Lyme Blog Posts
Latest issue of The Lyme Times looks at disability denials for Lyme
The new issue of The Lyme Times has been mailed to members of LymeDisease.org. Here are some of the topics covered: –What to do when…
TOUCHED BY LYME: “Why so long to diagnose?” Why, indeed?
SELF magazine recently wrote about “Real Housewife” Yolanda Hadid (formerly Foster) and her upcoming book Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Lyme disease and shared medical decision making in guidelines
Did you know that a goal of Healthy People 2020, a collaborative effort of a number of federal agencies, is to increase shared decision-making in healthcare?…
TOUCHED BY LYME: A mom appreciates Ally Hilfiger for “getting it”
Yesterday, I posted my review of Ally Hilfiger’s book Bite me: How Lyme disease stole my childhood, made me crazy, and almost killed me. Today, Lisa Kilion,…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Ally Hilfiger’s stolen childhood
When Ally Hilfiger is about seven years old, she is bitten by a tick. However, nobody connects that fact to the series of changes that…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Docu-drama rings alarm about Lyme epidemic
In the summer of 2013, 17-year-old Joseph Elone from Poughkeepsie, NY, returned from two weeks at a summer camp feeling lousy, with a cough, a…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Leprosy drug shows promise for Lyme treatment
I was privileged to attend the Lyme disease conference at Binghamton University in New York State on Saturday May 7. All the speakers were excellent…
Using all tools available to help combat Lyme
This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Mike Hessler In the summer of 2008, I…
When life with Lyme brings more questions than answers
This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Catherine Fox Five years ago, I was enjoying…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Spreading the word about Lyme disease in Maine
Wiscasset, Maine was quite the place to be yesterday. More than 325 people turned out at the Second Annual Midcoast Lyme Disease Support and Education Conference…
Hitting Musical Notes through the Fog
By Sandi Bohle This is the fourth in a series of posts about how many in the Lyme community turn to the arts as a…
LymeDisease.org launches interactive Lyme Disease Symptom Checklist
The number one problem that Lyme disease patients report is that it takes so long for them to be diagnosed—two or more years in most…