LymeSci Blog
Lonnie Marcum
is a Physical Therapist, with a dual degree in health administration and physical therapy. She has a passion for helping people heal from illness and injury by treating the whole body. She became active in the Lyme community after her daughter was diagnosed with tick-borne diseases in 2013. She now devotes much time to learning about Lyme and related conditions, and sharing that knowledge via social media. In addition, she has served as a member of the HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group: Tick Biology, Ecology, Control Subcommittee. Her blog, LymeSci, seeks to help patients understand the science of tick-borne diseases and new developments in research.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Caring for a child with Lyme disease
I was recently privileged to be interviewed by Cindy Kennedy, FNP, about the book I co-authored with Sandra Berenbaum, “When Your Child Has Lyme Disease:…
Designing an environment for those “displaced” by Lyme disease
by Sylvia Janicki On a balmy early-summer day in 2014, in the bucolic Mississippi countryside, I found a tick burrowed into the side of my…
Why Lyme disease news coverage falls way short
By David Michael Conner As so many people who live with Lyme disease will attest, just about everything Lyme related can be complex, difficult to…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Nelson Family Project spreads awareness of Lyme disease in Maine
Elizabeth Nelson, 22, has been sick since childhood, with a laundry list of symptoms that would come and go over the years. However, things really…
TOUCHED BY LYME: The NY Times and the question of a Lyme vaccine
The New York Times ran an article today under the headline: Lyme disease is spreading fast. Why isn’t there a vaccine? Most troubling to me…
Why do officials continue to deny the reality of gestational Lyme?
by Sue Burke Faber I’ll never forget a couple of years ago when our whole crazy Lyme journey began. I had been diagnosed here in…
Lyme, Mitochondria and the Power of the Heart
By Shona Curley I’m sure many of you Lyme Warriors know that Lyme disease, and really all chronic illness, is at heart a disease of…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: What Lyme disease treatments are most effective?
Wondering if medical marijuana is effective at controlling the pain associated with Lyme disease? How other patients are treating their fatigue and insomnia? Which treatments…
LYME SCI: Lyme has been found in all 50 states and is on the rise
Quest Diagnostics has released its findings from over six million Lyme disease lab tests taken over the last seven years. Quest’s report says Lyme has…
From wheelchair to walking–one woman’s Lyme disease story
By Tera Banks I became sick with Lyme in 2012. I was bitten by a mosquito in Melrose Park, Illinois, and shortly afterwards came down…
Battling Lyme disease with education and prevention
By Elizabeth Maloney, MD A recent article in the Minnesota Star-Tribune discussed one legislator’s struggle with Lyme disease (“Retiring legislator continues to serve by telling…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Why we care so strongly about a potential vaccine
I was recently contacted by a reporter for a national news organization. She was blunt: why is your organization so opposed to a vaccine for…