TOUCHED BY LYME: How the “pain scale” inflicts even more pain on children
Children with Lyme disease experience many different kinds of pain, which don’t always fit neatly into categories on a medical chart.
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.
Children with Lyme disease experience many different kinds of pain, which don’t always fit neatly into categories on a medical chart.
Guest blogger Regina Levy, CPA, discusses tax issues that may apply to parents of children with Lyme disease.
The Real Housewife’s struggle with Lyme disease is by far the most-accessed news story on our blogs.
Guest blogger Sarah Israel tells why, after 10 years of silence, she started speaking up about Lyme disease.
The illness damages more than your body. It can also demolish your bank account.
A new documentary explores the life and times of former “riot grrrl” Kathleen Hanna.
Online groups are valuable tools for people with Lyme. But there’s something about face-to-face connections that just can’t be beat.
A teenager with Lyme seeks answers on the internet, while knitting scarves to pay for medical treatment.
Lyme disease in the public eye–have we reached a tipping point?
This guest blogger, who prefers to remain anonymous, outlines what she went through to obtain disability for Lyme disease.
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