NEW GLASGOW – A benefit to raise funds for an 11-year-old girl with Lyme disease brought in $1,300.
The benefit was held to help Sutherlands River resident Chelsey Livingston, who was diagnosed in April with Lyme disease.
It’s believed she was bitten by a tick in Borden, Ont., when she was just 2 1/2 years old, but Canadian tests are inaccurate and doctors did not believe her lingering illness was caused by Lyme disease.
It wasn’t until Chelsey saw a naturopath and had further tests done that she was diagnosed and sent to a specialist in Port Hawkesbury.
The girl’s medications cost more than $800 a month and none of the costs are covered by insurance, so the community came together to hold a benefit to help the family, which has been struggling since Chelsey’s diagnosis.
“It was really nice – people came and dropped off donations,” said her mother, Angela Rector.
