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Thanks Betty. The Forest Lake, MN sent the link to the poem around, guess they liked it too.
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It's too late now for help, you see, What's done is done, just let it be. "Ssh!" I say, "Don't spread the word!" Wisconny folks like life absurd.
They can't tell day from night, And choose to live a plight, a blight. Lyme disease will kill, you know 'Specially when docs help it grow.
If you ask, they'll tell you, "NO! You'll see a rash; It will show!" (or) "We treated you for long enough! We say 'Post-Lyme'! You call it rough!'"
Beware! Your test must be read their way (No matter what you think to say.) Docs refuse: "What you call Lyme Just can't be! It's hard to find!"
"We're the doctors! We know best! Now go home and get some rest. You don't have Lyme! That isn't true! Get out!" They yell, "And get a clue!"
There is a doc, a small town guy, Who says he just can't live the lie. He'll not treat Lyme like others said. His books are always in the red.
He takes those who cannot pay And always listens when they say "I think it's Lyme. Can you help?" "Yes," he says, and then they yelp--
"No one cared! They wouldn't see-- This thing that's got a hold of me!" "I know," he'll say, "But I'm here now, And I won't leave you or allow You to sink or be called nuts, My door is open, never shuts."
To you dear Doc, I must confess, I feel a wing-ed angel bless My time with you for you believe We'll take my health and find reprieve.
Doc, you try and try and never stop Fighting the beast we've got to whop. We will beat this Lyme together Cut it off its nasty tether.
"It takes time," you say, I know. I trust you, you're no average Joe. You don't know there's none like you, The rest keep patients sick and blue.
I'm going to try to tell your story, Give you time to have some glory Before the day of kangaroo court, Befalls you like it did Shortt.
You've risked all to make us well, Now it's time for us to tell. We're the ones who know, you'll see! We'll shout the truth! We'll shout our plea:
"Stand up all you politicos! Time to see which way wind blows. Save our Doc and make it quick 'Cuz we won't stand for one more trick!"
"We're sick with Lyme and we're tired! Stop the lies in which you're mired! Disband the crazy righteous Board! Stand up for doc's rights toward
Health and help that all must have. Stop the Board! They make us mad!" "The complaints we know are bogus As Doc's lawyer sure can show us!
Board! Admit you judge not knowing All the lives you end up owing!" "You do just what you want, we know, That's how you make the cases flow. Advisor knows just what to crow, To deal a doc the final blow."
A doctor willing and sincere Who treats patients others fear Has to hear your charges clear Inside the Board "hearing" here.
You left them out? What do you do? You think up others that might be true? So you judge on "record-keeping" Of the patients Doc keeps seeing?
Speak, all you unbiased docs! Let's hear again your "records" crocks. Speak now and don't delay, How will you crush what Doc will say?
"His patient records are a sin! And for that we'll do him in! We judge him being poor of pen That's really where this case begins."
How dare you say for this we pay A witch hunt always starts Lyme's fray. We've seen it with Docs J and J.
It's old hat like yesterday. You think we don't see puppets? You're worn by others just like Muppets, Played by hand to beat the band The goal to get Lyme doctors canned.
In Canada and Missouri, Rise up friends to show Lyme fury! Please tell those who speak for you Lyme Wars end or they're through!
We'll be there in Capitol foyers Telling you these Boards are toyers Who stand and sit as smug annoyers-- What say you, Doc? What say your lawyers?
In Lyme War, Doc is but a token. The mighty Board has since spoken. Doc is hurt, I think he's chokin' Back the tears. His heart is broken:
"I'm sad for you, you won't believe What a troubled web you weave You'll not let go, Big Dog with Bone, And see your way to leave me 'lone.
"I don't write lists of symptoms, I'm the doc who sits and listens. I hear what patients say to me, I keep it in my head you see.
"Up there I wade through what they say And sort it out to find the way To take away the frightening pain Other docs would not explain.
"Docs follow like ducks to water, Dropping Lyme patients to the slaughter. I've got a gift from my father, I try to use it, that I oughter'
"Docs like you that came before Thought little and no more Of Lyme patients you'd treat but few And so from that my practice grew.
"Board! You hear oh so little, Me I'm caught in the middle Of patients who are sick; you're not! You dismiss what can't be bought.
"Docs like you who question treatment Wind up denying patients freedom. The ones I see must win, not lose, Why can't you simply let them choose?
"You judge me and other doctors With your accusatory discourse Won't you stop for good of all? End this war and stand up tall!
"It's care I give that patients sought You don't see how they're caught. In the wrong things you were taught. But my words here stand for naught.
We tried and tried And screamed so loud-- "Refuse to be part of the crowd! Don't take our Doc who's done us proud!"
Wisconny docs upon the Board To disagree they'd not afford Their position high and mighty In the medical society.
Robbing health and stuffing pockets Protected from law court dockets. They know how to decide the case To cause a caregiver's fall from grace.
Good ol' Doc fought long and hard To heal those that others barred. Frazzled mothers, anguished fathers, He helped heal our sons and daughters.
He'd stand by them to make them well To stop Lyme-life in hell. But Doc is gone, such a loss; His healing ways the State did toss To the phonies and their cronie Whose charges were just big balonies.
Funny how the State gets lost Always looking at the cost Of tourists and their mighty dollars Lauded over one who hollers:
"LYME KILLS! END THE BATTLE OVER A SERIOUS DISEASE FOR PATIENTS AND DOCTORS!"
by Johanna Lake Tick City, Wisconsin
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BRILLIANT !! Please thank Johanna for this wonderfully written, sentimental piece! xox
Glad you're still here. You're right. Dr. Rudolf Scrimenti, a dermatologist, diagnosed a man with an EM--a grouse hunter, and prescribed antibiotics. The man got better, but you're right, Scrimenti and others weren't sure what it all meant at the time.
I know someone in Wisconsin who most definitely had Lyme before it was called Lyme.
mjo
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This thread and poem are really for all of us. Why not take off the Wisconny thing so more folks will open it?
Just a suggestion! I want people to see the poem!
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mo,
this was the hardest thing i have ever copied being in 3 columns; took 10-12 tries to get it PIECE-MEAL! uffda
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mo,
i too encourage you to change the title of this wonderful LYME POEM your wisc. lyme woman wrote!! it's too good NOT to have many folks having visited and write a brief reply.
just click pencil, 3rd box to right of your name, and that opens up subject line and body text!
OUTSTANDING LYME POEM WRITTEN BY WISC. WOMAN....
something along that lines...
it took me a LONG time to copy that here online so we all could read it....
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You need to know this..."they" are working on a cure...it is being done on the international space station.
just use 880nM and be sure to have enough Mg sulfate in the system prior.
Try hard to understand this:
"Vertebrate rhodopsins (us) are able to bind the inverse agonist (helper) 11-cis-retinal but are
***unable to bind the agonist (helper) all-trans-retinal***,
indicating that vertebrate rhodopsin changed its binding ability during the course of molecular evolution.
***Here, we show that unlike vertebrate rhodopsin (ours),
amphioxus (WFL) rhodopsin is still able to bind the agonist all-trans-retinal. ***
With its blue belly (blue absorbs red) and via hunting for food at night (needs to see in darkness = makes a LOT of rhodopsin)...
This combination - rhodopsin and RED LIGHT...causes this:
The opsin of amphioxus rhodopsin can also bind 11-cis-retinal to form a photoreceptive pigment that can
convert to a red-shifted photoproduct through cis-trans isomerization of the chromophore upon
***photon absorption.***
The red-shifted photoproduct is the stable G protein activating state."
I won't continue on here, but I have done so in other posts...as to what goes on to happen.
The 880nM wavelength looks to transfer energy (photons) which increases ATP IN THE INFECTED CELLS...which binds to Mg making Mg-ATP which assists in transfering phosphate groups which Bb is INHIBITING via its PKCD inhibitor.
If a phosphate group is added to serine...this looks to rebalance the HPA axis.
P.S. I think a LOT of chondroitin sulfate per day can help a lot too - perhaps even cure...as well as high (dangerous) levels of Benicar, Rife, IV Mg sulfate, and perhaps lauricidin.
There is more than one way to destroy Bb. Abx. don't work. They HELP, YES!, but do not totally destroy Bb. This pathogen is capable of rebuilding its damaged cell walls (plural)...whether damaged by "oxidative stress" or by abx. which first have to get into the cells in which Bb is camped out (HeLa - endothelial/epithelial cells that line our blood vessels).
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Thanks to you Betty and Lymetoo, and your suggestions. I read the poem again and it really is for all. We all face and feel the same things the author felt. Changed heading. Let's keep it up, okay?
I don't think the poem makes light of our Lyme world, but it's a look at the situation in verse.
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Is there a way to move the whole thing to activism?
I wonder if this is the same woman who wrote the Mayo poems of so long ago. They were great too.
Will see if they're here in the mounds of Lyme literature and try to post if it's the same gal.
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Oops. Not awake yet. I meant to put the same post in Activism too, not move it out of Medical. Sorry for my foggy brain.
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I agree about the poem going in Activism. I hope this is not Dr H she's writing about? I know everyone was working on his behalf and I thought charges were dropped.
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What doctor is this about?? What a moving poem.. wow!
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Posted her Mayo poems too! They just said j.l. at the bottom. It must be the same gal.
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Just heard this poem was written for Dr H, but he's ok and is still treating patients.
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Perhaps the writer had that doc in mind, but I think she was trying to get all of us on board everywhere, trying to make us realize that all of our docs are in jeopardy until we "win."
Seems to me the poem points the finger at medicine being the problem and how medicine won't fix their own frailties and falacies, so we have to look to our legislators to better the situation.
Maybe I read too much into the words?
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Thanks Betty for copying and pasting this and hanging in there until you got it done.
Wow. Thank you Ms Poet
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kam, you/others are welcome as i couldn't read it there on the site.
i was ready for the funny farm after trying to copy this in pits and pieces !!
worst thing i'd ever worked on in my computer life!
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mo, would you believe someone else called me SAINT BETTY one time too?
you 2 have had too much FRUITTY juices!
but thank you! it was a bugger to do, but i wanted to read it, and i knew others would like it too.
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copying this additional 2 part poem to mjo's post here ....
Topic: Mayo Poem Found! Here's Part 1
mjo Frequent Contributor Member # 7876 posted 04-11-2008 02:12 PM
For those of you not familiar with Mayo Clinic, the Brothers Mayo were Charles and William. Their father was a physician too.
Hold The Mayo!
If you're sick and don't know why There's always one more place to try: In the land of sky-blue waters Sits a town of lofty towers:
Rochester Mayo of the brothers, Go there if you have your druthers. They'll find what's wrong, that's what they do, So why are Lyme vics sad and blue?
Will and Charlie would be mad To find what makes us Lymies sad: At this center of world renown In the vaunted doctor town, They do not diagnose Lyme in clinic, So of Mayo I'm a cynic.
"What?" you say, "How can that be? They have so much to offer me!" Unless your numbers pass the test You'll stay sick like all the rest.
Just because you have no bands, No Mayo doc understands That you're still sick and do have Lyme's, So Mayo hides between the lines.
"What an outrage! These are crimes! I'm so mad there should be fines!" Mayo's stuck behind the times Like most doctors that one finds.
Go underground! I say you must, To find a doctor you can trust. One that remembers Hippocrates With every patient he/she sees.
These docs would say they're neither bold nor brave, Just have too many vics to save. They risk all to help, to try, Unwilling to let Lymies die.
We'll gain strength, we'll fight back! All Lymies must go on attack. We must fight and supercede Medicine consumed by greed.
So Charlie and Will can have their rest Mayo should face a pressure test: Write to them, here's the address: Get well my friends! I wish you best!
The author had added this address: **************************************
Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW ROchester, MN 55905
Chuck and Will would find it odd To learn their doctors now play God, But not in ways to find a cure They use their jobs as sinecure. These docs follow rules set in stone To leave Lyme's sickest all alone:
Like the jingle bells of Santa Can Chuck and Will hear Mayo mantra? "Three weeks Doxy/recovery total, Chronic Lyme is anecdotal." "Lyme Disease does not go on, To say it does is just a con."
Surely the Brothers would Stand and fight if they could. They're long gone so what to do? I don't have much to offer you. I'm looking for answers everywhere To help end this scourge, this scare.
I've even looked on Mayo walls And traveled down its endless halls. I think the licenses the Docs did frame Look down on Mayo much ashamed. If they could speak what would they say While listening in on our Lyme fray?
I think they'd say, "Let's forge new ground, We're missing something so profound. All this trouble over tests Is not in our best interests. We turn away the sick, the ill Afraid of insurance we must bill."
"Yes, we must make it right, We'll change our ways and end the fight. We'll remember that our mission Puts disease in submission. New protocol in position Will bring wellness to fruition."
Then Chuck and Will can look down And smiles they'll have, they will not frown, So in the vaunted doctor town, Peace will reign and Lymies heal Progress made by all with zeal!
"P.S. I think a LOT of chondroitin sulfate per day can help a lot too - perhaps even cure...as well as high (dangerous) levels of Benicar, Rife, IV Mg sulfate, and perhaps lauricidin. "
This is appallingly dangerous advice that could result in DEATH.
For example, Benicar (Olmesartan), is a powerful drug which works on angiotensin II receptors to regulate blood pressure. If you don't suffer from high blood pressure (and many Lyme patients suffer from postural hypotension and other manifestations of LOW blood pressure) it could cause serious damage. Likewise if you happen to suffer concurrently from a number of other conditions, Lyme-related or not.
It also interacts with many medicines.
It can alter your potassium levels causing hyperkalaemia, which can STOP YOU BREATHING and cause CARDIAC ARREST. If you are pregnant it can KILL YOUR BABY.
Magnesium is an essential mineral in the body, but like all minerals/electrolytes, it needs to be in proper balance. As excessive intake can be FATAL.
Some of the possible side effects of magnesium sulphate overdose include :
"Circulatory collapse and Respiratory paralysis"
It can cause serious effects when used together with many drugs, including many abx eg doxycycline minocycline, oxytetracycline, tetracycline
Please consult a Lyme-literate doctor before taking any medication.
Marnie wrote: "(HeLa - endothelial/epithelial cells that line our blood vessels)."
I have no idea what this means. HeLa are a line of cancer cells.
Antibiotics CAN destroy borrelia, but it is harder in chronic infection.
I have no idea what the references to rhodopsin etc mean.
Elena
quote:Originally posted by Marnie: You need to know this..."they" are working on a cure...it is being done on the international space station.
just use 880nM and be sure to have enough Mg sulfate in the system prior.
Try hard to understand this:
"Vertebrate rhodopsins (us) are able to bind the inverse agonist (helper) 11-cis-retinal but are
***unable to bind the agonist (helper) all-trans-retinal***,
indicating that vertebrate rhodopsin changed its binding ability during the course of molecular evolution.
***Here, we show that unlike vertebrate rhodopsin (ours),
amphioxus (WFL) rhodopsin is still able to bind the agonist all-trans-retinal. ***
With its blue belly (blue absorbs red) and via hunting for food at night (needs to see in darkness = makes a LOT of rhodopsin)...
This combination - rhodopsin and RED LIGHT...causes this:
The opsin of amphioxus rhodopsin can also bind 11-cis-retinal to form a photoreceptive pigment that can
convert to a red-shifted photoproduct through cis-trans isomerization of the chromophore upon
***photon absorption.***
The red-shifted photoproduct is the stable G protein activating state."
I won't continue on here, but I have done so in other posts...as to what goes on to happen.
The 880nM wavelength looks to transfer energy (photons) which increases ATP IN THE INFECTED CELLS...which binds to Mg making Mg-ATP which assists in transfering phosphate groups which Bb is INHIBITING via its PKCD inhibitor.
If a phosphate group is added to serine...this looks to rebalance the HPA axis.
P.S. I think a LOT of chondroitin sulfate per day can help a lot too - perhaps even cure...as well as high (dangerous) levels of Benicar, Rife, IV Mg sulfate, and perhaps lauricidin.
There is more than one way to destroy Bb. Abx. don't work. They HELP, YES!, but do not totally destroy Bb. This pathogen is capable of rebuilding its damaged cell walls (plural)...whether damaged by "oxidative stress" or by abx. which first have to get into the cells in which Bb is camped out (HeLa - endothelial/epithelial cells that line our blood vessels).
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