Rocking away, part of phase, while her husband, Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas, done in Chula Vista, Ca, Marisol Thomas could have showed up a picture that is gorgeous of and joy as she sang along towards the band’s hit, “Disease.” But behind the smiles, the scene had been an uncommon moment of reprieve from the debilitating 14-year fight an illness which Rob claims has transformed their viewpoint on life, robbed any ideas of experiencing more kiddies and “inhabited” components of his spouse.

“It’s crazy just how normal one thing unusual may become,” Rob tells ET, during an unusual meeting with Marisol to promote international Lyme Alliance’s third Annual New York Gala — where he can perform and Marisol is definitely an honoree on her behalf advocacy work with Lyme as well as other tick-borne conditions. “It’s like if an individual day you woke up and there clearly was an alien surviving in home in addition to very first number of months you’d be f**king freaked down, but before long you’d title it and it would you should be here. This illness was such as this weird alien that’s moved into our life and inhabited my wife. Sometimes she’s not herself. Viewing anyone closest that is you’re be somebody except that herself is really hard.”

The couple has grappled with Marisol’s wellness battles for over a ten years, during which she visited countless experts, eager for accurate diagnosis and therapy.

Showing the signs of autoimmune condition, she had been told she had Multiple Sclerosis 1 minute, Lupus the following and also at one point, while lying in a medical center for days, she believed she had pancreatic cancer. Rob frustratingly recalls one expert checking out the chance for Lyme (a illness that is potentially fatal by ticks) years back, however the typical diagnostic test is inaccurate over fifty percent the full time.Continue reading→