December 2011
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“it’s wrong what people say about dying. i’m not flashing back over...”
– Dexter
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“Keep your eye on the prize of happiness, even when caught in the eye of the...”
– Karen Salmansohn
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Lyme Disease Patient Survey →
take before dec. 31st!!!
If you haven’t taken LymeDisease.org’s patient survey yet, please take a moment to share your views. The patient perspective on Lyme treatment options is largely ignored by the medical establishment. With information from this important survey, we hope to change that!
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“Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of...”
– Karen Salmansohn
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I despise Eugene Shapiro →
The question of “chronic” Lyme disease poses a different conundrum for clinicians. Although medically unexplained symptoms are common in these patients, most who complain of “chronic” Lyme disease have no evidence of ever having had the disease, based on history or serologic tests, he said. “We doctors are very good at treating diseases, but we are very poor at...
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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
“Basically, after the assault my automatic tendency was to keep all people at a...”
– Karen Salmansohn
“It seems one thing has been true all along: you don’t really know what you got...”
– Fort Minor - Where’d you go? | Submitted by phoenixfeelings (via quote-book)
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"Often the greatest happiness..
..in life comes from going through a crisis- and growing into a stronger, better person.”
This is a quote in The Bounce Back Book. the author continued in regards to it about how Aristotle, a great philosopher, wrote in great detail about this concept and where true happiness really comes from.
This one line of a quote really, really opened my eyes. It literally made me smile, because, I...
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“That’s when it hit me. In life, you always have a choice. Be weak or be...”
– The Bounce Back Book (Karen Salmansohn)
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“It occurred to her, in the spooky hour between two and three A.M., with only the...”
– The Art of Saying Goodbye
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The Art of Saying Goodbye
I just started reading this book (by Ellyn Bache) because when I first found it by random, the title really struck me. ‘Saying goodbye’ is something i’ve always had a real difficulty with and still can’t handle very well at all. I thought this could be a pretty insightful book for me. Then i read the back cover, and i felt even more connected to it. A group of women’s...
“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath (via imfantasyparade)
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Medical College Researcher to Focus on Lyme... →
Many patients are not diagnosed for weeks or months, and untreated cases can lead to permanent neurological impairment. In this research project, Dr. Coburn will study a protein named P66, which is a part of the bacterium which causes Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi. P66 has been shown to be critical to the ability of the bacterium to cause infection in mammals. Learning more about this...
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“My favorite part about Christmas was spending time with my family. I love my...”
– Gabby, my 6 year old sister 💗
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“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
– Emily Haines (via quote-book)
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All I Want For Christmas Is...
a cure.
🎁
no but really, i see these status updates floating around Facebook that you’re supposed to re-post if you “care” all the time that say things along the lines of “all a Cancer patient wants is to feel better, a cure, not to be sick anymore” etc.. Cancer is one of the most deadliest diseases out there, but let’s be real- anyone who is sick, depressed,...
“I like to think that if you put your trust out there, I mean if you really give...”
– Our Idiot Brother
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Whenever I’m on a train I wonder where everyone Is going. Why are they going there? Maybe theyre going home to their family, to visit a friend or meet up with the person they love. Then I wonder what their life is like. Are their parents alive? Have they experienced tragedy? Are they fighting against disease for their own life? Are the happy, In love or alone? I wonder what they know about Lyme...
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Gel in the Works for Tick’s infectious Disease →
..researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology in Leipzig are developing a medication in close cooperation with the Swiss Company, Ixodes AG, and the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich - to nip the infection in the bud, so to speak.
This medication, in a form of a gel, will be applied directly over the...
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“The days that made me, that were supposed to change me, that didn’t actually...”
– “Fall” by Colin McAdam (via quote-book)
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Virginia Rep Pushes CDC on Lyme Disease →
Wolf, who pushed for the language in the bill, has long been an advocate for victims of Lyme disease. He has hosted forums in the 10th District to help educate area residents about the dangers of Lyme and how to protect themselves from tick bites. In addition, he encouraged Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to establish a Lyme disease task force to examine how Virginians can prevent and treat...
“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we...”
– Tom Perrotta (via quote-book)
i don’t doubt it..
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PA Lyme Bill Approved! →
Legislation designed to promote better treatment of and education about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses was approved by the House Human Services Committee and sent to the floor, Rep. Dick Hess (R-Bedford/Fulton/Huntingdon) said Wednesday. Hess ushered the bill through the committee process, culminating in a nearly unanimous vote of 19 to 1.
“There is strong bipartisan support to...
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Debra Morgan on Love
Deb: It's just clear to me now and I want it to be clear to him, I want him to understand.
Therapist: You want to tell him how you feel in a way that he hears you.
Deb: Yes.. Is this how it feels to be in control of your emotions?
Therapist: But you can't control his... You don't know how he's going to react..
“imagination is more important than knowledge”
– albert einstein
Don’t tell me my grandma died of liver cancer because she drank alcohol too much. She didn’t even drink, and you didnt even know her.
This is why I hate doctors, and I’ve always disliked my GI doctor. So many doctors think they literally know everything but they’re really just cocky assholes who only have one perspective and judge their patients. Too many doctors...
Better Days- Goo Goo Dolls
You ask me what I...
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because you can
don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. that you’re not strong enough, or smart enough, or healthy enough. through the course of my Lyme disease i have been in conditions where my doctor’s were perplexed as to how i continued to remain in school and pass my courses. and this semester, i finally got myself back on Dean’s List. and this semester was...
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Medical Myth or Chronic Condition? Lyme Disease →
Many doctors in Kansas do not believe the disease exists. “It’s sad I feel worthless, helpless I guess..”
“I love that feeling. You know, the one you get when you take a deep breath and...”
– The X (via ishainparis)
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health is wealth.
seriously though
thanks for the replies about hyperbaric treatment. i don’t know how to respond directly to them.. i dont even know how to add comments on other peoples posts haha oblivious much.. anyways, this weekend was relaxing and family oriented and i absolutely adored it. plus, my baby sister was in the nutcracker ballet this weekend- it was the cutest thing ever. but i still don’t feel...
