[ 15. August 2006, 11:30 AM: Message edited by: treepatrol ]
Posted by Truthfinder (Member # 8512) on :
Oh, my - thanks for posting this, Tree.
That is both sad and exciting, for sure.
Tracy
Posted by luvs2ride (Member # 8090) on :
I hope Dr B will post us in the future on what we can do to help the cause.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Tree, thanks for the link about Dr. B's letter explaining everything. He's going on to bigger & better things for the CHRONIC LYME community and activism! Yeh, Dr. B! Bettyg Posted by hatsnscarfs (Member # 6562) on :
Thanks for the heads up. I think this is good news for all of us. He will be able to work on the big picture and hopefully bring the changes we are all waiting/fighting for. hats
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Hi to my good friend Tree,
Would you edit your topic title and show somewhere in it that Dr. B is retiring?
Sammi just started another thread & I'm sure others will too unless you are specific as to what is going on so ALL our comments can go to this thread since we have so many newbies daily joining [between 8-12] I send my/your newbies links too.
Thanks my good friend! Take care; have a good week.
I leave in 1.5 hrs. for Minn. for my LLMD appt. tomorrow. So I'll miss all the discussion until tomorrow night when I return. Bettyg Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
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Posted by sarahinnewyork (Member # 7179) on :
This is great news for the lyme community! Dr B has my full support and best wishes-
Those lyme bacteria will be shaking in their little cysts when they find out!
best health, Sarah
Posted by LYMESCIENCE (Member # 9259) on :
In truth this is both sad and happy news. Dr. B is one of the best clinical practioners in the treament of Lyme Disease anywhere in the world.
When I first came to the Lyme community, having realized my illness, I took much of what Dr. B had to say in his guildlines to be a bunch of crap.
However, the further along I am now in my illness, I find something new in his guildlines everyday that just shout genius.
Regardless of whether I thought he was a quack at first, and my unfounded belief that mainstream IDSA doctors would cure me, or even diagnose me given I had a very clear CDC epidemology reportable case with positive tests and signs of disease such as arthritis, the only people who took me in were those in the Lyme litterate community.
It is the revolutionairy work of people like, make that especially Dr. B, he needs to be singled out, which stops me in my tracks. I stand in awe for the compassion hehad, the courage he showed for needy people looking for shelter in the rain, and the incredible contrubitions history will record of this man regarding the contrubution he has made to science.
Most of his theories, I've seen first hand to be extremely close to the biological laws of nature. His guildlines aren't perfect, but they are really darned close.
All he had to go on was observation, he didn't have the fancy equiptment such as that possed by entire medical universities, or goverment agencies such like the CDC or the NIH. Instead, he had an open mind, and a keen eye for observation.
Slowly, but carefully, he studied the biology of Lyme disease in the real world patient population, and his conclusions are nothing less that extrodinairy.
While I don't believe he is 100 percent right in his guildlines, his theory is similar to the one posed by Newton before Einstein came along. He is extremely close to solving this puzzle, unfortunatly, there is still some piece missing.
I hope he gets the chance because he deserves more than the support and praise we give him (which is probally the most important reward of all, changing individual lives).
He deserves for history to record him as one of the great scientists of the late 20th century and early 21st century.
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
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