The forthcoming season of the TV reality series “The Bachelor” includes a contestant with a history of Lyme disease.

As recently reported by Yahoo News, 25-year-old Daisy Kent developed sudden hearing problems at age 15. According to Yahoo,

Daisy said she had “a lot of high-pitched ringing and then just progressively got worse, and I couldn’t understand speech very well.” She said the experience was “super isolating” and that she felt very alone at the time.

When she was 17, she was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear. At 21, tests confirmed that she also had Lyme disease, which doctors think could have potentially caused her Meniere’s disease.

She now has profound hearing loss and a cochlear implant.

This season of “The Bachelor” launches in January.

You can read the Yahoo article here. (Warning: it contains spoilers about how the TV show turned out.)