).As I feel this is an important project, BetterHealthGuy.com is donating $100 dollars to this project (which now puts me over 2000 dollars in the red ).
I would ask for you to review the information about the movie and how much it may help all of us and consider a donation if you are able. There is a "Contribute" link at the site below.
http://www.openeyepictures.com/underourskin/index.html
In Better Health,
Scott www.BetterHealthGuy.com
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Scott
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A.
You know what, I don't care WHAT forum this is posted in. Great news, great great news.
Thank you for this post, very encouraging.
when do you think we can expect to see it?
Is this like independant and only going to be in selected theaters or an all over type of thing.
( figive me if it stated as such on the site)
I can't wait.
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Just keep swimming!
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Scott
www.BetterHealthGuy.com
Open Eye Pictures has also made films about postmodern dancer Anna Halprin, whose name I recognized as being a major player in the world of dance. So I emailed her, and she reassured me that this company is very professional.
Judging by her endorsement and by the website's description of the film (it is in production now), I would have no trouble endorsing this film myself. I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
Regards,
Shaz
Our director, Andy Abrahams Wilson, is Emmy-nominated for his documentary BUBBAH LEE AND ME (it ran on HBO last month). He's done a number of disease-related films, including one on AIDS, dystonia, and cancer and caregivers. His twin sister had Lyme.
I'm co-producer, and my husband and I have been battling Lyme for 3 years. I'm a writer/researcher, and my first screenplay was produced last year (THE HORSE TRADER.) I'm concentrating on fundraising and researching the politics of Lyme. If you have any inside information on the history and politics of Lyme, please send it to me, [email protected].
Our other co-producer, Cheryl, has a 9-year-old daughter who coincidentally just contracted Lyme on Cape Cod in June. Her daughter would have been in serious trouble if she hadn't learned about the early warning signs through this project. Cheryl has been in charge of looking for our featured Lyme sufferers, and many of you have had conversations with her on the phone.
PROJECT STATUS:
We have filmed about 40 hours of interviews, and we just submitted a sample tape to PBS and, soon, to HBO. We are following the Lyme journeys of 6 characters over the next few months. We still need a seriously ill male character and/or a child who are ungoing some Lyme-related transition/drama.
We are currently being slowed down by lack of funds, since our filming requires a lot of travel (Florida, Virginia, NC, Mass., NY.) Our core team has not been paid for the last eight months -- most of the funds we've raised have gone to outside production services and travel. So any donations would greatly appreciated. Our hope is that PBS will fund us to completion, with a broadcast guarantee, but we won't know until December.
We have all been personally touched by this disease, and it is a project that we are extremely passionate about. After hearing your tragic Lyme stories for the last eight months, we feel a real urgency to get this project out sooner rather than later. So anything you could to help would be greatly appreciated -- from donations, to broadcast contacts, to leads on our final characters.
Thanks for your support!
KrisKraft
[email protected] http://www.lymediseasefilm.com/ http://www.openeyepictures.com/underourskin/uos_contribute.html
Regards,
Shaz
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The producer should consider speaking with the website owner and those individuals involved with the development, and maintenance of this site, about my proposal to make this bid on lymenet.org for donation(s) to the production of this film.
I neither know the people making this film, nor have I ANY financial interest,or inducements for making this proposal.
Sorry for sounding 'officious,' but, given the opportunity for any 'entrepreneur' to 'hock' their wares I thought it necessary to be so.
Again, I think the website owner,et.al., involved with the development and maintenance of this site should decide on this proposal.
[This message has been edited by pq (edited 02 September 2005).]
I forgot to say that I do not know SForsgren either.
Now back to my querie....
You have No ONE in the middle states(Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota) on your list of subjectse...where lyme is highly endemic and there are NO Lyme Doc's...what can I do to get you here? 
Thamks..I LOVE this...I have met with two independent film producers here in Iowa while they were attempting to screen for actors for different films...to undertake a docu-drama about Lyme.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KUDO's
Trout
[This message has been edited by troutscout (edited 03 September 2005).]
I'll add to my post above that, the website owners, et. al. as mentioned in my post above, should render a formal statement of their position on my proposal.
You are QUOTING Dr A Steeres' Group on TREATMENT...please remove the ALDF from your resources.
Trout
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Originally posted by troutscout:
Kris I viewed your site references....You are QUOTING Dr A Steeres' Group on TREATMENT...please remove the ALDF from your resources.
Trout
Definately do not quote STEERE as correct!!! We lymies battle this everyday as our insurance companies hang thier hat on this supposed SELF appointed lyme specialist(and I use specialist very sarcastically at best!)
Everything else looks great!! Good Job!!!THANK YOU so much......
daniella
[This message has been edited by daniella (edited 03 September 2005).]
From the website description I should point out it was not a "new ailment." One of the travesties involved here is the bullseye rash and associated "lyme" symptoms were known in EUrope for years and speculated to be a bacterial infection. So it was not a "new" ailment and idiotic Steere even said it was viral which means he was SO DUMB OR LAZY he didn't even do a decent review of the medical literature, which would have had him looking for a bacteria. He later revised his opinion in the face of pressure of other evidence and burgdorferi's "discovery" (whether it was truly a discovery, I don't know, but I guess it was), but he still said it was a short-term infection ie only a few weeks or a month, which is TOTALLY CONTRADICTORY TO known evidence about spirochetal infections.
Thus Steere is basically either a complete idiot who has no understanding of the most basic biology/microbiology, or he's purposely gone to the dark side, or both.
So anyway, this is not a "new" infection, it is an emerging or re-emerging infection that is now epidemic.
IN ADDITION what is really important to convey is the variety of strains. There are strains whose Osp C (one of the major presenting antigens in the human) apparently are not pathogenic. There are some strains that might never progress, and there are others that may be highly pathogenic.
IN ADDITION to that what is REALLY important is that the coinfections are rampant. In the Elizabethan Islands and now coastal connecticut, babesia is EPIDEMIC. In New Jersey, bartonella is EPIDEMIC.
The mix of bugs--depending on where you live, how many bugs were in your tick, how many tickbites you got, you have a soup of different strains of intracellular bugs that all have an affiity for the CNS...and bad tests for THEM ALL.
The picture is so complex that busy harried doctors simply write it all off and most of them have only ordinary intelligence anyway and they weren't built to be heroes either.
KrisKraft