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'I Can Push Myself': Chambersburg Volleyball Player Battles Lyme Disease, Concussions 

By all accounts, Raelyn Johnson's story is as of now imperative. 안전놀이터

She began playing serious volleyball in seventh grade, and after two years, she hopped directly onto the varsity group at Chambersburg as a green bean. Her prosperity proceeded as she was named a Mid-Penn gathering top pick in her lesser year. 

Yet, underneath the surface, her story turns out to be considerably really convincing. 

In eighth grade, Johnson was determined to have Lyme illness and Babesiosis, the two conditions that are communicated through ticks. At that point, the aggravation she was suffering was excessively unbearable such that she realized something was off-base. 

"I was having genuinely horrendous migraines and neck agony, and it sincerely got so terrible that I couldn't move, so I needed to go to the clinic, and I was conceded for like seven days," Johnson said. 

At the point when she got out, her dad, Craig, realized that her life would change, since he went through a similar interaction. 

Craig was determined to have Lyme seven years sooner, so Raelyn was excessively youthful to truly comprehend around then. 

"She was a lot more modest when I went through this stuff so I couldn't say whether she recollected a lot of it," Craig Johnson said. "In any case, as you can envision for a youthful teen, they're simply attempting to get a handle on the world. So it was an intense. It was an intense change." 

Raelyn needed to change the manner in which she ate. She needed to change the manner in which she worked out, and most remarkably, she needed to change the manner in which she played games. 

At that point, she was playing club volleyball and softball, alongside center school volleyball. It incurred significant damage. 

"I was much more drained," Johnson said. "I was regularly exhausted, and I'd get migraines actually effectively so it was significantly harder on my body on the grounds that my invulnerable framework was attempting to fend this off while doing sports. I required more hydration, more rest, stuff like that." 

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In 10th grade, she was all the while doing all that, in addition to secondary school softball and bouncing right to varsity volleyball. 

She realized that she expected to make a stride back, in light of the fact that she couldn't say whether she could play by any means. 

"I couldn't say whether I was truly going to have the option to return to where I was," Johnson said. "I needed to take off for such a long time since I couldn't do anything. However at that point, when I began improving, I resembled, 'No, I can propel myself. I can do it.'" 

She in the end zeroed in the entirety of her endeavors on volleyball, since that was her obsession. 

"We've had those discussions [about stopping] before, however she's strong, she's driven, she comprehended that the measure of exercises she was doing was going to need to consolidate, yet she would not like to surrender everything all together," Craig Johnson said. 

Her daily schedule previously, then after the fact matches needed to change. She required more rest. She took medication, utilized oils, whatever she could to get her body right.