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I live in Owensboro, Kentucky. On the news lately, they have warned about ticks and Lyme disease this summer saying that the ticks are really bad but of course Lyme is rare (?) Anyway, my mom just told me that they were warning about the ticks and Lyme in Sacramento, California on the news too although she couldn't give me any more specifics. I told my mom there will just be a lot more sick people this summer because unless they know somebody with Lyme, they are not scared. What a shame. Not only will more people get sick, their trusted doctors will not know (or at least pretend not to know) how to treat them. I wonder if tons more sick people will help us get treatment. Somehow, I doubt it.
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abigall. I'm in West Tennessee and last week in the Nahsville Tennessean there was an article about the quantity of ticks and mosquitos.
We have had so much rain this spring and it makes it hard to keep the grass and fields cut down and we know how much ticks and all love that damp, high grass environment.
My prayer is like yours that the more people who get sick will help us all get the treatment we should be getting.
I honestly have to say I would have never thought I would get a disease like lyme and find out that the protocols and treatments are so varied or validated.
I used to consider myself "not dumb", but really I read all this info to try and help myself and I just don't understand some of it.
I lost both my parents in their late 50's to cancer and I cannot imagine them having to read anything about their treatment while they were so sick. It's unbelievable.
When I read all these posts of sick lyme patients trying to help each other, hanging on long enought to type to help another get through another day I'm amazed, and so very grateful this forum exists.
I have never PM'd someone to ask a specific question who has not answered me offering advice. They truly are a "bridge over troubled waters".
Will 50 or so years from now have it written in medical books how the medical profession could not admit they knew but found it too "compicated" to address. I just don't know.
As I think of it, my parents suffered terribly with cancer treatements that made their lives horrible for a year and a half before they passed.
It is time, now, for a cure for cancer, lyme disease and many others.
This forum is a lifeline for me, when I don't want to tell my family and friends how sick I feel, because I don't want to sound like broken record. Here, I feel sane. Some days, still sick, but at least sane. Thank you all for that.
Prayers and Peace tonight.
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