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I’ve been wanting to sit down and write this update out for quite some time now… but you know how life just keeps running off ahead of you?  Well, tonight I’m making it happen!

Lucy Lu was helping push my last IV of the day!

I’m still at the doctor daily receiving IV treatments to detox all these dead Lyme toxins from my body.  These IV treatments are also used to kill off the other two co-infections that I have.  I have also been doing a very strong and complex herbal protocol to try to kill off the Babesia and Bartonella.  However, no matter how much or how long I do this herbal treatment along with the intense IV treatments, I have not been able to kill these other diseases and they have to go!

I have been researching through the night endlessly, waiting for a breakthrough in treatment options, hoping for new research in the Lyme community, praying for wisdom, and I have come to realize that the ONLY option I have left is going to be some very, very intense anti-parasitic and anti-biotic treatment.  I have NOT wanted to go down this route as Lyme Disease destroys your immune system, hormones, thyroid, adrenals, etc… and I’ve been working so hard to rebuild all these systems since Germany that it feels so backwards to take these drugs knowing that they will work against all these areas once again.  However; I am out of options and Cory and I both agree that I have to start walking down the path to kill these terrible diseases off now.  We cannot wait until the awful symptoms from them continue to increase.  We have to get me well so that we can treat our kiddos and continue to work towards a healthy family!

Soooooo… now I have to decide which meds to take, weigh out the pros and cons of each drug, and work on the financial side of whatever path we decide to go down.  I am super stressed about the possibility of my seizures coming back, the pain overtaking my body again, and what our lives are going to look like as soon as I start this new treatment.  We know, just as it did when treating Lyme that I will get worse before I get better.  We just don’t know what that “worse” will look like this time around and I am scared.  I will be making a choice that effects my hubby, kiddos, parents, in-laws, and siblings so much… I am not sure if I can handle watching the intense fear that plagued those I love most again.

Please be in prayer for our decisions, for our finances, for our entire family to have peace and strength as we start wading through this next phase ahead of us.

We are praising God for the opportunity to forge ahead into this next phase that would not have been possible without an effective Lyme treatment in Germany and positive detoxing here at home!

Sincerely, Dani

I’ll leave you with a quick update picture style of our last couple of weeks 😉

Straight out of “Grease”… Hayden and Lucy were off to help at our Church’s Big Pumpkin Party!

And don’t forget Mary Poppins who got to enjoy all the festivities!

Family time at the Veteran’s Day Parade 2016! Thank you to ALL who served and sacrificed for our freedoms… We are so grateful for your service!

I mustered up all the energy I had and we ventured out to Devils Lake for a photography field trip… these three sure have great eyes for photography!

Man, I LOVE these three…

This little one is pure sunshine!

Lu and Gig sitting in their “box cars” studying verses for Awana’s Drive-In Movie night!

Just some fun anatomy lessons… and dancing of course too!

Hey all…  we could use some encouragement and prayer!

Even though we are now rid of ALIVE Lyme Disease in our bodies, we are filled with dead lyme bacteria.  It is so toxic.  When you kill it off it releases toxins into your body and you have to work tirelessly to get it OUT!  When I went through two hyperthermia treatments where my body was heated up to 107+* for several hours each time… the spirochetes (lyme bacteria) were killed off and my body was plagued with sooooooo many toxins.  Cory went through this intensive treatment as well and he too is full of this dead and toxic junk.  Because of these toxins we are still at the doctors office 4-5 times each week.  Every single day we receive IV infusions helping us to detox.  This will be our new normal for a LOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG time.

We also knew before heading to Germany for Lyme treatment that I have two other co-infections living inside my body… both from the tick bites that gave me lyme disease:  Babesia and Bartonella.  Our doctor has a plan for working towards killing these infections now that lyme is dead, but this is going to be an intense treatment and a lengthy/ expensive one as well.  With this killing of more bacteria will come more herxing.  I am very nervous that the herxing will involve the intense pain that overtook my body causing numerous seizures and much fear in our home again.  I have lots of decisions to make before starting this next round of treatment, and I still have a lot of questions to ask and research to do… but we know that we have to continue pressing on and striving to find complete healing.

We are struggling… a lot! .  Our symptoms have changed for sure, and many are for the better.  With Lyme being dead, those symptoms from lyme are gone… but now there are new ones from Babesia and Bartonella.  We are both suffering with loads of headaches, neither of us has ever felt fatigue or tiredness like we are right now, I am in pretty constant pain in my legs from the cold (even though it has not been too cold here yet:-( ), Cory is struggling getting any amount of sleep, and the list goes on…

What we need right now:

Prayers!

Please, please pray for wisdom for decisions and strength to FIGHT ON!!!

For energy, concentration, sleep, strength both physically and emotionally.

Pray for our kiddos who are without us often.  They are worried about how we are feeling.  Grey is struggling with us being at the doctor so often, and they just need a break from this yuck!

Our praises are HUGE… we are so thankful for dead lyme disease, for not having had a seizure since August 4th, for my constant migraine that lasted about 6 months being gone, and for an incredible doctor and his team here in Bend able and ready to help us get to health!

Please continue following, sharing, praying and helping us… we need each of you alongside our family in this battle!

XO

Sincerely, Dani

Philippians 3:13-14 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Here is another quick update that was posted on Facebook as I was super duper sleepy after two very long days of traveling… I promise to post a full blog entry very soon!

We have just arrived back home! Safe and sound from Germany… So excited to sleep in our own beds tonight! So much to be thankful for… Parents that took care of kiddos and us, parents that took care of our ranch, animals, burnt up pump, and made us a clean home to come back to, sisters and brothers who helped with animals, picked us up from the airport, and everyone who prayed us through… We are home and ready to continue fighting onward to health and healing!
#prattstrong
PS… Grey was happy to be home… But overly tired😁

Sincerely, Dani