A man will be walking more than 200 miles to his girlfriend's home to raise money towards her treatment for rare Lyme Disease. Nathaniel Pells will trek from his home in Leeds to Bath where India Matthews lives. He will walk an average of 28.5miles a day for seven days to complete the fund-raising hike.
The couple met in 2016 while back-packing through southeast Asia. India, then 18, was bitten by an insect in a restaurant in Thailand and has been struggling with Lyme Disease ever since. The NHS lists Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks, reports LeedsLive.
India, now 24, tried to continue on her back-packing adventure after the bite, but she began experiencing fatigue, a stiff neck and fever. However, her health got worse and a month later her symptoms had worsened.
