was summoned back to Teruel to defend the graveyard sector on 17 January —barely a week after the much needed break for its men, the 1st and the 2nd battalions were so exhausted that they refused to engage again in frontline combat, and the 4th battalion declined to relieve them when called to do so. Then the rebellion was harshly put down: On 20 January at dawn three sergeants and forty-three soldiers of the brigade were summarily executed by firing squad while other sixty members of the brigade awaited trial. On 21 January the fate of the brigade was sealed when an effort by the remaining and spent troops of the disgraced unit to take the strategic hill known as El Muletón ended in catastrophic failure. The Divisionnaturopathic practitioner in Provo who specializes in the disease, diagnosed Packer-Koons five years ago. Now, the former musician said she takes dozens of natural health supplements a day to mitigate her symptoms and estimates she has spent around $200,000 on her condition — first chasing a diagnosis and now looking for relief.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Singer-songwriter Emme Packer-Koons believes she may have been better able to pursue a music career had she been diagnosed earlier with Lyme disease. Packer-Koons said her days in her darkened home revolve around pain management, including taking dozens of pills and herbal and flower tinctures and smoothing topical treatments on her knees and joints to alleviate inflammation.

“From 5 a.m. to 1 in the morning, my life is devoted to medication