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This book looks great. Her website is very interesting too. I just got it on Kindle.
Thanks for sharing about it.
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DKat I didn't even realize it was available on kindle, thanks for that info. I am going to order it for my kindle also. And I haven't checked out her website yet. I'll have to go check out her site.
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thanks for posting this. I'm in a book club and I'm going to suggest this.
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Has anyone read this yet? It's not at my local library and the Barnes & Noble in town says out of stock. I might get it from Amazon.
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Yes, but is seems a Lyme patient is the villain in this book. from the website:
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Torn from the front lines of medical debate and the author's own experience with Lyme Disease, Over the Edge is riveting fiction, full of twists and turns�and powerful truths about today's medical field.
Janessa McNeil�s husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University's Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases�especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist. Even as patients across the country are getting sicker, the committee Brock chairs is about to announce its latest findings�which will further seal the door shut for Lyme treatment.
One embittered man sets out to prove Dr. McNeil wrong by giving him a close-up view of the very disease he denies. The man infects Janessa with Lyme, then states his demand: convince her husband to publicly reverse his stand on Lyme�or their young daughter will be next.
But Janessa's marriage is already rocky. She's so sick she can hardly move or think. And her husband denies she has Lyme at all.
Anyone else think this might be an attempt to make us look bad? Then again, it does portray the IDSA doc as a callous SOB.
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I got this book on my Kindle and once I started reading, couldn't put it down.
It is definately a thriller-type page turner. The author wrote from her own experience with Lyme so it is quite accurate.
I did not feel it portrayed people suffering with Lyme as anything but strong an courageous even in the face of CDC doctors disbelief of what we're going through.
I would recommend this book. It would be great to rent from a library as it's such a quick read...you will want to find out 'who dun it'.
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TY DKat
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I haven't read the book--looked from the blurb like a Lyme patient was cast as the bad guy, but if it's in fact supportive of us, then that's great.
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