Since beating Lyme disease, singer Avril Lavigne wants to take the positives from everything in her life and her battle with
the illness has even inspired her to
write a Christmas album.
The 30-year-old contracted the illness, which is caused by tick bites and causes pain in the sufferer’s skin and joints and problems with the heart and nervous
system, last October and was left
bedridden for five months.
Lavigne is now ‘80 percent’ back to full health and insists the traumatic illness has given her a new focus in life.
“I really want to enjoy everything, because life is good. I think there are a lot of positives with it. I’m definitely choosing to view it that way,” she told Billboard magazine.
