Nicole Malachowski

Don't end up like me.

Don't end up like me.

And I think education-wise, I've been very involved in the patient advocacy space and very much a pain in the butt to the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs on tick-borne illnesses since then. I think fundamentally, Krusty, there was a difference in training because Army and Marines on the ground, rooting around.

And I think education-wise, I've been very involved in the patient advocacy space and very much a pain in the butt to the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs on tick-borne illnesses since then. I think fundamentally, Krusty, there was a difference in training because Army and Marines on the ground, rooting around.

And I think education-wise, I've been very involved in the patient advocacy space and very much a pain in the butt to the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs on tick-borne illnesses since then. I think fundamentally, Krusty, there was a difference in training because Army and Marines on the ground, rooting around.

In all seriousness, I do take the Department of Defense and VA to task on this. I serve as an official ambassador and mentor still to this day with the official Air Force Wounded Warrior Program. In fact, I'm doing an Air Force Wounded Warrior Program event this upcoming weekend.

In all seriousness, I do take the Department of Defense and VA to task on this. I serve as an official ambassador and mentor still to this day with the official Air Force Wounded Warrior Program. In fact, I'm doing an Air Force Wounded Warrior Program event this upcoming weekend.

In all seriousness, I do take the Department of Defense and VA to task on this. I serve as an official ambassador and mentor still to this day with the official Air Force Wounded Warrior Program. In fact, I'm doing an Air Force Wounded Warrior Program event this upcoming weekend.

And there isn't a month that goes by that I am not helping an airman who is being medically retired or evaluated for tick-borne illness.

And there isn't a month that goes by that I am not helping an airman who is being medically retired or evaluated for tick-borne illness.

And there isn't a month that goes by that I am not helping an airman who is being medically retired or evaluated for tick-borne illness.

Wow. What cohort of the American public... is exposed to more global vectors than our service members, you know, by nature, by default, the veterans they become, and the military family station around the world.

Wow. What cohort of the American public... is exposed to more global vectors than our service members, you know, by nature, by default, the veterans they become, and the military family station around the world.

Wow. What cohort of the American public... is exposed to more global vectors than our service members, you know, by nature, by default, the veterans they become, and the military family station around the world.

There is absolutely no excuse for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to not be leaders in this space as far as education, awareness, diagnostics, and treatment. And in fact, when I was, I just read you my form, 100% unfit for duty due to chronic systemic tick-borne illness, It took me four years of fighting. Yeah, it's going to get me emotional.

There is absolutely no excuse for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to not be leaders in this space as far as education, awareness, diagnostics, and treatment. And in fact, when I was, I just read you my form, 100% unfit for duty due to chronic systemic tick-borne illness, It took me four years of fighting. Yeah, it's going to get me emotional.

There is absolutely no excuse for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to not be leaders in this space as far as education, awareness, diagnostics, and treatment. And in fact, when I was, I just read you my form, 100% unfit for duty due to chronic systemic tick-borne illness, It took me four years of fighting. Yeah, it's going to get me emotional.

Four years for the VA to recognize the very thing that I was found 100 percent unfit for duty for to the point that they didn't have a code for what I had. So I was medically retired with a code that the VA wasn't prepared to receive. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. I can say I took that to task. And with the Wounded Warrior Program out of Florida, we were able to get Congress to add in those codes.

Four years for the VA to recognize the very thing that I was found 100 percent unfit for duty for to the point that they didn't have a code for what I had. So I was medically retired with a code that the VA wasn't prepared to receive. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. I can say I took that to task. And with the Wounded Warrior Program out of Florida, we were able to get Congress to add in those codes.

Four years for the VA to recognize the very thing that I was found 100 percent unfit for duty for to the point that they didn't have a code for what I had. So I was medically retired with a code that the VA wasn't prepared to receive. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. I can say I took that to task. And with the Wounded Warrior Program out of Florida, we were able to get Congress to add in those codes.