Kristofferson’s long-undiagnosed battle with Lyme disease
From the Huffington Post, July 6, 2016:
By Dana Parish
Kris Kristofferson, still crooning and gorgeous at 80, is a Country Music Hall of Famer who ranks among the most versatile of American talents. He’s been a Golden Gloves boxer, a Rhodes scholar, a college football player, an acclaimed actor, a military officer, a helicopter pilot, a Grammy-winner, a self-described screw-up and an icon.
Like many, I was stunned and elated to read in Rolling Stone that Kris’s long-diagnosed Alzheimer’s turned out to be Lyme disease, and that with proper treatment, he is back on the road, doing all the things he loves, and being his blazing, irreverent self again.
Here, Kris’s fierce, intuitive wife, Lisa, tells us how she shepherded him through a haze of missed opportunities and misdiagnoses and got him back. READ MORE.
This is what we all need.. a recovery that doesn’t drag on for yrs or decades. There is so much more going on than just the Lyme with so many of us,and that’s why it’s so important to submit your info to the Lyme Data study.
I have been diagnosed with either dimentia and or Alzheimer’s disease just yesterday. I left a msg. with my neurologist but have not received a call back.
I was prescibed a steroid to treat my (Facial) Bell’s Palsey from a Lime Disease tic bite in 1990. After 30 days I had no more symptoms, but I’m still crazy. “I’d trade all of my tomorrows, for a single yesterday.”