Connie Strasheim

Ms. Connie Strasheim is a medical researcher and writer. Formerly a medical interpreter for Spanish-speaking clients and a Flight Attendant, she became involved in medical research and writing when she became sick with chronic Lyme disease in 2004, and realized that not enough information on it had been published. In 2006, she started a blog called Lyme Bytes (http://www.lymebytes.blogspot.com) and began sharing the results of her research, as well as what her own Lyme journey had taught her about surviving chronic illness. In 2008, she published her first book, The Lyme Disease Survival Guide: Physical, Lifestyle and Emotional Strategies for Healing. In 2009, still dissatisfied with the paucity of published information from the professionals who treat Lyme, she interviewed thirteen “Lyme-literate” doctors and compiled their information in a second book entitled, Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment: Thirteen Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies.”