In Our Shoes Project

I had the privilege of seeing Jennifer Brea's film about her journey with ME/CFS at the MKE Film Fest yesterday. It was so reminiscent of the lives we are all living. I was shocked to learn that there are actually places that will remove a suffering child from their home because the government and medical communities won't acknowledge their disease, and therefore blame the parents/patient instead. I'm so thankful that my daughter wasn't subjected to removal from our home because she's had to spend much of the last four years in her bedroom. I had to smile at the part about hookworms, f***l transplants, green slime and kombucha mothers. We'll try ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to try to feel better! Luckily after years of consistent and intensive treatments, my daughter and I are seeing improvements. My heartfelt wish for all those suffering from misunderstood and ignored diseases is that we can find ways to heal our immune systems and find healing practitioners and modalities that will help us repair at the cellular level so our quality of life is improved and we can begin living life again!

Here's something else France has that we don't: an app that lets everyone report tick bites on themselves or their pets. It's called Signalement Tique and was just released by the National Institute for Agricultural Research in July. http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/08/11/french-lyme-disease

STARTS TOMORROW! Sign up for free here: http://urltag.net/BpNG0 . You can look forward to hearing from:

Dana Walsh (featured in Under Our Skin) & Brent Martin: How to Lyme Less & Live More

Dr. Amy Derksen: Non-Antibiotic Approaches to Treating Children

Dr. Philip Blair: Lyme Recovery with CBD

Dr. Tyna Moore: Strength Training to Optimize Stem Cells

Dr. Izabella Wentz: Thyroid and Lyme Disease

Dr. Jerod Bergman: Stopping EMFs and Geopathic Stress

Dr. Todd Watts: Killing Parasites to Kill Lyme Disease

Dr. Sarah Ballantyne: Diet/Lifestyle as a Complementary Approach

Dr. David Jernigan (Hansa Center): Unique Approach to Healing

Dr. Christine Schaffer: Healing Your Brain from Lyme Disease

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt (Sophia Health): Latest on Lyme Testing and Treatments

Dr. Jonathan Streit: Testing for Functional Neurological Issues

Dr. Jay Davidson: Improving Lyme Disease Protocols

Dr. James Maskell: Evolution of Medicine and Lyme

Diane Capadi: Consciousness as it Relates to Healing

Dr. Jill Carnahan: CIRS and Lyme Disease

Dr. Darin Ingels: Herbal Therapy and Low Dose Immunotherapy

AND MANY MORE.....

Joy Luck Club author, Amy Tan, on her journey with Lyme Disease:

As a Lyme patient, I have joined a club of people with a stigmatized disease that many doctors do not want to treat. While I have been lucky enough to find a doctor who is willing to provide open-ended treatment --and I have the means to pay for --many of my fellow Lyme patients have gone without appropriate care. As a consequence, they have lost their health, their jobs, their homes, their marriages, and even their lives.I now know the greatest harm borrelia has caused. It is ignorance.

Some inroads have been made. More research is showing why the bacteria can become intractable, how it can morph. The CDC, which said Lyme disease infected only 30,000 people a year, revised that number last year to 300,000, and then revised it again more recently, saying it could be as high as one million people infected each year. So why is there no public funding for dealing with this epidemic?

Lyme disease is more prevalent than most people think. It ismore difficult to diagnose than most doctors think. It requires ongoing treatment in many cases. More research is needed before we know how it can be adequately treated, and one day, cured. In the meantime, my advice to friends and family is to be aware and be informed. Realize that Lyme disease has been reported in every state. Wear insect repellent, the 12-hour kind. Check you body and all those crevices that ticks love. Check your loved ones and your kids. And if you are bitten by a tick and suspect you have been infected, go see a Lyme-literate physician. Get treated early and adequately. Don’t wait, as I did, and let a treatable disease turn into a chronic one.

Since Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist, some doctors will use creative diagnostic codes in order to try to get insurance companies to cover treatments for their patients.