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As a long time Star Trek fan I was recently inspired to come up with a new name for the Lyme Disease we are all suffering from. How does this name sound?
The Borrelian Plague !!!!
This sounds like some sort of gnarly and scary disease found on some unfortunate planet, about to be saved by a visit from the Enterprise, just in time before the last commercial.
I am semi-serious about this and this isn't an attempt to trivialize Lyme disease. Trivializing Lyme apparently has been done already by the standard medical community that refuses to become fully aware about Lyme, and continues to not even consider it.
Think about names. SARS and Bird Flu already scare the wits out of us by their names and these relatively rare diseases get way more attention and media traction. But Lyme Disease? Lame Disease? We are frequently told it is all in our heads. Lyme is just a New England problem to most (just like AIDS was a "Gay problem" to Ronald Reagan). Everyone is surprised that I caught this here near Seattle.
Perhaps by renaming this disease to something really scary sounding, it could finally get the media and medical attention it deserves, instead of being brushed under the rug or treated like it doesn't exit.
Its all in the Marketing.
Lets scare everyone out of their wits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only the Enterprise would visit soon and Drs. McCoy, Crusher or Bashear could come up with a simple cure, delivered by Hypospray.
"This won't hurt a bit, Jim."
Time for me to go get high on Tetracycline and (Lipoic) Acid.....
Casey Burns - Borrelian Plague Sufferer
Posted by Niere (Member # 14387) on :
LOL--Casey I love it!
There must be something in the ethers because just today I was saying to my husband "I wish Dr. McCoy was here and he could just cure this."
Good ol' Bones. Posted by Truthfinder (Member # 8512) on :
Heck, if we just had the diagnostic abilities that Bones had, I'd be happy.
Posted by KS (Member # 12549) on :
Love the idea!
I may be interviewed by a newspaper coming up about Lyme disease....I should throw that out there as a suggestion for a title:)
Posted by KS (Member # 12549) on :
Actually, just thinking that the term should somehow include all tick infections since most of us are probably dealing with a lot more than lyme...I'm not very creative when it comes to things like this...
Posted by aklnwlf (Member # 5960) on :
Being a longtime Trekkie how bout RVBI.
RVBI- Resistant Vector-born Illness
Resistance is futile. We will assimilate.
Posted by bejoy (Member # 11129) on :
I stopped telling people I have/had lyme disease.
I tell them I had Neuro Borreliosis, an antibiotic resistant infection of the central nervous system, (brought on by untreated lyme disease.)
I get wows out of that rather than the old blank stare.
I think you're on to something with renaming it.
People already think they know what there is to know about Lyme.
Take an antibiotic and some advil and you'll feel better.
But you probably don't really have it, because your Alysa and Labcorp were negative, so stop whining, take some antidepressants and get a hobby.
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