TV Chick talks with Candice Accola

Candice Accola talks Tyler, Matt, and much more in this interview with TheTVChick. I decided to quote her awesome comment about Lyme Disease and Show me Your Mumu.

"And I know you have a charity that’s very close to your heart. You are going to be working with Show Me Your Mumu to raise awareness of Lyme Disease. Can you talk a little bit more about that and how you got involved and how fans can get involved?
I got involved with the charity Turn The Corner. It focuses on raising awareness of Lyme Disease but most importantly the funds that are raised go towards researching Lyme Disease, how to properly diagnose it quicker and how to basically navigate around the disease itself. It’s varies depending on the tick that bites you. So there’s not really one strain of it, there’s multiple strains and a friend of mine that I grew up with, Teri Raser — I went off to LA, and she went off to college and we met up, and a couple of months later, we were texting and she was like “I got sick. I had to go home.” And I was like “well, that’s weird.” And a year later, she’s still sick and then another year later and another year later, and then eventually [she] was officially diagnosed and by that time — it was in its chronic form — with Lyme Disease. And I didn’t really know what that meant. So I sat up one night on my computer and started YouTube-ing and Googling, and really kind of learning as much as I could about a disease that doesn’t really have that many answers. So I’m not one to attach myself to something that I don’t really feel attached to, and this is something — there aren’t a lot of people that know about it. I really wanted to not only educate others, but most importantly, continue to educate myself because I just felt so ignorant to have someone I care about so much say “I have Lyme Disease.” And there’s this whole community of people that suffer with Lyme, and there’s so much going on within the medical community, that it needs to be talked about more. So I’m slowly starting to develop a partnership with Turn the Corner, the more that my schedule allows me to. My birthday’s in May, and May is also Lyme Disease awareness month. My friend who has the Show Me Your Mumu Line, she found this beautiful print, that has just enough green, and all the profits for the Mumu Shawl will go straight to Turn the Corner and my friend Teri named it. Her nickname in our family is “bird.” So it’s the Bird Mumu. So I’m really excited and it will be up on the website, showmeyourmumu.com, the first week of May." Read the rest at TheTVChick