks Podcast

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Contact Tricia:

• AboundinginHopewithLyme.com
• Abounding in Hope Talks Podcast
• Abounding in Hope Academy
• Facebook.com/AboundingInHopeWithLyme
• Instagram.com/AboundinginHopeWithLyme
• Twitter.com/AboundingInHope

Sponsors:

• Kangen Water- http://www.lymewater.com/

• Envita Medical –Envita Medical
• Medical billing services MedicalBillGurus.com
• Lyme Voice Facebook
• The Lyme Voice Podcast- Lymevoice.com

• Lyme Documentary-Disappearing From Society, Life with chronic Lyme in 14 minutes…Documentary
• Little Bite, BIG TROUBLE, available on Amazon –Children’s book about Lyme disease

• Organic coffee! https://www.ovaldogs.com
• Tick Warriors “Insect Repellent” https://tickwarriors.com/

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