Yup, I have heard this around town, but now I have found blogs on the internet that suggest Christy Brinkley has lyme disease.
Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
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By ROBERT E. TOMASSON Published: September 5, 1990 LEAD: CHRISTIE BRINKLEY and a Congressman have joined forces to stamp out the dreaded deer tick, carrier of the debilitating Lyme Disease. Ms. Brinkley says that a solution to the tick problem is her guinea hens, and scientists are giving her theory some serious consideration.
''There's a lot in the literature about guinea hens controlling ticks in the South,'' Mr. Hochbrueckner said yesterday after he went tick-hunting with Dr. DAVID C. DUFFY, executive director of the Seatuck Foundation, an ecological research foundation in Islip. They found none. ''Their busy season comes in about three weeks,'' Mr. Hochbrueckner said. ''We'll be back.''
Mr. Duffy did take three guinea hens back to his laboratory to determine whether they could differentiate between deer ticks and dog ticks, their favorites
Posted by kelmo (Member # 8797) on :
I remember when she got it, but there was never anything more said about it. They just said she was sick and treated. That was the first and last mention I ever heard about Lyme disease.
Kelly
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
hopefully, she'll speak out now for her own lyme disease; we can only hope, right!? Posted by dontlikeliver (Member # 4749) on :
That article is 17 years old though. Do we know whether it was early Lyme and treated right away or is there any suggestion she's chronically ill?
Posted by dontlikeliver (Member # 4749) on :
That article is 17 years old though. Do we know whether it was early Lyme and treated right away or is there any suggestion she's chronically ill?
Posted by Vermont_Lymie (Member # 9780) on :
I wonder if she was treated by Dr. B. I hope so!
Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
I heard she had IV treatment, so she was probably very sick.
Posted by Foggy (Member # 1584) on :
Maybe she'll consider hosting a Columbia Lyme ctr fundraiser in the hoity toity Hamptons with some of her fancy friends... Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
i'd rather see a fundraiser for conn. dr. j and the many other llmds who have charges from their state's health dept.s against them!!!
that's where i'd like to see the $$$$ go! Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
It's not going to work - I got my bugs from fleas and mosquitos.
If we are ever going to stomp out Lyme Disease, we need to first stop calling it a tickborne disease, and I don't understand why this isn't being done yet - at least by Lyme researchers and sufferers.
Posted by Blackstone (Member # 9453) on :
Controlling tick vectors are great, but the problem is with something that small and that numerous, its impossible.
I'd much rather see more dollars being forced into proper research, getting ILADS and IDSA to work together, and better, faster more targeted cures. Anything focused elsewhere is a waste of time and money.
Posted by Allison Smith (Member # 11631) on :
I agree!
Lyme, like many other diseases, is spread by more than just ticks.
More money needs to go into research and treatment of this darn disease.
The only way to prevent this disease (other than a vaccine) would be not getting bit by any bug.....ever. Good luck with that.
We need funding for treatment and research and a better vaccine.
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