Lyme Blog Posts
Hard-earned “Lyme education” shouldn’t go to waste
This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Sandi Bohle I’ve probably had Lyme disease…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Zika, Ebola, and Lyme—What Do They Have in Common?
I don’t know about you, but I have watched wide-eyed and breathless as the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health…
Dreams derailed by lack of Lyme diagnosis and treatment
This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. By Sandy Reyes Every young person envisions how their…
2500 people have enrolled in MyLymeData. Have you?
Nobody knows the exact number of people in the US who have chronic Lyme disease. Many experts believe that a fair guess would be between…
Why I signed up for MyLymeData and why you should, too
This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. By Silver Feldman When I was 13 years…
The Lyme Times looks at “wicked Lyme disease”
The latest issue of The Lyme Times looks at Lyme disease in the national scientific agenda. Our cover story explores “the democratization of science,” including the AAAS’s…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Huffington Post reviews my Lyme disease book
I’ve written other books before. But none that I am prouder of than the one I co-wrote with Sandy Berenbaum called When Your Child Has…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Jesse Colin Young sings of “Lymelife”
In the 1960s, singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young and his former band the Youngbloods shot to stardom with the hit song “Get Together.” After the band…
Taking power over a disease “that has brought us to our knees”
This is the first of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. By Sherrill Franklin My Lyme journey began…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Is it Lyme or “school avoidance”?
I recently received the following message from a school nurse: We have a 12-year-old student who was diagnosed with mono in early October. He has…
TOUCHED BY LYME: NEA’s “teachable moment” ends in apology–sort of
This morning, I (and a whole lot of others on social media) took offense at recent comments by the president of the National Education Association….
TOUCHED BY LYME: “Chronically tarded and medically annoying”? Really?
The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other educational personnel. NEA President Lily Eskelsen…