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: IDSA gives its response to flood of Facebook postings
Last week, I contacted the IDSA’s media spokesperson for a reaction to the deluge of postings on the organization’s Facebook page. Here’s her response.
TOUCHED BY LYME: IDSA learns what it means to “go viral” on Facebook
IDSA gets an earful from Lyme patients on the organization’s Facebook page. But will they pay any attention?
TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) Thalia "growing stronger" after Lyme
Entertainment superstar Thalia talks about having Lyme disease in her recent memoir “Growing Stronger.”
TOUCHED BY LYME: Her son’s “nightmare of illness” led her to path of helping others heal from Lyme
Ann Corson, MD, one of the speakers at LymeDisease.org’s Jan. 22 Lyme patient conference in San Francisco, knows what the parents of her young Lyme…
TOUCHED BY LYME: "Night before Lyme Christmas"
A holiday poem by Bob Morgenstern
TOUCHED BY LYME: Those ticks on Tilden Park’s picnic tables
Researchers looking for nymphal ticks at this prominent northern California destination found them in unexpected places, including on and underneath wooden picnic tables and benches.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Working to get Lyme disease off the "most censored" list
When Lyme patient/advocate Liz Karkoff, of Tarrytown, NY, recently read that Lyme is one of the “Top 25” most censored news stories of 2011, she…
TOUCHED BY LYME: "Project Censored" lists Lyme disease epidemic as one of 2011's most under-reported stories
Every year, “Project Censored,” a news-monitoring research program affiliated with Sonoma State University in California, produces a Top-25 list of underreported news stories. These are…
TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) When yeast takes over your body
“The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity” offers a road map for getting candidiasis under control.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Important Lyme book now available free on Google Books
"Insights into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies," by Connie Strasheim, is now available for free reading on-line.
Out of the Woods: Healing Lyme disease–Body, Mind & Spirit
A personal memoir of recovering from Lyme disease.
TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) Nature’s Dirty Needle
A Lyme-literate nurse practitioner writes about chronic Lyme disease.