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This journal is about my attempt to comprehend Lyme, a controversial and poorly understood illness. It’s about my quest to regain something of my life from a disease that has striped me of almost everything I hold dear. Mostly, this journal is about hope. I hope that by sharing my experience and what I learn about this illness with you that perhaps one day this illness will be understood properly so that other people won’t have to go through this sort of suffering on account of Lyme.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

CBC on Lyme

CBC video on the real number of Lyme cases in BC
Posted by raven at 9:43 AM
Labels: Awareness, Controversy, Diagnosis, Links, Lyme, Research

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Welcome

If this is your first time visiting this blog, welcome. To learn more about me (the happy me), check out my regular blog: Trampled by Geese.

For an introduction for my adventures with Lyme, I think you’ll find these posts useful: Lyme in two parts: One and two.

If you are a friend or family member that I interact with in real life, please read this (especially number 4). Hopefully it will help you understand the little things that you can do to help.

Also, here is a post about Some Things That Have Helped my Lyme.

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What I write on this blog is my experience. I’m doing my best to understand what is happening to me and I don’t mind sharing it with you. Much of what I state here is my own opinion. I do my best to cite my sources and to represent the issue as honestly as I can. I will make mistakes, its part of being human.

If you feel that I have misrepresented something, please be kind. I’m sharing a very sensitive part of my life here, I ask you to respect that. If you wish to disagree with something, do your research first, cite your sources, and do not post in anger. I reserve the rights to remove any comments that are hateful, spiteful, or any way harmful. If you wish to state a well formatted difference of opinion regarding facts, I’m good with that. Without discussion we won’t make any progress. Just remember, argue against the facts only and city your source. I am a well trained philosopher who can detect a bad argument from half a world away and am not afraid to call you on it.

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (3)
    • ►  April (2)
      • BBC article: new test for Lyme
      • Teasel Tea treatment for Lyme (try saying that fiv...
    • ►  January (1)
      • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  • ▼  2010 (26)
    • ►  November (3)
      • an idea
      • Seeking
      • Soon
    • ▼  October (3)
      • CBC on Lyme
      • Some things that have helped my Lyme
      • people - Sartre was right
    • ►  June (1)
      • Apparently, everything is Lyme
    • ►  May (3)
      • Positive support
      • a prickly interaction and more thoughts on Teasel ...
      • updates
    • ►  April (8)
      • Teasel (it's English for Kardenworzel, I think)
      • Lyme Support in Victoria?
      • May is the month for Lyme
      • Chemical overload
      • Lyme decisions
      • Acupuncture and Lyme
      • Things I would like to know about the Marshall Pro...
      • Marshall Protocol again and other stuff
    • ►  February (2)
      • Hope
      • Vertigo
    • ►  January (6)
      • Anti-inflammatory diet reminder
      • Scent Sucks
      • Tip for repelling ticks
      • Slipping?
      • Christmas in the ER
      • Marshall Protocol, Lyme and my presonal progress
  • ►  2009 (36)
    • ►  November (2)
      • insomnia and Lyme
      • Hi all, Still alive. Actually, I'm doing well comp...
    • ►  July (1)
      • hmmm...
    • ►  June (3)
      • Lyme Temper
      • Force of will is a force of habit
      • Hot and not sweaty
    • ►  May (1)
      • Single days
    • ►  April (3)
      • small steps, big victories
      • They never told me there would be days like this
      • April trip to Seattle
    • ►  March (3)
      • A tick
      • Joints
      • photocatalytic oxidation system?
    • ►  February (8)
      • Lymeing with Chemical Sensitivities
      • Dirty Electricity
      • A bumpy Herxheimer
      • What I've been up to
      • Internet-less herx
      • Pills
      • The Lyme controversy continues
      • I just got probiotics up my nose
    • ►  January (15)
  • ►  2008 (81)
    • ►  December (21)
    • ►  November (25)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (16)

Labels

  • "snake oil?" (15)
  • "Under our Skin" (3)
  • Awareness (9)
  • Cleaning (18)
  • Controversy (30)
  • Despair (38)
  • Diagnosis (29)
  • Diet (25)
  • Epidemiology (11)
  • Friends (30)
  • Gender (3)
  • Herxheimer (20)
  • History (12)
  • Hobbies (22)
  • Holistic medicine (43)
  • Hope (52)
  • Links (30)
  • Lyme (127)
  • Money (30)
  • Musings (63)
  • My life (93)
  • Physicians (35)
  • Rants (4)
  • Research (33)
  • Support (4)
  • Symptoms (79)
  • Ticks (7)
  • Treatment (79)

Please Donate to Lyme

Because of the current situation in BC, I am unable to receive the care I need to conquer Lyme. At the moment I must travel to the USA to see a specialist and pay for (most of) my Lyme related medical costs from my own pocket at a price of $80,000.00 Canadian. That’s quite a lot for a starving student like myself. Anything will help.

Perhaps one day this disease will be better recognized by the local health authorities so that people can receive the treatment they need. Until then, please don’t get bitten by any ticks. Thank you.

Lyme Links

  • A Lyme Disease Journal
  • Bite Me
  • Can Lyme
  • Dr. Ernie Murakami
  • Life After Lyme Disease
  • Literati with Lyme
  • Lyme Borreliosis in BC
  • Lyme Bytes
  • Lyme Disease Association
  • Lyme Disease Research Studies
  • Lyme Disease Symptoms, &c.
  • Lyme Strategies
  • Public Health Agency of Canada: Lyme Disease
  • Renee's Reflections
  • Soylent Green Lyme Blog
  • The Lyme Light
  • Trampled by Fleece
  • Turn the Corner Foundation

Three Wishes

  • More research into Lyme so that we can have a better understanding of how to diagnose and treat this multifaceted illness.
  • Better diagnosis techniques. Train physicians to recognize what Lyme is and how it can present and a more accurate way of testing for Lyme and co-infections.
  • Better treatment procedures. It’s all well and good telling someone that they are ill, but when you deny them access to treatment, for any reason, you push them down into a deeper circle of hell. That’s just not right.

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