Part 14 of My Lyme Story is about Epic’s arrival in Canada, the first barn that felt wrong, a winter that hit hard (just like 2026), depression creeping in, and the dawn escape on Epic—bareback, blanket still on, crawling through snowbanks to get free. It was the winter of 2001. Lyme was fresh, the culture shock in Canada was real, and the barn drama pushed me to my limit.

But Epic and the snow gave me back some power…