Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease (First edition)

In early 2011, just after her second wedding, Yolanda fell ill.

From an outspoken, multi-tasking social butterfly she descended into a thick, paralysing cocoon.

She lost the ability to read, write, or even watch television; suffered from severe fatigue, intense anxiety, insomnia, joint pain, Bell's palsy, migraines, and intermittent total loss of eyesight.

From inside this hell she sought answers that never seemed to come, and spoke to specialist after specialist who were all left baffled.

Her perfect marriage became strained; the precious family that she had always supported was breaking; her life was coming apart at the seams.

Then after months of unimaginable suffering, Yoldana Foster was diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Yet her suffering still grew, and doctors continued to dismiss her pain.

That was when Yolanda realised she had a mission - to user her new platform to bring relief to other sufferers being misdiagnosed.