These are myths! Those of us that are sick with this stuff are in fact downright septic. It is a bacteremia, and at times our blood might be literaly SWARMING with them. The mystery is really 'why we aren't dead yet', not 'why we are sick'.

Here are a couple of videos of live blood by a MD's researching Borrelia in Europe, from this site:
http://lymerick.ulmarweb.dk/

Here are their video clips showing what you or I can see with properly equipped but not necessarily exhorbitantly priced microscopes.

(Note the files are very big if you have a slow connection.)

Andy Wright, MD, UK, 2004 (52mb!) http://lymerick.ulmarweb.dk/video/AndyWright2004-640.wmv

Marie Kroun, MD, Denmark
`moving granulated cellular structure' (18mb) http://lymerick.ulmarweb.dk/York2003/0018-GCS2.wmv

I have a couple of older research grade microscopes that did not cost alot of money. One has 'Darkfield', the other has 'Dark Phase Contrast', and on the highest power objectives. (100x oil immersion.) They produce images just like the ones in the videos.

The widely held belief about their rarity and invisibility is just not true.

You can see them, you can watch them in the live state interacting with live cells, and you can see what effect a treatment is having on them.

And in about 12 hours...how do YOU feel?

I am really wondering how the keets react to various pitches, if they do.

Just very curious. I LOVED microbiology class many moons ago!

I'm going to have to try later too...slow downloading with a new computer and high speed internet access.

In general, they do not seem to react to very many things that could be safely applied to a human body, including most of the antibiotics we take.

Right now, I am focusing on the task of making a living, an important task at the moment. Later, when I have a break for a few days I will try some things.