Family still holding out hope for a cure
By ETHAN SHOREY, Breeze Online News Editor
CUMBERLAND – A year ago, the Geraghty family was preparing for the holidays just like they always did, unaware of the deep, life-altering trouble to come.
On Dec. 2, 2013, David Geraghty began feeling discomfort in his diaphragm. By the first week of January, […]
If you’ve ever had anyone tell you they have Lyme disease and you’ve answered, “What disease?” you’re not alone. Though this disease is “the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States,” according to the CDC, relatively few people know anything about it or even realize it exists.
On a more personal level, even when you do know […]
Read the personal story of yet another brave Lyme Warrior willing to tell her story and stand up to spread awareness.
“Lyme isn’t something we consider in moments of bad health, and it isn’t something that is readily picked up on by the NHS. So, please do bear that in mind if you forget your friend’s […]
Current trends affecting Lyme patients, their LLMDs and the Federal Bill. What you can do to help.
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Lyme Disease advocate and patient Alicia Healy shares the experience of her 15-year battle with Lyme disease, co-infections, and her recovery. Alicia chronicles the struggles of navigating childhood and young adulthood with mysterious symptoms and overcoming them.
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Four summers ago, Carole Flaherty was training for a long-distance hike across the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains. The retired landscape contractor from Healdsburg was routinely walking 25 miles a day — until strange pains stopped her in her tracks.
Fatigue, abdominal aches and a burning sensation on her right side left her bedridden on […]
Winnipegger Megan Duczminski will never forget the moment when, lying in a hospital bed and waiting for treatment, she overheard residents outside her door talking about her case.
They were laughing.
“They were saying ‘Oh, she thinks she has this symptom, too? And she thinks she has that symptom, seriously?'” she said. “They were ridiculing me.”
Duczminski, 29, said […]
Dr. Jernigan will discuss options outside of antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme symptoms and how it is not necessary for those with Lyme disease to suffer for years. He will also give his opinion on Herx reactions and how he believes patients do not have to get worse before they get better.
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Tick larvae encased in a 15- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains oldest known ancestor of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Veterinary professionals are no strangers to the stealthy spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi—but the discovery of spirochete-like cells in a 15-million-year-old amber-encased tick reveals that the bacteria have been lurking around long before humans walked the Earth.
The discovery was […]
“Five reasons to not totally panic about ticks and Lyme disease”
Find the Article here: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/five-reasons-not-totally-panic-about-ticks-and-lyme-disease
With suggestions and statements like “Lyme disease is generally easy to treat” and “It’s all overkill,” the article written by Meghan Rosen gained a lot of attention from the Lyme community. She outlined her experience with a tick that she found on the […]
