Touched By Lyme
By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
This blog has several goals. First, to explore the personal side of Lyme disease and how it affects individuals and families. Second, to highlight useful information for people seeking answers about this complicated illness. Third, to help foster a sense of unity and shared purpose among the many diverse members of the Lyme community. Dorothy, who serves as President of LymeDisease.org, has a family member with Lyme disease. She is co-author of a book called When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Teenager shows world her vocal and physical tics caused by Lyme disease
Iowa girl creates a YouTube video to help people realize how serious Lyme can be.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme, MCS & that important rite of passage
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities can offer unique challenges to someone seeking a driver’s license.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Are you a Minnesota Lyme patient? If so, MLA needs you.
Minnesota Lyme Association seeks feedback from state residents who have had long-term antibiotics for Lyme disease.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Young advocate helps educate her community
An 11-year-old Lyme survivor shares her story to help others.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Unraveling the Lyme-autism connection
This doctor finds about 20% of her autistic patients turn out to have Lyme disease, and for many of them, Lyme treatment helps their autism…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Portraits of Lyme with words and pictures
(Guest blog) Using art and writing to help ourselves and each other.
TOUCHED BY LYME: How to exercise when you’re too sick to exercise
(Book review) “Sunlight Chair Yoga” teaches adaptive techniques for the ill and injured.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Serving up IDSA Facebook comments to Congress
“The Devastation of Lives and Lies: Those with Lyme disease and related chronic infections respond to the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA’s) request…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Bringing Lyme message to college students
The Lyme documentary Under Our Skin will be shown March 4 at Santa Clara University. The event, “Lyme Disease, a ticking time bomb,” will include…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme disease awareness through figure skating
A Minnesota ice skater’s artistic video teaches people about Lyme and promotes petition to remove the IDSA guidelines
TOUCHED BY LYME: How other pathogens complicate chronic Lyme treatment
Dr. Christine Green will discuss coinfections at LymeDisease.org’s upcoming conference, “Getting Healthy Again: Using Integrative Medicine to Heal from Lyme Disease,” in San Francisco January…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Teaching families how to protect themselves from tick diseases
This RN and Lyme survivor uses puppets, songs, and positive messages to teach children—and adults—how to prevent tick-borne illness