A sequence shedding mild on Lyme illness sufferers by photographer Jiatong Lu. The Lyme neighborhood in the USA has lengthy been invisible to the general public regardless of CDC stories that point out 476,000 persons are identified and handled yearly. Moreover dealing with debilitating signs, Lyme sufferers usually should cope with the lack to work or attend college, isolation from household and buddies, trauma from medical abuse, and great monetary stress.
“Numerous persistent Lyme sufferers are dismissed and blamed, their ache invalidated, and their struggling is deemed as merely of their heads. Via intimate narratives, I goal to seize the silent struggling and emotional isolation endured by these dwelling with this invisible illness.”
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