On the Road with Lyme and U2 (Dana's look back)
Thursday, May 15th, 2014Looking back at my time on tour with U2, filming Under Our Skin, and getting in with Dr Klinghardt for treatment, I never let Lyme stop me. In 2005, a year after FINALLY being properly diagnosed... Lyme wasn't going away, but my dreams were. I set out to change that.
July 27, 2005:
After almost a year to the date of being unemployed, I decide to take the job on tour with U2. Here's my answer to the email asking about my availability... (click on the letter to zoom in)
September 13, 2005:
Four days on the road with U2 and feeling the shock... we're not in Kansas anymore!
Oh how truly "unglamorous" touring can be... (click on the letter to zoom in)
November 2, 2005:
Mid-way through the U2 tour and the pain is as loud as the music!!!
Reaching out to my ONE Lyme friend, Shelley... (click on the letter to zoom in)
November 22, 2005:
Email to Andy Abrahams Wilson after our first interview for UNDER OUR SKIN.
(and the band's priest prays for me)...
November 30, 2005:
My plea to get into see Dr. Klinghardt so I can go around the world with U2. Yes, I dream big.
(click on the letter to zoom in)
January 1, 2006:
Happy New Year's!
Coming home from U2... now what?
July 18, 2006:
8 months after my request, I finally get an appointment to see Dr. Klinghardt!
Years of recovery.
June 15, 2013:
7 years later, I spend a week at a meditation retreat praying for my partners
and allies for my next adventure.
Upon my return home, I am introduced to Brent Martin (through email),
and Lyme Less Live More is born!
The Road happened, The Film happened, Klinghardt happened, and so many more amazing surprises, and NOW a Lyme Less Live More community is HAPPENING!
I share more of these events in my talk "The Fight vs Deep Surrender" on Lyme Less Live More and ways I learned that the present moment is our key to health and life.
Do not miss a day in your life... despite the suffering.
My life looks nothing like I imagined it, but somehow it's more fulfilling
than I could have ever dreamed.
Thank you for being with me.
xo
Dana Walsh
Written by Dana Walsh
| 8 Comments Posted in Lyme Less Live More, Uncategorized, Under Our Skin
Dana Walsh (featured in the Lyme documentary UNDER OUR SKIN) and Brent Martin, founders of Lyme Less Live More, identified a giant gap while recovering from Lyme Disease --
Really lovely. So encouraging! I have been wondering how you dealt with tour, got into Klinghardt and how Lyme Less began! Thank you! You've manifested so much!
Keep rockin' it sweetheart!
What a touching story of your journey! My how you have made lemonade out of lemons! So proud to have known you and to see you inspiring so many to live healthy with or without Lyme!!! You have always been a teacher and it's so cool to see how you have incorporated your gifts into helping others. Many blessings to you! Sorry for that crap when I was your roomie my first time in SF. Must connect again. Best, Hugs from
Texas - Cara
Thank you for the inside peek into life on the road with U2 and how you dealt with your illness during that time. I have been a huge U2 fan since day 1 as well, so it seems like a dream come true to have been able to tour with them. Obviously it was not all glamor and glitz for you!
It is my wish that Bono and the gang will get on board with Lyme, like they have done with AIDS, RED and ONE. It could add so much to getting Lyme the recognition it deserves to further research.
I was told 4 yrs. ago that Dr. Klinghardt was not seeing patients anymore. Is it possible that I misunderstood? Does he still see you? Is there still a waiting list? I have been sick for 8 yrs. I have had an IV into my heart for antbx. and shots and pills..... still sick. You are my idol. You are an inspirational role model of hope. Thank you for being you, Nancy Scates RN
Interested to see if you lost and or regained any physical strength.
brief history
April 2000 Optic Neuritis
Spring 2001 : Expected future health challenges, so I spent two months in Himalayas
April 2004 : 1st MS diagnosis
May 2006: Disability retirement
Aug 2006 : 2nd MS diagnosis
March 2008 : 1st Lyme diagnosis
stopped driving. currently use a scooter to move around
REALLY REALLY looking for way to get my life back!
Hi Eric,
Just another member of the LLLM community here….your comment caught me. I'm so sorry for all of your suffering. I wish there was a smoking gun as to why we stay sick despite treatment (I've had it for 16 years), and also wish there was that magic bullet of sustained relief….but just wanted to tell you, I used to not be able to stand for longer than 30 seconds without searing pain; now, on good days, I can walk for 45 minutes. I guess we just have to dig deeper, just when we think we've already hit bottom…Im praying that you will turn a corner soon!
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