tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86597814529168275082024-02-07T08:45:19.427-08:00Ticked Off LiterallyTickedOffLiterallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17316053635826796281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659781452916827508.post-42168676596597300202009-06-01T13:54:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:28:57.124-07:00Ticked Off Literally!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPI_uGJyi1PjxyGuQ2ZKLKTTuMStrTYbJZ8R4iRE9J4Fscbhu4XQ8Cny5o83Yb-wRihMb87qgQOqvf-bc8S-GD9zOi8gZveeGBJ5w-lcLtN0O7KBcS6226ZGY1pqJmNQeqD-Nk8ohVCdK/s1600/embedded+tick.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPI_uGJyi1PjxyGuQ2ZKLKTTuMStrTYbJZ8R4iRE9J4Fscbhu4XQ8Cny5o83Yb-wRihMb87qgQOqvf-bc8S-GD9zOi8gZveeGBJ5w-lcLtN0O7KBcS6226ZGY1pqJmNQeqD-Nk8ohVCdK/s400/embedded+tick.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644831305363743346" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Lyme Disease? Sure.</strong></span>
<br />I'll be careful. Whatever.
<br />I'll just go to a doctor if I ever get it,
<br />which would never happen anyway.</span>
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<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">I'm a CityKid, and that's <span style="font-weight: bold;">when </span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;">if</span>
<br />I even go out at all!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Is this Embedded Nymph Deer Tick not the <span style="font-weight: bold;">*most*</span> Revolting thing you've ever <span style="font-weight: bold;">seen</span>???</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a Super Macro Zoom image. They are a fleck of a speck in reality.</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">(I took and zoomed this photo to see what was in my leg---dot would fit into this circle-->0<--.)</span>
<br />I drove 350 miles as it hitched a ride on my leg!
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IF YOU ONLY GIVE THIS BLOG 3-MINUTES OF YOUR TIME, I WANT TO TELL YOU THREE THINGS YOU'LL *NEVER* SEE ON A LYME WARNING POSTER!</span> (Okay four :) </p>
<br /><p>1) YOU WON'T FEEL a TICK crawl on YOU (Yeah, I thought I would too)-their feet are designed to walk on skin undetected. Mine ran as fast as an ant in the container!</p><p>2) YOU WON'T FEEL THEM BITE!-NUMBING AGENTS in their saliva.</p><p>3) YOU *Absolutely <strong>CAN* get deer ticks in your own backyard or brought in by your pets.</strong></p><p>4) YOU are up a CREEK without a PADDLE in NORTH AMERICA if you DO contract Lyme Disease!!!</p><p><strong>In a HURRY? <em>Watch my 11,000 view VIDEO:</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ALgOikmjCw"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-size:180%;" >"Seven ~7~ Lyme Facts That Could Have Saved Me!"</span> </a><-VIDEO HERE</em></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWgS0XLVqw&feature=channel"></a></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">So...it's not my issue. Not my problem. It can't be serious anyway, right?
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">********************<span style="font-size:180%;">Wrong!!!</span> ********************
<br />It only takes a few minutes outside in the wrong place at the wrong time, coupled with a little ignorance, and there you go! Lyme Disease can be virtually impossible to get treated past the early stages, and sometimes has few or no symptoms early on. What a wake up call!</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MVXEdvpwzREor20WqtmtmdXGNNQ5Q4Jt6balz9M5rXOL06cg0SvYkbDWgOEsxtzyiWG0cx_i9a9JVefMThWypqALB3lCAzhDr8Cb1knyAUmiviTKxhf1Gu1SXpnbZ3U4A8nULKNsslw/s1600-h/deer_tick_identification.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 131px; float: right; height: 80px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343445844117970914" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MVXEdvpwzREor20WqtmtmdXGNNQ5Q4Jt6balz9M5rXOL06cg0SvYkbDWgOEsxtzyiWG0cx_i9a9JVefMThWypqALB3lCAzhDr8Cb1knyAUmiviTKxhf1Gu1SXpnbZ3U4A8nULKNsslw/s400/deer_tick_identification.jpg" border="0" /></a>
<br />I was outside for 5-10 MINUTES handling an urgent matter (and of course, taking photos) before I went inside to trade shorts and sandals for pants, socks and shoes. (Lyme Conscious, Anti-Tick Attire).
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<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">***"This is only One Person's Story with links to information found on the world wide web, and any advice is not be be taken as a substitute for that of a competent physician."***</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >
<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I want to tell you everything I didn't know until it happened to me!</span>
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<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">It's only a Little Deal if you catch it right away...I mean RIGHT Away! </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>--Oh who are we kidding?!? It's NEVER A LITTLE DEAL!!!</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lyme Disease is a Spirochete</span></span> (pronounced Spiro-keet). </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The Spirochete is the <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >demon devil</span> of all bacterial infections <span style="font-weight: bold;">if</span> it's not treated very early and aggressively. </span>
<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prevention is really your BEST hope! Why?</span></span> </p><strong>* Deer ticks are very tiny and often go unnoticed. </strong>
<br /><strong>* You WON'T feel a tick crawling on you! They're designed that way.</strong>
<br /><strong><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></strong><strong>* You WON'T feel it dig in/numbing agents in their saliva.</strong>
<br /><strong>* Ticks "unplug" themselves after 2-5 days & Tiptoe away. </strong>
<br /><strong>* Chronic Lyme is very difficult & costly to Treat/Detect.</strong>
<br /><strong>* 80% don't catch the tick & over 50% do NOT get a rash/clue they have Lyme!</strong>
<br /><strong>* Lyme Disease attacks-Joints-Central Nervous System-Heart-Brain!</strong>
<br /><strong>* Some have lost jobs-homes-families-health-LIVES to Lyme.</strong>
<br /><strong>* If you get this, you may never be able to get proper treatment, and you'll never know if it's because your doctor doesn't know better, or because your HMO has threatened her/him.</strong>
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<br /><strong>***********<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kDDlBMFUC54C&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=wealthy+lyme+patients&source=bl&ots=wg13cr1URh&sig=3b2C9H2QFRbbG9UgSUCc6PUwEw4&hl=en&ei=xIMuSrSDPI2yMcb8sPcJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3"><span style="font-size:130%;">CLICK HERE for Google Books "Cure Unknown" </span></a>***********</strong>
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>"Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic" -Page 302 </strong></span>
<br /><p><strong>A quick synopsis (same facts cited) by Brook Landau </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Daryl Hall (Hall & </strong><strong>Oates)</strong></span><strong> HE too was BITTEN and ILL<span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdqSWJ8m4L0">-->ClickHere</a><--</span></strong></p>Lyme has been compared to Syphilis, but<strong> THIS SPIROCHETE is 25 TIMES LARGER</strong>
<br />than the Syphilis spirochete, and MUCH harder to kill!
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">See:
<br /></span></strong><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_258/ai_n8592734/?tag=content;col1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">"Potential Plague of The 21st Century! LINK HERE<--</span>
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<br />This is for anyone who is <span style="font-weight: bold;">ever</span> bitten by a tick:
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<br /><p>What you need to know if you want to live a long, healthy life afterward! </p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >(And no, I'm not selling anything :)</span> </span>
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<br /></p><p>I would like to share my experience so those that everyone else would know how medical professionals are performing when facing Lyme Disease threats in May of 2009. <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >It seems that education, awareness, (& in some cases, incentive)--and therefore proper treatment are severely lacking among those we count on most to look after our health.</span> </p><p>So it's up to US to get informed and know what we need. (Names of <span style="font-size:78%;">honorable Lyme groups at end of blog.)</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">On Friday morning</span>, I was in a pre-op room</strong> when I let my doctor know I'd discovered a deer tick (still embedded) in my left ankle while preparing to head into surgery. Since the procedure was to involve a spinal puncture and an injection of steroids, my doctor decided it would be safer to wait and make sure I'd not contracted an infection from the tick. She sent me to urgent care instead. I had the deer tick removed in urgent care (mostly so it would be established in my medical record that I have had a confirmed exposure). Of course, my husband whimsically noted that all our insurance company will see is that they sent in an anesthesiologist, and started an IV, and then removed a tiny deer tick!
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<br /><p>But, this <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Urgent Care doctor</span>,</strong> though he was kind and genuinely seemed to care about what he was doing, <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">made three mistakes</span></strong>. He removed it by grabbing the body & pulling straight out with tweezers, and then went back in to get the parts left behind. He did not offer antibiotics, and advised that I could receive treatment if I developed symptoms. It did not occur to him to check my other ankle.
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<br />This was Friday and it had been in at least since Wednesday (when I went outside unprotected to get between some children and a horse). Then Saturday <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I found a second tick in my right ankle! </span></span>Unable to remove it with tweezers (my Gawd-was this disgusting! Know what's worse? Ticks may "PUKE" into you if you use oils or chemicals), I went back online and learned of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Tick Twister" </span>and called to make sure they had it, & went to PetCo to buy one. Of course, I had my tiny dog in my arms, so the cashier had to ask, "So, your dog has a tick?" and I had to admit, "No, the dog came home with none. It's in <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">me</span>." </span>
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<br /><p>If you find yourself with a Tick in spite of your efforts, NOTHING is better than the Tick Twister for removing the tick quickly and intact. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*Keeping a Tick intact lessens the chance of forcing more disease from the tick into you!</span></strong>
<br />Tick Twister also lets you be a few inches farther from the little bugger if you're at all squeamish about little bugs/spiders/arachnids like I am! </p>I hooked it on, and turned three times counterclockwise three times, as instructed and...
<br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">TaDa! ...Eeeew!!!!!!</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> </span>
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<br />This thing removes the tick quickly, easily, and totally intact. I was amazed at how active and fast these things are, as <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">it crawled around in the container as fast as an ant!</span></span>
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<br /><p>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tick Twister is a fabulous tool, so I wanted to mention it.</span> (It's a tiny green hammer-hook looking tool-look it up.)
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<br />The urgent care doc who had removed the first one said that prophylactic treatment did not make sense, and to wait to see if I develop symptoms. <strong>Not knowing any better, I said, "sure". </strong>
<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Now-with a second tick removed after a minimum of 72 hours embedded</span></strong>, I did a little research, and I really wanted prophylactic treatment. Monday morning, I called my regular doctor, through her nurse, but when they did not get right back to me, I went to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Walgreen's Take Care Clinic </span>near my home. This nurse practitioner was SO on the ball!
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<br />I showed her my photos, <span style="font-weight: bold;">(always take photos) </span>and then she out-performed both of the other doctors by leaps and bounds. She instantly knew there was a prophylactic treatment protocol, before I even told her. </p><p>Now, BOTH of the other doctors I'd consulted for this are GOOD doctors who listen to and CARE about their patients, but in dealing with LYME disease, be aware that your life and your health for the rest of your life are on the line. With a lack of consistant information, even the best doctors are at a disadvantage!</p><p>By the time my doctor's office got back to me (late afternoon), I had seen someone else, and had already taken the needed medication.
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<br />STILL, a single dose is nowhere near enough, but at least it's a start, and at this point, it was ALL <strong>anyone</strong> was willing to give me. </p><p>Add to this the fact that<strong> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">my</span> doctor had her nurse let me know that she was not planning to give treatment</span></strong> unless I developed symptoms, and it's clear that the walk-in clinic was the way to go, until I could get set up with an LLMD. Yet again, being an <span style="font-weight: bold;">informed patient</span>, (<em>and having a stroke of luck</em>) paid off big! </p><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Bear in mind that when the Urgent Care doc rattled of the symptoms I should look for, "headaches, stiff neck, muscle aches, fatigue, memory loss, joint pain, etc...." I said, "How will I *know*? This is the EXACT list of symptoms that I came to CINN to try to handle."</span></span>
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<br /><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Thank God my wonderful CINN doctor would *not* allow the anestesiologist to pressure her into proceeding with the spinal injection with a tick protruding from my ankle! Are you KIDDING me?</span></span></p><p>My husband heard their debate on the other side of the door. Thank GOD he was there!</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >This was the beginning of a Journey, though--unfortunately not the end.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To: Horse Lovers, Tick Victims and..."Anyone who may benefit!" </span></span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-health/preventing-ticks-4822.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Ticks are in high concentration when you're anywhere near a horse! You *and* the horse can get Lyme Disease! Click Here </span></a></span>
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<br /><strong><a href="http://www.lyme.org/otherdis/ld_pets.html">Did you know that your DOG (or cat) can catch Lyme Disease from a tick too? </a><a href="http://www.lyme.org/otherdis/ld_pets.html">Take precautions.</a></strong> Transplacental transmission has occured (mother to newborn) in dogs. Don't doubt it can happen in humans. </p><p>This link below will tell you: How to protect yourself in the first place,
<br /><a href="http://www.sewill.org/protect.html" target="_blank">http://www.sewill.org/protect.html</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span></a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***At first I was excited and relieved that there might be a fast, cheap & easy protection against Lyme***(and other tick borne pathogens)</span>...and then I read more carefully:</span> </span>
<br />Journal Watch Began that paragraph with, <strong>"...<span style="font-size:180%;">prior studies have found no benefit to this approach</span><em><span style="font-size:130%;"> (TWO to be exact)</span></em>
<br /></strong><a href="http://infectious-diseases.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2001/622/1">http://infectious-diseases.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2001/622/1</a>
<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(JWID 2000, p. 76, accession number 000921004, and Clin Infect Dis 2000; 31:1), a report newly released by the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline provides effective prophylaxis."</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:180%;" ><strong>It's CURIOUS....Were they $ilenced Too???</strong></span>
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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One thing is certain. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Repugnant as it was removing these creepy littl</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">e 8-legged creatures from my skin, AFTER they were out was when I *really* opened up a can of worms...</span></span>
<br /></p><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 234px; display: block; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348705165114634322" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghJeIq3WK3UKzgSb57HlYeeBhleeE0XNYwK1US2mOTKO7y1axbzLi_2V3E2BAyDPCoWtRbbk6bu_3gVR-5JhvuOME9M23WS1zTZmjF8GbFcl7FQ1S0EtAS6HwzfK7WVu_eXWmbtk7EWT7o/s400/canofworms1.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">****I used to believe that when not treated early, Lyme patients suffered from knee joint pain, but knew little else of what was really going on.</span> **** </span></span>
<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Up until now, <span style="font-size:180%;">I just thought that those suffering from Advanced Lyme Disease were people who didn't get to a doctor in time!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By this time, my bites began to blister. First the tiny bite on the right leg filled with fluid. Then the left one went from looking like a well-healing tiny hole to filling with fluid too. I had to really search hard to find a doctor who would know what to do or even believe any treatment was warranted.
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<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I could in no way afford to fantasize that I'd just been bitten by two sterile ticks!
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<br /><p>Be aware that Lyme is in all 50 states, and is widely known to be seriously underestimated. </p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.turnthecorner.org/lyme-disease-treatment-guidelines.htm">LYME DISEASE TREATMENT and FACTS<--Click Here</a></span></strong></p><p>I don't *hike, *camp , or spend much time outdoors. I was bitten while outdoors near a horse, not even in an established "hot spot"state/area. DON'T think there's a state in the union that is not affected. *<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">People have picked up ticks/Lyme Disease while gardening in their own backyards in every single state.</span>
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The more I learned, the more deeply shocked I became.<span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Guidelines for treating Lyme were deliberately made </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">cheap and ineffective! The <strong>Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) was investigated.</strong> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:0pt;"><span style="font-size:180%;">It was discovered </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:0pt;"><span style="font-size:180%;">and The Connecticut Attorney General confirmed that<strong> 9/14 IDSA members<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:0pt;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>had "undisclosed financial interests".</strong> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:0pt;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Translation: <strong>They made $Money$ by keeping patients ill and dying so that their Health Insurance would not have to pay for the needed treatment.</strong></span></span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html">
<br /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html"><span style="font-size:180%;">Fox News Release regarding IDSA causing Lyme </span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html">Disease patients to be denied effective treatment!</a>
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<br /><p><a href="http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html" target="_blank">http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354168,00.html</a>
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<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">I asked my LymeNet friends</span>, </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><em>"IS LYME <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FATAL</span>?"</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><em>-</em>THEY GAVE ME THESE LINKS TO THREE </span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><em>Lyme Memorial Sites</em></span>:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >♥♥♥<a href="http://www.lymememorial.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:100%;">http://www.lymememorial.org/</span></a> </span></span></span>
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<br /><div class="details">Of course I had one removed in Urgent Care on Friday, and found the other on Saturday, and removed it with the "tick twister" and saved it in What else? A TicTac box! LOL-- I froze them both for later testing should I become ill (again, learned on the internet).
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<br /><div class="details"><strong>Tick Twister is under $4.</strong> at PetCo and a wise investment when anywhere NEAR tall grasses or horses or woods, or anywhere ticks are found. </div>
<br /><div class="row">This thing is SO tiny that the photo had to be taken with a macro zoom lens so I could tell it wasn't a freckle or a tiny scab from a shaving mishap. Only....<em><strong>I realized I hadn't shaved in a while, so I was very suspicious.
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<br /><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"></span></span></div><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">There are NO states that are without Lyme.</span> And...YES birds know the way to Canada too! And NO, they DON'T have to stop at Customs!</span>
<br /></div><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Note that tick borne diseases are spreading faster than the maps can be updated AND that REPORTING is FLAWED. Remember:<span style="font-size:180%;">*I STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR 10 MINUTES IN THE Midwest and brought home TWO Lyme positive ticks* </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I wasn't even in a state "known" to be a "hot spot"-- Don't rely on others and their reporting---Your safety will come from prevention, not the "absence'' in any given area.</span></span></div>
<br /><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">*</span>Lyme Disease is far more common than you think and even <em>more prevalent than AIDS. <span style="font-size:180%;">Lyme Disease is *the number one growing infectious disease in the United States.</span> </em>Lyme Disease is Grossly Under-reported and Often Under-treated! Listen to the Man who DISCOVERED the organism causing Lyme Disease (</span><i><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31967">Borrelia burgdorferi</a></i> Willy Burgdorfer, as he was interviewed by the makers of the film, "Under Our Skin":
<br /><a href="http://underourskin.com/blog/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Lyme discoverer Willy Burgdorfer breaks silence on heated controversy</span></a> <--click here! </div>
<br /><div class="row"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interview Excerpt: "Just as we began filming, there was a pounding on the door, and we found ourselves facing someone who turned out to be a top researcher at the nearby </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/dir/rml/">Rocky Mountain Laboratories</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, a biolevel-4 NIH research facility. Standing on the porch, our uninvited guest said, “I’ve been told that I need to supervise this interview. This comes from the highest levels. There are things that Willy can’t talk about.”</span> </div>
<br /><div class="row"><span style="font-size:180%;">LYME DISEASE Prevention Warnings are EVERYWHERE </span>
<br />Yet... Odd how everyone has no trouble expressing the need for caution about ticks in terms of prevention, but then once it becomes too late for that, <strong>the treatment of Lyme Disease is expensive if it's not handled soon after exposure, so once people become *really* ill, some people decided it costs too much to treat it so, "Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't really exist".</strong>
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<br /><div class="details"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQg2QfDfSHY&feature=channel_page"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">Yes, you read that right. U.S. Health Insurance companies have denied coverage for people who've received ineffective treatment and devoloped Chronic Lyme Disease. Leslie Wermers is seen here paying tribute to others who have lost their lives after being denied Lyme treatment.</span>
<br /></span></strong></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQg2QfDfSHY&feature=channel_page"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 134px; float: left; height: 200px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348299456210500242" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpRb4tq3U3DTOnTaEN3L6WuvImKT_EoPfEbfVpkW6K5u5Rr0p77wBoQRbft45DU8HKzPNTNbql4nR4wKZkFk4x0MhJny4uACBSLV6CGOORS429OzQiFAigCuNcOUxwwVS_J3FEIxO9hgi/s200/IOWA_LD_MEMORIAL_003_306160441.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjvBMtz-v10&feature=PlayList&p=52C03B45F7145829&index=0">
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<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjvBMtz-v10&feature=PlayList&p=52C03B45F7145829&index=0"><span style="font-size:180%;">Last November, Leslie herself Died at age 41, of Lyme Disease in her HEART.</span></a> ********************
<br />DON'T Wait until it affects someone you love to take action. </span></strong>Remember some, maybe even most people never see the tick on them, and<strong> 60% or more never get the BULLS-EYE rash </strong>associated with Lyme Disease Onset. Accurate testing can be elusive.
<br />And with the cost of effective treatment being so high...
<br />Imagine multiple 30 day courses of IV antibiotics. Even THIS is not always enough! </div>
<br /><div class="details"></div><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5C83YS1LLE&feature=channel_page"><span style="font-size:180%;">Click here to see what it took to Save BROOK Landau!</span></a></strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span>
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<br /><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>So what did the Scientists do under pressure to keep the COST of TREATMENT down? Why, they lied of course! Money has Bought the Science that dictates treatmet!
<br /></strong></span><a href="http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?a=2795&q=414284"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >SCIENTISTs we are supposed to be able to trust are LYING FOR MONEY</span></strong></a>
<br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The "IDSA" -- Infectious Disease Society of America set treatment guidelines that were flawed (cheap, but ineffective) because of <span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?a=2795&q=414284">*undisclosed financial interests*<--Link Here)</a></span></span></strong></div>
<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >held by at least nine of their fourteen members setting the guidelines! People have been denied treatment while they worsened, or died.</span></strong></div><div class="details"></div>
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<br /><div class="row">Here's a photo I found on the net when I searched for "nymphal deer tick photos", <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilpoALBDMUOjJFH1kPPk5jt43oiN55U_KFu0HjLVHWdjcx00r7wavu44IPxZDoMIXp1yAYvoeKgKoExeJWKvUxX0URqNUqh_LVdRgCQreQFp_RiY9Qb3CIZJwcUSsG8329CyhlVN76n4A/s1600-h/mp_main_wide_AdultNymphDeerTick452.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 127px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344075941806868930" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilpoALBDMUOjJFH1kPPk5jt43oiN55U_KFu0HjLVHWdjcx00r7wavu44IPxZDoMIXp1yAYvoeKgKoExeJWKvUxX0URqNUqh_LVdRgCQreQFp_RiY9Qb3CIZJwcUSsG8329CyhlVN76n4A/s200/mp_main_wide_AdultNymphDeerTick452.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div>
<br /><div class="row"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Nymph Deer Tick is on the LEFT, See how TINY they are ???</span>
<br /></span>*Now* do you know why I'm on high alert? Don't worry. I am using "the power of positive thinking", but I do this with full knowledge and understanding of what's at stake, and what to to watch for and what to do if I do get ill. The hardest thing to find was a doctor who knows and cares enough to treat Lyme Disease.
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<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Early and agressive treatment is crucial.</strong> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><a href="http://www.turnthecorner.org/lyme-disease-treatment-guidelines.htm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:180%;" >NO STUDY has EVER supported 30 days or LESS of antibiotics!</span><--Click Here-and scroll down to number 5.</strong></a><strong>
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<br /><div class="details">Understand that there is a big difference between being "on high alert" and being paranoid. </div><div class="details"></div><div class="details"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><div class="details"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Staying informed and being persistent is the key.</span>
<br /></strong>Lyme Disease is a tricky insidious thing to fight. These SPIROCHETES rarely show up in blood, instead, they hide deep inside of vital organs. An ounce of prevention is clearly worth a pound of cure here. </div>
<br /><div class="details">I then rushed off to a doctor (nurse practitioner) who was (fortunately for me), well informed. She got the medication started, and then I searched out an LLMD for the rest.
<br />An LLMD is a "Lyme Literate Medical Doctor". The name implies that he *knows* more about Lyme, and he does. But, more importantly is the fact that he *cares* about treating Lyme patients.
<br /></div><div class="details">Now all I have to do is take my medication, watch for symptoms....and pray.
<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Remember, there is the fact that I had TWO nymphal deer ticks. Additional measures may be in order.)</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS303US303&q=+lyme+2006+settlement&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi="><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Below is the link to the settlement statement containing the truth about how money influenced physicians to ignore and allow Lyme Disease to destroy lives or even kill its victims!</span></strong> </span></a>
<br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS303US303&q=+lyme+2006+settlement&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=">Just look for a second at this page!</a> --><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS303US303&q=+lyme+2006+settlement&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS303US303&q=+lyme+2006+settlement&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=</a>
<br /><span style="font-size:180%;">This disturbs me. There was a "settlement" reached, as if there'd been a mere "conflict" rather than a pure FRAUD that cost precious American lives!</span></div><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div>
<br /><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;">We Americans have lived in a sweet safe little era in medicine, with antibiotics for everything. For the longest time, all doctors seemed to care and know how to treat all infections---until NOW.</span>
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<br /><div class="details"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><strong>The IDSA doctors BEFORE "Financial Intrerests", when they Readily Admit the danger of the Lyme Spirochete!</strong> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.lymenotme.blogspot.com/">Read Their Own Words<---Click Here</a></span></div>
<br /><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div class="details">NOTE that a "SPIROCHETE" (pronounced SPIROKEET) is among the worst bacterial infections one can get. They are <strong>*hard to kill*</strong> once they take hold. SO....I wrote a little poem for my ticks. LOL... Didn't ya just know I'd write something like this? </div>
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<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">SCRAM!~You little SPIROCHETE! </span></strong></div>
<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I am the one you won't defeat! </span></strong></div>
<br /><div class="details"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">You crossed state lines, and rode me for days, </span></strong></div>
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Special Thanks to the Wonderful people of LymeNet and the International Lime & Associated Disease Society (ILADS) and the Lyme Disease Association (LDA) for their generousity, Wisdom and Insights</strong>! Be EVER CAREFUL who you trust for Lyme Treatment Information! <strong>The people I've met have no other motive </strong>than to see people recovered and Lyme Disease erradicated. Be especially wary of people selling things touted to "cure" Lyme disease without antibiotics.</span></div>
<br /><div class="details"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:180%;" ><strong>Even wonderfully talented, brilliant (Joy Luck Club) writer*Amy Tan* has battled Chronic Lyme Disease, getting very sick before they found it. <a href="http://www.amytan.net/LymeDisease.aspx"><---He</a></strong><strong><a href="http://www.amytan.net/LymeDisease.aspx">r Story Here</a></strong></span></span></div><div class="details"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Someone make it stop. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtpty2WCo0&feature=related"><strong><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 424px; float: left; height: 238px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348923483712551186" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRRx_fvRrHTR_JVTeH_XGQyybTI4nprKa3xs7-k6lic8bXbh4pNEYkbqO2ZYaudU1oVljb1P6HtPWzZpeb0dGdx0YBGP_DLIloM-ucf-xaYHDZFNExjFATRowFeTS20DBktGkRUCFYpDm/s400/under_our_skin_274181449_std.jpg" border="0" /></strong></a>
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Lyme disease is THE FASTEST Spreading Infectious Disease in America! Bigger than H1N1, West Nile, Bigger than AIDS! Why, oh why don't we know until BITTEN??? </span></strong><strong><a href="http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/under_our_skin/"><span style="font-size:130%;">Lyme disease is <span style="font-size:180%;">*Especially Dangerous for PREGNANT moms and Babies</span>! </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><---CLICK HERE</span></a></strong>
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<br /><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Uncanny timing? (..that I came home from a brief outing with two Lyme Positive ticks NOW) ...Or maybe it's as prevalent as everyone is trying to tell us it is! I WIll SEE THIS MOVIE! I will bring tissue. I will tell everyone! PLEASE do it too!</strong></span></div>
<br /><div class="details"><span style="font-size:180%;"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code --><strong><a href="http://www.underourskin.com/screenings.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Under Our Skin Screenings Click Here<--</span></a></strong></span></div><p>P.S. Guided by the people of ILADS I sent my ticks to Clongen Labs for testing. </p><p>JUNE 26, 2009 ----<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpAtnCLmrxp6r8IxrS-ARwUAy1-j1xLw79w_w_Xk8TXZg4fjGf1nTOYFLGjJ4GcwKcbcCEj4y3GMeS1U92YebpF0tVuKHPzGQKkcK8KSLdP9LZpUrayLNzV1JQYhVKUfoQYguOdQajNb3/s1600-h/blog+snip+positive.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px; float: left; height: 218px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352247810003143026" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpAtnCLmrxp6r8IxrS-ARwUAy1-j1xLw79w_w_Xk8TXZg4fjGf1nTOYFLGjJ4GcwKcbcCEj4y3GMeS1U92YebpF0tVuKHPzGQKkcK8KSLdP9LZpUrayLNzV1JQYhVKUfoQYguOdQajNb3/s400/blog+snip+positive.JPG" border="0" /></a>I JUST got the results from tests performed on the two ticks that lived on my legs for days... they were POSITIVE FOR Lyme Disease. Burgdoferi. THINK about it. When was the LAST time doctors have been challenged by an illness named by a LIVING scientist?!?!?</p>
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<br /><p>Luckily, my child had already changed into cowboy boots and jeans, and seems to have emerged tick free, but knowing how fast and easily it happened to me, she will learn from my mistake. Sometimes in life, we are amazingly fortunate and given a precious gift. I can't let anything happen to her. I am sure other parents who are not outdoors types, end up outside for short periods in similar situations.</p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>WARNING...Lyme disease is a SPIROCHETE.</strong> The only other such organism known to cause this kind of devastation was the spirochete that causes Syphilis. You all KNOW what happened to those who went untreated, and end up with spirochetes disseminated throughout their brains, nervous systems, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>You wouldn't DREAM of advising a syphilis patient to skip the antibiotics and try this or that made up remedy.</strong> Can you just SEE this happening for Tuberculosis (TB)?!?!? Until antibiotics, EVERY TB patient died. They called it "consumption" because it consumed them a little at a time, in a slow, painful death. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Look up the long term permanent damage from syphilis spirochetal infections, and you SHOULD UNDERSTAND the harm of ignoring Lyme disease. Both spirochetes masquerade as SOME other illness when they move in for the kill. DON'T let fraudulant science sentence others to a slow and painful death. BUT...IMPORTANT difference: <strong>The LYME DISEASE Spirochete Organism IS 25 TIMES Bigger than Syphilis and MUCH TOUGHER TO KILL! Lyme is the most DANGEROUS pathogen attacking the people of America.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_258/ai_n8592734/">(Link HERE FOR DETAILS on the danger of LYME "Potential Plague of The 21st Century": ~ HIGHLY scientific literature)</a></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">For Honorable, Reputable organizations, with NO other motive than to see people relieved of debilitating illness and premature death, see these organizations, and the ones they link into:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.lymenet.org/">http://www.lymenet.org/</a> * </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.ilads.org/">http://www.ilads.org/</a> * <a href="http://www.turnthecorner.org/">http://www.turnthecorner.org/</a> *www.lymeblog.com </span></p><p>Questions or comments welcome at <a href="mailto:tickedoffliterally@gmail.com">tickedoffliterally@gmail.com</a> </p><div class="details">For further updates regarding the <strong>medical journey</strong>, see <a href="http://www.tickedliterally.blogspot.com/">http://www.tickedliterally.blogspot.com/</a> Have fun and stay safe!<a href="http://www.easycounter.com/">
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