 Lyme disease, it hurts. It's scary. It makes me feel dizzy and my head hurts. She burst into this world like she was magical and never stopped, never slowed down since. When Pippa was seven years old, I got a call from the school nurse and the nurse said something's wrong with Pippa's eyes. Over the next few months, her health really started declining. And then one morning she woke up and she couldn't walk.