ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Most of us have experienced some kind of medical issue, and for one Roanoke woman, it was a medical journey that kept coming to a dead end. It’s a diagnosis that affected roughly 90,000 people in the U.S. last year.
Chronic Lyme disease is a never-ending battle being fought by Valinda Edwards. “The world tried to take me out. Lyme disease tried to take me out, and I’m still here,” Edwards said.
18 years later, Edwards is thankful to be alive to share her story that started in 2007, when she started feeling symptoms after she returned from her honeymoon trip to Jamaica…