Too bad they repealed “Burning at the Stake”
I’d be cured of Lyme Disease by now.
I think that it’s inspirational that you can still make such lovely flutes while in the stake-burning stages of lyme disease!
Does this make you a Lymie? 
djm
My sister has it and will be interested in this. Thanks! I think…
Yes I am a Lymie Witch who needs to be burned at the Stake.
Actually I am trying to rename this insidious disease that has used up about 7 months of potential flute making time to something that is more dramatic (and marketable) than something that sounds like “Lame Disease”.
Thus I want to rename it after its bacteria “Borrelia” and call it the “Borrelian Plague” and scare the bejeezus out of everybody.
From what I know people should be scared! There is a big hot spot for MS in the Pacific Northwest and my Lyme aware doctor is doing some studies. She suspects this is all Lyme instead. Ditto CFS, Fibromyalgia, etc.
Thus maybe rebranding it with a scarier sounding name (like Bird Flu) will warrant it the attention it deserves. Currently the standard medical community considers it as much of a problem as Reagan considered AIDS a San Francisco problem when that first appeared and we all know how well that turned out! The Insurance Companies are doing a “Heckuva Job” not paying for much of it (all of my costs are out of pocket!) or they would realize they have a full scale Katrina-sided epidemic on their hands!
Get informed. See www.ilads.org and www.lymenet.org
Casey Burns
Ambassador from Borrelia
Didn’t your own pres have a dose? I thought they said he was cured. That bodes well, doesn’t it?
djm
We actually thought that’s what me hubby had for a while, and barked up that tree a bit–some symptom overlap–but t’wasn’t
I know folks who have been thrown for major life loops with that though.
I don’t suppose a good dunking would cure it either.
I grew up in the next town to Lyme and knew people who had the disease before they knew it was bacterial – back when it was “Lyme arthritis” and there was no known cure. Nasty stuff. My nephew had an undiagnosed case of it (this was in Virginia) for about six months. Imagine running track with Lyme disease. He was a teenager, so when he complained about being tired and achy, they just chalked it up to being sleep-deprived and growing pains.
My mother, who’s 84, lives near Lyme, CT, the apparent epicenter of the malady. She’s battling it for the second time in three years, (or maybe still battling the first round). It’s a strange affliction, and sometimes hard to knock out completely. With her, though, it’s hard to know how much to attribute to the illness, and how much to attribute to old age and declining muscle tone, weakening bones, etc. She has kept a great attitude about it, though, and that surely helps.
He could join the Baptists. I hear there’s an opening in the men’s gospel quartet. Can he sing harmony?
Excellent. As long as it’s a monotone chant.
Amy Tan has written a very interesting piece about her experience with it.
Sandy
it is, innit
http://www.amytan.net/LymeDisease.aspx
Thx for the link, Denny. Tan is one of my favourite authors. I never think to put book authors and the web together (d’uh!).
djm
Another famous Lymie. She lives about 12 miles south of me.
Am about to start getting political and start showing this movie to community groups - as soon as my DVD for showing it arrives (the producer has been most gracious!). See the trailer at: