Romy Rosen’s Lyme Hack:

“Hi, everyone. My name is Romy Rosen. Happy Lyme Disease Awareness Month. I’m so excited to be sharing a hack again for the third year. This year my hack is a little bit different, it is to make a photo album of all of your positive or most happiest moments. And you put it all in one place because as most of us know, dealing with chronic Lyme disease, which I’ve dealt with for about 11 years of my life, can be really isolating, can be really lonely, and can really trigger a lot of emotions, and negative emotions that you don’t want. And I found that something that’s helped me the most is that when I’m having those harder days, if I have a photo album of either times when I felt well and I was able to do something, pictures of my friends, my family, my dog, pretty sunsets, anything that I found online that made me laugh, pretty much any positive, happy photo or video I put into one photo album. So on those harder days, I can just open that, scroll through it, and it always makes me feel better because I found that for me, most of my hacks have had to do with the emotional aspects of Lyme, and just how to kind of combat all of those feelings as now an adult. So, happy Lyme Disease Awareness Month.”