Lyme Stories
A Husband’s Advice ~ If A Loved One Has Lyme
This is real, realer than you can imagine and leaving or not believing just proves the belief that it is not real. STAY. UNDERSTAND. FIGHT. LOVE. You cannot fix it, but you can make it better by simply STAYING and FIGHTING with your loved one.
Letters To Strangers 2016 ~ Montana Letter
This effort was discussed in my recent post about my trip to DC last week, and is described in further detail in a post from May of last year. My letter was updated this year and some of the Montana patients active with Northern Rockies Lyme Disease Coalition efforts shared their photos to help further […]
Yolanda Foster Bashing Doctor-Author Forgot To Research Lyme Disease (Part Two)
Misinformation about Lyme disease dangerously skews public perceptions of patients, in addition to perceptions of the disease, further alienating thousands of patients from families, friends and careers, as well as appropriate healthcare.
Styling a Lyme Bill ~ Washington Guest Post by Hannah Elise Miller Kato
What do you wear to witness the signing of a state bill by the Governor? As I picked over my closet I thought about how I arrived at this day. I thought about my long fight over the last ten plus years. I thought about it all; the sleepless nights, the progressive symptoms that waxed […]
Prologue ~ Guest Series from Washington’s Recognizing Chronic Lyme Bill Supporters
Washington’s SB 5448, Recognizing Chronic Lyme was signed Friday, April 24, by Governer Inslee. There will be more steps in the future, but the signing makes way for some of the stories from the inspiring patients that supported this bill. I love to share other people’s stories and other people’s work, and the patients advocating […]
Go Fund Me Link ~ Please Help (And Pray For) Heather Haynes
Friend/Patient/Advocate In Need of Assistance ~ Heather Haynes Go Fund Me Link ~
Please Share Courtney’s Lyme Campaign ~ An 11-Year Old’s Class Project
I’m posting this for Courtney Prew, who is working on a class project raising awareness for Lyme disease for her Mom, Heather Prew, who is fighting chronic Lyme. They’ve already touched a bunch of Lymies since starting this (and made a bunch of us cry!!!) ~ please help Courtney reach many more! If you share […]
Gratitude Post ~ Everything I Wanted
Before I contracted Lyme disease along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in northwest Montana, I had everything I wanted. I had pretty much reached all of the major goals I had set for myself and then some. Not only had I gotten into (and completed) graduate school, but I had done so under […]
Long-Term Lyme: Were You Diagnosed With Lyme Disease First, or Something Else?
For millions of patients, like me and the dozens of other patients that shared varying degrees of their situations and stories here, still fighting Lyme Disease years after our initial infection, it is emotionally difficult to read or hear that our disease ‘does not exist’. We need a larger percentage of doctors and the general public […]
1986 Lyme Persistence Study is Just One Example of Relevant Available Science
This post is a lengthy introduction to a study published in 1986 that speaks directly to the issue of the persistence of Lyme infection. This is one of many studies addressing this question (Lymedisease.org has a useful pdf list of similar evidence) in the past three or more decades. Yet many high profile doctors and […]
Invisibly Lyme Montana 