Ms. Smith will present current Lyme Disease issues to the WIG conference in hopes to help educate and benefit state legislators across the country in their decision making.
“LDA President Pat Smith has been invited by the Women In Government Foundation, Inc. (WIG) topeak at its 17th Annual Southern & 18th Annual Eastern Regional Conference (9/29-10/1) […]
Susan Green, legislative counsel for NatCapLyme, talks about her experience with Lyme disease. She says she tested negative for Lyme four times before finally testing positive the fifth time.
“After all this, were his other doctors finally in agreement that he had Lyme?
Not at all. I told them what I thought was going on and they said they would not treat him because it wasn’t standard and that he didn’t have a history of a Lyme rash or a positive Lyme antibody test. I […]
The daughter of US fashion kingpin Tommy Hilfiger says Lyme disease left her living ‘like an 80-year-old woman’ after doctors failed to discover she had the debilitating illness for 14 years.
Ally Hilfiger is understood to have contracted the disease, which is carried and spread by ticks, when she was seven-years-old.
However, she claims she wasn’t diagnosed […]
Three people in the Northeast who abruptly died in the past 13 months had an undetected heart inflammation caused by Lyme disease, according to a federal study that suggests death from the deer tick-borne bacteria is more common than previously thought.
The study was prompted by a tissue bank doctor’s discovery of an odd pattern of […]
One mother’s warning has gone viral after spotting a rash on her baby’s foot, that turned out to be Lyme disease.
Mum to little Paisley, Mandy Osmack posted snaps of her daughter’s leg with a message to other parents, warning them of the dangers of leaving Lyme disease untreated.
Her post, which quickly went viral, was originally […]
“PASSIONATE bodyboarder Bryce Nettle lost his battle with Lyme disease at age 25.
But, his mother Michelle — and four young West Australians — are aiming to make sure nobody has to suffer in silence like he did.
Ms Nettle wants the world to know that while the debilitating disease robbed her son of much of his […]
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 […]
‘I’ve been left devastated by Lyme disease’ – Victoria Derbyshire
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks.
It is estimated that up to 3,000 new cases of the disease are diagnosed in England and Wales each year.
Symptoms can include a distinctive rash, tiredness, muscle pain or headaches.
The disease can be treated […]
Jon Rothberg:
This is what Lyme disease feels like.
“It is only those infected with Lyme Disease that truly know how horrid this disease is. What it does to lives. The atrocity of knowing the truth that this chronic, debilitating, terminal illness is spreading and ignored by the agencies we pay to protect us.
In a society of […]
