A woman who says she hasn't left the house since 2016 due to Lyme Disease hopes she "will get to live, rather than just exist, before I die." Tracey Weeks, 48, who lives near Taunton, Somerset, has been "mostly housebound since 1997" and is now at the stage where she cannot even attend medical appointments.
Heartbreakingly, she's had to miss milestones in her teenage daughter's life, as well as weddings, funerals, christenings, and seeing friends and family as she suffers chronic fatigue and cannot walk far.
She says she has to make peace with the world going on around her and says her story is 'not just hers' as there are many others in similar positions.
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