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heiwalove
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does anyone know anything about alice walker's experience with lyme disease? how long she struggled? how she was treated? if she has any remaining effects?

she's one of my absolute favorite authors and i had no idea she was afflicted with lyme.

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Ann-OH
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http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/popup_source.shtml?member_name=chrisdanielle&path=alicebio_6.html&client_ip=152.163.96.38&ts=1102437108&ad_type=POPUP&search_string=alicewalker&id= e5b37cbe5d3b0111e14393d3114ca725

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In 1996, Alice released her third book of collected essays called The Same River Twice which documented her battles with Lyme Disease, her feelings about the criticism about her novel and the movie The Color Purple, as well as her break up with her long-time partner Robert Allen. It also includes her original version of the script for the movie, which was never used. In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, which is her fourth book of essays, dicusses her activism. Her current book is By the Light of My Father's Smile explores her characters sexuality through the erotic. Alice currently resides in Mendocino, California on her ranch with her dog, Marley.
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Mary J
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The Same River Twice; Alice Walker

Just ordered it through Chapters.

Thanks heiwalove & ann oh

A little Christmas gift to myself...

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stage3
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I could be wrong, but I got the impression Alice is still dealing with Lyme...

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heiwalove
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really?
where/how did you get that impression?

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she talks about it in the book Same river Twice. she is at the filming of the Color Purple in Wilmington NC and lying on the ground gets three ticks.
so welcome to Mayberry

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heiwalove
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i suppose i could just read the book, which i definitely will eventually, but for those of you who already have, how serious was/is her case? and is she still being treated or dealing with lingering effects? i saw her speak sometime in april and she is absolutely AMAZING, so centered and wise and beautiful in every way; healed spiritually at least, i believe she is a prophet.

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Lymied
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Hi there - I found this buried post today and the irony was not lost on me..heiwalove, I was sitting in that same auditorium in April on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus...sick with Lyme, Babesia, and Ehrlichia but not knowing it...I would become extremely ill May 2004 just a few weeks later and not know what I was dealing with for 6 months. Here I was in the company of Alice Walker and you somewhere in the audience...If only Alice had talked about the lyme...maybe one month later I would have figured it out faster...We have to all talk about this...bring it out in the open and shine the light on it...I some how gathered that night that she was blind in one eye...but there was no discussion as to why...not sure if this is due to the lyme...I remember thinking that night how lonely it felt to sit there by myself in a noisy auditorium waiting for her arrival. I had just moved here a month before...Little did I know I would spend months pouring over medical journals trying to figure out what was wrong with me...so ironic....

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