Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years–but the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, featuring the stories of chronic Lyme patients from around the world and their struggle for recognition and treatment.
Thanks for posting this. Looks very good, seems that it will be very real. -
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The date at the end of the article for the Allie Cashel's talk at Bard College is incorrect. The correct date is Monday, September 28th. Allie has scheduled a book tour across the country, for more dates see above or go to: http://sufferingthesilence.com/book-tour/#sthash.XQH59KoO.dpbs
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How society treats illness reason for book on Lyme
Andrea Pyros For the Poughkeepsie Journal 12:02 a.m. EDT September 19, 2015
Writer Allie Cashel begins her new book, “Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial,” noting that a dismissive approach by doctors to a patient’s Lyme disease symptoms “can leave those suffering without an advocate — at a time of perhaps their most desperate need. ... As a result, they are forced to live shadow lives, plagued with disabling symptoms and yet often dismissed by the medical community and by our society as being mentally, rather than physically, ill.”
Though 24-year-old Cashel experienced those feelings of isolation and marginalization during her 16 years as a Lyme and tick-borne disease patient, she said she hopes her book, which weaves her own health history with information about Lyme and interviews with people with the disease, will help those suffering from chronic illnesses to know they’re not alone.
During her undergraduate years at Bard College, Cashel started working on the book and will return to the Annandale campus Sept. 28 to talk about the book and sign copies for the public. . . .