u/RealLuxTempo

I got this text alert:

Yavapai Sheriff Alert: 07/04/2026 2:45 HRS WILDFIRE near YARNELL This is a GO Order for YCU-2408, YCU-2414. EVACUATE NOW. Shelter location:PRESCOTT VALLEY FAIRGORUNDS. Info:
https://go.genasys.com/teybyz

Sounds pretty serious. I’d like to try to help. Looked on the Red Cross website for any local info. No luck. Does anyone know who to contact to help out if they need volunteers? Maybe I’ll just show up at the fairgrounds. I feel bad for these folks. Anyone ever help out in one of these fire evacuation situations? This is new to me.

EDIT: Latest alert- They are no longer directing evacuees to PV Fairgrounds but just towards Prescott in general.

This is just something that happened to me a couple days ago. I’m not looking for any help or advice. I would just like to share.

I meet with a psychiatrist online every few months for medication management - generalized anxiety and depression. She’s not my therapist but she will ask me how I’m doing. I told her I was doing okay except for a Lyme flare up from a root canal. I posted about that here too. I expected to get the blank stare or the looking at me like I had a third eye thing. Instead, she leaned in and was engaged in what I was saying. She had some knowledge of Lyme disease and was genuinely interested in my experience.

I said to her that she seemed to know about Lyme. She told me that she’s taking a functional medicine class because she’s seeing a lot of PANS/PANDAS particularly in children and it’s concerning and she’s trying to get some knowledge. Her class is currently doing a pretty comprehensive study of Lyme disease, taught by two LLMDs.

We spent the next 20 minutes talking about Lyme in general and my Lyme journey. I learned some stuff from her and vice versa.

After signing off, I felt so good mentally and emotionally. I realized how amazing it was to speak to a professional about this complex and confounding disease that changed the course of my life and have them listen and ask more questions and validate my experience. Not one medical professional ever did that when I was deep in my sickness.
It was one of the most lonely and isolating times of my life. Had just one of them shown just a smidgen of what that psychiatrist showed to me, I wouldn’t have spent so much time afraid, sick, ashamed and questioning my sanity.

Anyway just want to share this experience. It gave me hope.

I’ve been feeling so awful for about a week. I couldn’t figure that it out. Where I live it’s been really super windy and the allergens are blowing around like crazy. Thought maybe it was that. I didn’t even consider a Lyme flare up. My flare ups are almost always mold or stress related. And then this morning at 5am while I was laying there wide awake from joint pain, an almost migraine headache, both chills and sweats on and off, I wondered if the root canal I had last week might be the culprit. Yep! It’s a thing. This is the first major dental work I’ve had since getting my Lyme and CO’s under control. The flare up started right after the procedure. Turns out a root canal can wake up the nasty spirochetes that many times will lay dormant in the gums and teeth areas. A microscopic hideout, if you will. It’s been awful but at least I know what it is.

This too will pass. But I’m going to be doing infrared saunas for awhile.

Be careful with dental work. Even though I’m not sure what precautions can be taken to lessen or mitigate a Lyme flare up from a root canal. But I’m certainly going to research possible remedies.