KITCHENER, Ontario: Hoping for relief from medical ‘nightmare’
KITCHENER — Mariah Reichert says Lyme disease has stolen away years from her young life. She’s hoping, with the help of a few strangers, she can start to get it back.
The Kitchener-raised woman has been living with the debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease since before she was a teenager. Today, she’s putting her hope in an experimental treatment in Germany — but after years of paying out of pocket in failed attempts to treat their daughter, her family can’t afford it on their own.
The problem is Reichert has never been diagnosed with Lyme disease in Ontario. A specialist in Buffalo made that determination,
