Our director, Andy Abrahams Wilson, is Emmy-nominated for his documentary BUBBAH LEE AND ME (it ran on HBO last month). He's done a number of disease-related films, including one on AIDS, dystonia, and cancer and caregivers. His twin sister had Lyme.

I'm co-producer, and my husband and I have been battling Lyme for 3 years. I'm a writer/researcher, and my first screenplay was produced last year (THE HORSE TRADER.) I'm concentrating on fundraising and researching the politics of Lyme. If you have any inside information on the history and politics of Lyme, please send it to me, [email protected].

Our other co-producer, Cheryl, has a 9-year-old daughter who coincidentally just contracted Lyme on Cape Cod in June. Her daughter would have been in serious trouble if she hadn't learned about the early warning signs through this project. Cheryl has been in charge of looking for our featured Lyme sufferers, and many of you have had conversations with her on the phone.

PROJECT STATUS:
We have filmed about 40 hours of interviews, and we just submitted a sample tape to PBS and, soon, to HBO. We are following the Lyme journeys of 6 characters over the next few months. We've also interviewed celebrities, like Amy Tan, and LLMDs. We still need a seriously ill male and child who are ungoing some Lyme-related transition/drama.

We are currently being slowed down by lack of funds, since our filming requires a lot of travel (Florida, Virginia, NC, Mass., NY, CA) Our core team has not been paid for the last eight months -- most of the funds we've raised have gone to outside production services and travel. So any donations would greatly appreciated. Our hope is that PBS will fund us to completion, with a broadcast guarantee, but we won't know until December.

We have all been personally touched by this disease, and it is a project that we are extremely passionate about. After hearing your tragic Lyme stories for the last eight months, we feel a real urgency to get this project out sooner rather than later. So anything you could to help would be greatly appreciated -- from donations, to broadcast contacts, to leads on our final characters.

There was a guy in New Haven Connectcut that was so ill he couldn't stand..

He was on the news a few times. Lyme completely destroyed his life..Or that football player from the NFL and Florida state that has severe Lyme!

But due to my Lyme brain I can't remeber either of their names...lol