How Living With Hashimoto’s & Lyme Disease Taught Me To Stand Up For Myself — And My Health

February 16, 2020
The doctor wasn’t listening to me. He didn’t care that I was suffering. “I’m so sorry, I thought we were doing the right thing,” my dad said, clearly dealing with a lot of guilt. It wasn’t easy hearing those words, especially considering I was only 18 at the time. At this point in my life, I had been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis for five years — and had just been told I had a very serious case of Lyme disease, too.

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Rose Duesterwald

Rose Duesterwald

Rose became acquainted with Patient Worthy after her husband was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) six years ago. During this period of partial remission, Rose researched investigational drugs to be prepared in the event of a relapse. Her husband died February 12, 2021 with a rare and unexplained occurrence of liver cancer possibly unrelated to AML.

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