079 Safety Doesn't Exist Anymore

You've heard that. Safety. In your head, you've heard that said. That's the fear. You realized safety doesn't exist anymore. And you have to come to the conclusion that you're gonna have to fight for it. That's what we're all doing. We're just fighting. Then we're gonna heal. And live. So fighting is a mindset. Healing consists of lists of choices. Hard, hard choices nobody wanted to make. Living, that's what we're after. That's the end goal. So we want to live. We don't want to just exist anymore. We want to live. Welcome to Lion Voice. We are your hosts, Sarah and Aaron Sanchez. We created this show designed to inspire, educate, and encourage you on your path to wellness. This show's purpose is to help you put the puzzle pieces of healing into place. Join us as we interview other warriors and discuss how fighting is a mindset, healing consists of choices, and living is the outcome.

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Yep. Good morning, everybody. Well, I don't know if it's morning for you, but it's morning for me. Today is Sunday, Mother's Day 2019. I am flying solo today, but that's okay. I have a— Sarah's in treatment at Scottsdale, Arizona at Invita Medical Center. She is currently getting treatment for her second infection, so Some would call it a relapse, but I— it was actually a second infection where she was bit, got a second bullseye ring on her arm this time. First time was on her hip, and that was a 15 or 20 year journey to figure that out. And about 6 years ago, she went out to Invita Medical for the first time and received her life back, literally. She was in a real bad state after 15 years of undiagnosed Lyme disease. It had taken a toll. She had, uh, she, she had— her body was, uh, destroyed basically. Her mind was, was going. She was in a wheelchair having seizures, uh, needed 24-hour-a-day care. We have 5 kids as well, uh, 2 of which are adopted. The youngest 2, uh, the youngest 2 have Uh, you know, we receive them at 2 years old, and so they have some behavior issues and, and attachment issues that have been very, very taxing for them. First of all, I mean, first of all, they're the ones that are suffering here, not us, but that ingredient into our life is huge, and that has caused a lot of tax in our life as well. Um, so there's that just to give you kind of an idea of who we are and where we're at. I'm honestly, folks, this is going to be a raw and honest look at a very tired person, me. And this episode is about Mother's Day because mothers, I, I understand what they go through now. And I'm not trying to compare myself, but I understand because I've walked a similar journey myself. So I'm going to get emotional on this one. Usually it's Sarah the one crying, but it's me today. I don't even know if I'll release this, but part of the reason for doing this podcast is it's so healing to express myself, and it also helps you all to hear it expressed, it helps you heal as well. We've heard this many, many times throughout the last 4 or 5 years of doing this. So where was I? Oh gosh, we have 5 kids. Sarah was infected once. We're doing much better— or she was doing much better until last year when she was reinfected. She was healing Growing stronger, healing, growing stronger, uh, and then was reinfected, uh, last year on the back porch here in Woodland Park, Colorado, in a state that claims that no— a side note, this is in a state that claims that there's no infection that will be spread, that has ever— there's no infection that has ever spread from a tick to, to, to another human. They have no— that's their official statement. So this, this happened to us in Woodland Park on her back porch. She was wearing bug spray, but a tick nymph bit her. Those are the really small ones, you can't even see them. But we did see a bullseye rash appear. Went and tried to find antibiotics And just to find a doctor that would issue antibiotics, because we'd already been through this journey. If you show up to an ER, they're going to say nope. If you got that bite in Virginia and you came to Colorado and said, I got this bite in Virginia, they'd say, oh, you must have Lyme disease, let's give you the antibiotics. But if you go to them now and say, I got bit in my backyard here in Colorado, they will look at the symptom the bullseye rash. They, you know, every— and they will say, oh, but you got it here in Colorado. Oh, we don't have it here, so therefore those symptoms are null and void. That is the level of intelligence or the level of thinking. I'm not a doctor, but come on, that's not even logical. It's silly. So we traveled last year on Memorial Day weekend, uh, took us 8 hours to find a doctor. We had to go to the north part of Denver, or actually north part of Colorado, to find a doctor that would issue that. We got her 30 days of whatever antibiotic. It didn't take. We got her tested throughout the year at Envita on And yeah, the, the symptoms were, were there. The infection was there. She has a pretty significant, uh, infection in her gut, in her upper GI tract. Um, she had a lot of kidney issues. Kidney issues were, were repeating over and over, unexplained. Antibiotics didn't do that. And then You know, we've just been down this path so many times, we knew something was up. So, uh, we'd been in contact with Invita. Invita had seen that Sarah's health was going down, obviously, because they were treating her. And, uh, the decision was made that we really need to get her treatment because we've already been down this path and we know where this is going. It's stupid to just wait until she's back to that point in a wheelchair needing 24 hours of care. We've already been down this path. We see all the signs. Let's get her to care. So that's where we're at now. She is in currently in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this is a hard day for me because she's not here with her family and she's being tortured again by this ugly thing. It's so hard for everybody. It's nobody's fault, but everybody's paying the consequences. And as a father, I can't do anything to stop that. It's terrifying. So this episode is about mothers, but it's also about those others that are the healthy people, that the caretakers. And I have an analogy of our car. It's going to play into this. You see, Silver, that's her name. Kids and Sarah dubbed her Silver, and somewhere along the line she had— she became a female. But she's silver. She's been with us. She's a 2001 Expedition. In fact, I'm gonna put posts on Facebook about this and you can see her picture. And she's been in, she's been in, uh, the documentary we did, uh, Disappearing from Society. You can find that on our Facebook page. She, she's been there for all these years. She's a 2001 Expedition. We got her used. She'd probably had, I think, I forget exactly, not very many, maybe 80,000 miles, something like— well, I mean, she'd been used. A few additions, you know, to the motor made her kind of cool. A little underpowered, but it would do. There was always a— in the future there's going to be a newer car that would replace her, you know, as we grew, which didn't happen. We still have her now. She's been on a lot of trips, a lot of journeys. She's driven us back and forth to countless appointments, to countless fun things, to countless sad things. The energy that she has used, that she's saved us— she's been such a servant. She's helped us over and over. And it's funny that I'm not emotionally attached to this car, but man, when you find a friend that's been there for you time after time, without, without hesitation, because that's what they're designed to do. That's their joy. It's her reason for being, and they don't mind doing it at all. When you find someone like that, you hold on to them, you cherish them, you take care of them. I'm, I'm a mess. Which is an analogy for me as well, because that's been my role, is Silver. It's my reason for being. It's what I signed up to do. I don't mind doing it at all. So I identify with the stupid car. Moms are just like that too. Sarah is just like that too. Repeatedly asked to do insane tasks, overburdening tasks. The things we've had to— we've taken Silver, attached way too heavy a load Dragged her all over the United States, back and forth to Minnesota, back and forth to California. I mean, she's been everywhere. 240,000 miles and still going strong. Yeah, she whines a little. She's okay if you know— if you, you can hear us coming. Sometimes you have to turn her off in the drive-through because she's whining so much. I don't know, nobody can figure it out, she just whines. That's okay though, she's earned it. It's part of who she is now. It's how we identify her. I don't know. Yeah, she's a good car. Trusted servant. Someone you can rely on. She's hurt though. She needs some repair. Her front end, you know, it's been through a lot. Needs replacement parts. Because of the job she was doing, not because of something she did. It's not her fault, this weakness that she has. It's not her fault. It's because of the job she's been doing. She forgot that. 2, she started to blame herself. I don't have a good solution to this. This is partly just for my healing. I'm gonna re-listen to this in a few minutes and see if I want to bare my soul to the world in this manner. You know what, if it helps somebody else not go through what I've gone through, it's worth it. I'll be out there naked for you. Whatever. I don't want nobody else to do this. It's avoidable. With knowledge, there's power, right? I was watching a movie last night. I don't even remember what, but there was a— so I sometimes— it's funny, like You got to stay positive, right? And you shouldn't— like, if you're going through this, like, I shouldn't be watching like negative stuff. I should just keep my positivity up and positive music. And I do most of the time, most of the time. But I have this weird thing where like I like like zombie movies and some suspenseful movies. I don't like the ones where like there's sexual violence. I hate those ones, but just— I'm fine with physical, right? Okay, whatever. Identify with the struggle? I don't know. And they usually win in the end, you know. The zombie herd is coming in, but they somehow get away and live. The heroes live to see another day. Like, okay, whatever. There's one But there's— I was watching one of these last night, and the hero says, safety doesn't exist anymore. You have to fight for it. Here on Lion Voice, we talk about fight, heal, live. And the reality of this, if you have chronic illness You've heard that safety in your head, you've heard that said. That's the fear. You realized safety doesn't exist anymore, and you have to come to the conclusion that you're gonna have to fight for it. That's what we're all doing. We're just fighting, and then we're gonna heal. And we live. Because fighting is a mindset. Healing consists of choices. Hard, hard choices that nobody wanted to make. And living, that's what we're after. That's the end goal. So we want to live. We don't want to just exist anymore. We want to live. And it's achievable. I've seen it. I'm doing it. Even through this struggle right now, Sarah and I have lived in ways that others only dream about. And I know that as a blessing. I know that as a blessing of hard work and determination and supernatural blessing and universal— but it's just blessings upon blessings. I know that's been given to us. By our own hand, by others' hands. And we're here, we're back at it. We were faced again with the second infection and we're back at it. It's super hard. I hope this is encouraging for you because I want you to know that we— you can keep going, you can keep doing this. It's possible. I'm talking to myself just as much as I'm talking to you. Oh, it's a hard journey, guys. I'm with you. I know you're with me. Fight, heal, live. Hey everybody, I wanted to let you know about a GoFundMe campaign that, uh, some of Sarah's friends had set up for us. Now, this is to cover the added costs around her medical expenses. As you know, even if you can get insurance to cover, there's always added costs, and that's really what we're looking at. So we've got a GoFundMe campaign set up. It's called Sarah Sanchez's Fight with Lyme. I'll put a link on this episode as well. That can be found at Lyme linevoice.com and in our Facebook page, Line Voice. So there'll be links to that and you can find out how you can help us get through treatment and get all the necessary funds in order to get Sarah through treatment. So that'll be set up now. So it's currently active, we've already raised a good portion of it. So if you'd like to find out how you can help us, go to Sarah Sanchez's fight with Lyme on GoFundMe and find the link attached to these show notes or LymeVoice.com.

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