I am the mother of Andrea, a 16yo DD recently diagnosed with Lyme. She has never felt really well (since about age 10) and was told in the last couple of years that she has Fibro and CFS. The usual story I guess, but thank goodness we found out now and not 20 years from now.
Any other Lyme teens out there? We have begun homeschooling this year (grade 10). It is the best decision we ever made--we are now able to make her HEALTH the priority, and the academics will roll along at their own pace. It is difficult for Andi to accept this, as she was always a gifted student in honors classes, etc.
Thanks for listening--hope to learn and share with some of you!
Denise
I have been trying to get my son more involved as he is getting "well".
He too is home schooled and in 10th and was a great student and athlete before lyme. He seems to be interested in e-mailing girls, perhaps a good sign that he is healing.
I can forward an e-mail to my son.
Mel
I did a search (you can do this too) for the word teen because there is discussion about this off and on. Here is a good thread, from last month: http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/011759.html
Click on this and get some good info from people in the same boat.
The way to search is just click on that word (which is in blue very small under the "post reply" message at top side of webpage) and then fill in the search boxes.
I edited it because the tone sounded demanding and cranky which was not intended. Just didn't want her to think she was being ignored. Newbies frequently don't know how to search or even flip back thru previous pages.
Yay, it worked, thanks tutu.
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Best,
Karen
lou....all you have to do to save the embarrassment of editing a hundred times is to erase "this message has been edited by..." each time you go back in. Then it will leave you with ONE edit! Do you like that!!??
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Lymetutu
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Originally posted by lou:
Well, where is everybody? Busy doing weekend errands probably. So, until they come along...I did a search (you can do this too) for the word teen because there is discussion about this off and on. Here is a good thread, from last month: http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/011759.html
Click on this and get some good info from people in the same boat.
The way to search is just click on that word (which is in blue very small under the "post reply" message at top side of webpage) and then fill in the search boxes.
I am trying to set a new record for the most edited post by a lymenet memeber. Actually, I edited it because the tone sounded demanding and cranky which was not intended. Just didn't want her to think she was being ignored. Newbies frequently don't know how to search or even flip back thru previous pages.
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Anyway,I thank you for your help! Actually I am not a newbie in general, just to this board. Andrea has had ongoing health problems even before this Lyme dx (she had bilateral hernia repair surgery in Nov. 2003 after years of severe pelvic pain with no diagnosis), and I've needed to do extensive internet reasearch in order to figure out what was wrong. I always thought it was the DOCTORS who were supposed to do that?!?
Anyway, it's nice to be here. I'll try to reply to everyone who has commented, and to those who have emailed me privately.
Where does everyone live? We are in MD--not everyone has their location in their profile.
Thanks guys/gals.
Denise :-)
I'm going to copy/paste several comments here:
To fibro/CFS members,
I just came across this new web site of good info from Natl. Institute of Health's medline library....covering many other dx illnesses...FMS, CFS, IBS, etc.
Hope you each find some good info there.
Saw it's from Art Dougherty, Calif. in 2001.
300 OTHER illnesses mimic lyme disease!
http://www.geocities.com/lymeart3/misdiag-links.html#disease
Welcome to this 24/7 support group board!
Here's TREEPATROL's and tincup's combination newbie links.
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/029917.html
Print off the links then check them off as you read as you could spend several months reading all of this.
print & read Dr. Barrascono's info first; you will come back to this often.
Betty G., Iowa