Bibliograph

Bite me, how Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me, Ally Hilfiger ; foreword by Tommy Hilfiger

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Bite me, how Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me, Ally Hilfiger ; foreword by Tommy Hilfiger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes webliographies (page 296)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bite me

Responsibility statement

Ally Hilfiger ; foreword by Tommy Hilfiger

Sub title

how Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me

Summary

Ally Hilfiger, daughter of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger, shares her 11 year struggle with misdiagnosis, mental warfare, and an eventual diagnosis and recovery from Lyme disease. Ally was at a breaking point when her father put her in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. They had seemingly exhausted all resources, but something was wrong. She had struggled since she was seven years old with uncomfortable symptoms that no doctor could explain, and was now pushed to a spiritual and mental emergency by the mysterious maladies plaguing her body, her own forms of self-medication with pot and alcohol, and the notoriety gained by producing and starring on one of the first reality shows, "Rich Girls. "After eleven years of unanswered questions, she found herself in a psych ward, where she learned that she, in fact, had Lyme disease. It was there that she began her journey to diagnosis and recovery after eleven years of misdiagnosis and physical pain

Table Of Contents

A Bite of Crazy -- Fashion Fairy Tale -- "Off to See the Wizard..." -- Sacred Heart and Growing Pains -- To Pee or Not to Pee -- Valium and Helicopters: "Ze Doctor Vil Zee You Now" -- The Green Lollipop Excuse -- Painting, Chanting, and Pitching Films to Famous Actors -- In Angels' Winds...and Handcuffed -- Deal with the Devil -- Wilfred and the Burrito Incident -- Turning to Judaism in a Karaoke Nightclub -- From the ER to Bungalow 8 -- Commencing Countdown, Engines On -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- The Purple Goddess -- Nights in White Satin -- The Battle Begins -- In the Blood -- Brain Fog, Herxing, and Don Hill's -- Dad, Light the Nag Champa -- Straight to the Heart -- Smelling Like Garlic and Loving the High -- Head, Shoulders, Knees and...Fingernails? -- Happy Birthday, Ally -- The German Protocol -- The Man All in Black and a Wide-Brimmed Hat -- East Meet West and Closes the Door -- Highway to Heaven -- Not at All What I Was Expecting

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