After battling Lyme disease, a 22-year-old Canadian woman committed herself “to liberate herself from the intolerable suffering.”
Amelie Champagne battled the illness for years without receiving a diagnosis, but she persisted in her university studies and continued working at a respite facility for children with special needs despite the suffering.
The illness, which is spread by tick bites, had advanced well beyond the physical symptoms and was now having a negative influence on her brain.
After years of battling her ailment, she was given a positive diagnosis in the US last year. However, it arrived too late to help her symptoms.
After the event, her father, Alain Champagne, CEO of Groupe Jean Coutu and Brunet, wrote on LinkedIn that the illness had “basically highjacked her.”
Amelie’s Facebook page reveals that she actively lobbied on behalf of people with autism.
Alain commented, “We are convinced she is now at peace and that her soul is shining brilliantly onto the many lives she touched during her brief time with us.”
In the months before her death, the young woman began volunteering at a homeless shelter close to her parent’s house.
Her father noted, “My greatest source of motivation was and is the tenacity and constant positivity she demonstrated while coping with the ever-increasing symptoms.”
“Even if every breath and every minute at this point is agonizing, we will attempt to keep living our lives with the same altitude she lived hers,” said the speaker.
She continued to be an active part of her community despite the fact that her sickness had worsened to an intolerable degree, according to her father.
We will always adore you and treasure the memories of our amazing time spent together, he said in closing. You improved all of us as humans. Now it’s up to us to rise to the occasion.
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Lyme disease is mostly curable, according to specialists, however unusual chronic cases sometimes go misdiagnosed.
People who get Lyme disease are often offered antibiotics.
However, patients who are directed to a hospital or clinic where they may get stronger antibiotics are those for whom prescriptions are ineffective.
Compared to instances that are typically acquired, chronic Lyme disease is substantially more severe.
Chronic Lyme disease symptoms are more severe than those of acute Lyme illness. Pain, exhaustion, cognition, and behavioral problems are some of them.
It may also result in other diagnoses, the majority of which are usually rheumatologic and neurologic illnesses.
If Lyme disease is not treated, sufferers may start to experience heart palpitations, shooting pains, numbness, or tingling in their hands or feet, severe headaches and/or stiff necks, arthritis, body rashes, loss of muscle tone on one or both sides of the face, heart palpitations, and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
Animals that have the illness might have symptoms that are comparable to those in people. The illness is not spreadable.