There are presently 3 million sufferers of Lyme.
No presidential candidate has ever addressed them. Many of those with Lyme are too young to vote, but they have parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, and friends. It is all too clear to those people how alike the PWL can be to those with Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's, or Parkinson's (strangely, we don't say, Lyme's, but this is an anomaly among diseases -- we just say, has Lyme!).
The recent documentary by Andy Abrahams Wilson entitled "Under Our Skin" which aired last week on PBS, drew my attention anew to the problem of the PWL.
3 million sufferers! Who will be their Moses? There were only 600,000 Jews who got out of Egypt.
3 million people! That's the population of Norway!
The most acute problem is the chronic sufferer. Because the AMA refuses to recognize Lyme as a chronic condition, those who cannot rid themselves of Borelia Burgdorfia via a fast round of antibiotics fall into a no-man's land of illness not recognized by the AMA (whom sufferers claim are well-paid by insurance companies to deny the condition's existence!), and there is no political movement (it affects Democrats and Republicans alike so has not become a hot partisan issue either for BO or for the leading Republicans).
Some claim it is sexually transmitted, but unless it affects a powerful and vocal political minority it will never matter to the CDC.
The PWL constituency has no identifiable means of calling attention to themselves aside from a few atomized science writers and specialty clinics. Dr.s who define someone's condition as Chronic Lyme are hounded out of the AMA via their kangaroo courts. Anyone who dares to speak up risks ostracism or loss of their license.
And yet some doctors have claimed that Alzheimers, Lou Gehrigs, ALS, and Parkinsons victims have one common root: Borelia Burgdorferi is found in all of the sufferers.
A cousin of syphilis, Borelia Burgdorferi often has a different transmission route: via Bambi and Mickey.
Wipe out Bambi, and there is no more room for Borelia Burgdorferi to hide. However, Bambi has powerful political backers: hunters, NRA, Sierra Club, to name a few. So Bambi lives, and on Bambi, lives Borelia Burgdorferi.
Mickey Mice have fewer political backers. But they are cagey and quicker and difficult to hit from the air with drones and helicopter funfire.
More information can be found here at the documentary's site:
www.underourskin.com
There is also a newish movie with Alec Baldwin entitled LymeLife, about a family who all have the disease. I have not viewed this movie, as I am too offended by the light tone in the trailer. Lyme is a tragedy not a comedy:
http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/2460/Lymelife-Trailer
18 comments:
my daughter now has one more week to take the antibiotic doxycycline
when she first saw the 'bulls-eye' she went to The Doctor.
it was obvious to all of us what this indicated.
SO this Moron doctor instead of immediately doing the antibotic took a blood test to
CONFIRM Lyme
TWO WEEKS LATER he called with the lab test
"it s positive for Lyme " and put her on the meds.
about two weeks into this antibiotic regimen she was getting dizzy..
called the doctor he yelled at her "why are you calling me... go to the emergency room"
so she did. they concluded that this doctor as I concluded is a MORON.
I am not going to tell you what I will do to this doctor if she doesn't recover !
I'm gonna ram my fist so far up his ass that he'll have to open his mouth to shit!
Ed, I understand your impatience, but this is apparently theinsurance companies who create these confusions, not the doctors. Be patient and kind to the doctors. Many doctors won't treat Lyme because the turnaround is so slow, and patients get violent, which in turn makes them even more reluctant. Think of the doctor's next patient, and be patient. The stiatuion with the insurance comapnies is terrible. It will be worse when the government gets in the game. This is because there will be even less money to go around, and many conditions will not be on their grid.
i guess ed is just being proctocal
i don't know
maybe i'd be ticked too
every illness is an ordeal
no matter what
welcome back to the fray ed
finally someone with some sense around here
yo
jh
this Dr,s FIRTST DUTY is to do no harm (to his patient)
he should have IMMEDIATELY prescribed the antibiotic AS A GENERIC AND THEN waited for the blood test
confirmation !
I mean $12 worth of pills ? no need for the lawyers-insurance crooks to get involved
BESIDES
this doctor has been our family doctor for about 40 years !!!
a lawyer fiend told us that we could sue this moron based on that oath that he took to "do no harm"
there is NO confusion about about any of this..
the problem is that we have become a culture of SHEEP !
:we as a people don't even have the balls to be rebels much less revolutionaries...
so far about 22 relatives of ours have called this doctor and told him that they are dropping him..
just maybe he will .... wake up... ( I doubt it .. as
he's been lobotomized just like the most of the rest of us ...
Trust in the Government/big Business/big Pharm & above & beyond ... trust in The Lord ( that Invisible "being" up on Cloud Nine.... what a crock we've become !
I've posted on Lyme before, and we've had arguments about it. Here is some more data, from those other posts:
Lyme Disease receives a scant .02% of funding from the Center for Disease Control.
Nearly 3 million people have the disease in this country. Many of those are children. The reason they got the disease? They were playing outside. They get sick for decades, and lose all the quality of their lives. Lyme is not able to be cured at present. With the scanty funding it receives, it is likely to be a disease that continues to grow.
Meanwhile, more than 50% of the CDC's funding goes to combatting sexual diseases. While Lyme Disease gets about 6 million dollars a year, AIDS gets 20 billion dollars from the CDC. What causes AIDS? It's because of the Sexual Revolution and the drug fascination of the 1960s, and the notion that "if it feels good, do it."
The progressives love sex. Their famous phrase was, "Make love, not war." The result? The Center for Disease Control spends more than 50% of its budget on sexual diseases. Whatever happened to evolution? Should people who are reckless die off? If you can only save one, a child who got sick for playing outside, and an adult who shared needles to inject heroin in his eyeballs after having rough, reckless, anonymous sex, which would you choose? The CDC has chosen the reckless sex and drug addict.
A child will go skipping around the block, and play on the swings, after doing her homework. A tick gets on her leg, and she gets sick. The CDC could care less. Meanwhile, an adult will lie down in bushes in a public park and share a needle, and then get anal sex from twenty partners. This results in AIDS. It cannot be said that the CDC does not have empathy. But why is all the empathy for one group?
I'd like to know why the CwL has been thrown under the bus by the CDC.
NB: It's not just the CDC of course. It's also the AMA which is protecting the insurance industry. There's something called the ISDS which regulates insurance compensation for specific diseases. 14 doctors were used to get almost no funding in for Lyme. Doctors have to first take a test of the victim which takes two weeks or so to get back, then one round of antibiotics is all that can be administrated (apparently).
So they're slow to administer relief (by which point the disease has had a chance to secure itself in the new host) and then the equivalent of a cap gun is fired, and it's supposed to be all over.
At this point the Lyme community is struggling to form itself into an identity that the politicians will take care of. About 1% of Americans have Lyme. Meanwhile about .33 of 1% of Americans have AIDS.
AIDS is of course far more profoundly destructive and is sexually transmitted so it threatens to become endemic especially as all our movies and educators want a Foucauldian madhouse of sexuality among the population. Drug users too are glamorized.
So someone has to make that possibility even if it mans a war that makes Afghanistan look like a picnic.
Lyme is something that is spread by tiny ticks on Bambi, and once it hits an individual goes no further and the people who get it are often people in suburban areas, thus white, and unlikely to stoke sympathy among the rgc folks.
At least in terms of r and c, these people deserve to suffer.
Women are not disproportionately affected, either, so that population can't start screaming about discrimination.
Meanwhile, Ed's daughter has been affected and he wants to injure the doctor either through his pocketbook or whatever. But I doubt if the doctor had any control over what he did.
He was following protocols established by the AMA.
If he goes outside of that he loses his license.
His next move: no longer treat Lyme patients, or try to avoid them.
what about natural ways of healing
i wonder if some herb mightn't purge the wound of its evil
we do rely on hyperrationalized forms of medical knowledge way too much perhaps old wives and shamans know as much or more
i recently visited a lady who does deep massage adn she did wonders for an injury a western medical perspective simply said i'd grow used to ....but this lady actually performed some healing
and what's more there will be more
the whole thing of western medicine has become the micromanagement of illness based on symptoms manage the symptoms whereas other forms tend to get a full sense of a person's health
it seems logical to me that after a physical injury some effort might well be made toward rebalancing the body
but a bone doc simply sets the bone offers some painkiller and wishes you the best with a nice bill
maybe reflexology could do something to address lyme dizzeez
medical science is at the forefront of the humanist agenda to control humanity so anyone does well to rebel
wisdom is hard won but pleasantly fought for
yadda yadda yadda
kirby i think you're standing before the burning bush you have been chosen by god to lead your people out of slavery to lyme to ticks you here hold this burning knife on your tongue it won't hurt here let me do it here i can yes you will be the prophet of the new order
but try to be peaceful about this would you
rethink the deer slaughter
maybe there's another way
go tell it on the mountain
god has a message for you
our dear beloved voice in the wilderness
in the labyrinthe
in the latrine
OMyGAWD
jh
hey i just noticed a little blue flag that blips up on the screen while i type
who knowz
we may just B phuqqed
There's a rep in Virginia named Wolf who sponsored a bill in Congress but the committee was apparently bought off by a big medical provider, or so that's the scuttlebutt, and it never got out of committee.
It's hard to keep track of this stuff. You really have to dig.
http://www.mdjunction.com/forums/lyme-disease-support-forums/lyme-disease-activism/1337044-state-lyme-bills-all-below
There might be enough anger on the basis of healthcare alone to start a third party and win a sizable vote. Most of us here have a clear preference in terms of party: either Republican or Democrat. Ed is one of the few who comes here (he comes rarely and generally leaves within a few days with a huff, as predictably as the weather turns in December) who doesn't have a preference and sees both parties as a collusive exercise in falsification of diversity.
38% of Americans are now independents as a great number are now disenchanted with the mainstream parties. Article in the weekend WSJ says it's a false dichotomy like Stones-Beatles, or Kodak-Fuji, and that once these monopolies form they settle into believing they will be around forever (the Stones have been around for fifty years and yet still sell themselves as revolutionaries!).
Revolution, like everything else, is a brand.
The PWL has to create an arresting power block of votes in order to carve out a niche from the CDC.
WSJ reports that AIDS doctors want a massive increase in funding so they can mount a breakthrough on the disease. It's very close. They say. Very close. So just give us all the CDC money and we will give you more enticing news.
Meanwhile the PWL visits emergency rooms in hopes of garnering a pill, or visits the hardware store in search of a final rope. A final rope cures most things.
Once the doctors cure AIDS they will need more money for follow-up reports, and memoirs, of just how they did it. It takes a long time for the bearers of a new disease to get everything lined up in their favor. Once they have it they will never relinquish their leading role, any more than the communist party will just "wither away." It won't happen.
How hard would it be to get the helicopter gunships up there with heatseeking missiles looking for anything with antlers?
It would be a blast.
Very difficult to get all those helicopters in motion. Once in motion it's even harder to get them to stop, since whole livelihoods would be in question. Look at Afghanistan, or Iraq.
To increase the funding at the CDC is very difficult, just as it is to decrease funding. Funds in motion tend to stay in motion.
Getting stealthcare online would be nothing compared to stopping it once it's in place.
JH, If I'm the Moses of Lyme children then I will never see them delivered into the Promised Land. But I suppose it's worth it, if I only had the patients of Dr. Kildare the deer would be safe, but as it is I'm thinking daisy cutters in suburban parks, just to be sure to get them ticks.
A ticking time bomb, tick tock, the mouse ran up the clock, hickory dickory kill the vectors that are making the children ill, drop a pre-emptive pill.
According to the Nazis, FDR was Moses...
http://www.life.com/gallery/61711/advertising-evil-pro-nazi-posters#index/9
Interesting slideshow... Should check out all the posters.
Kirby,
I doubt anyone else will notice, so this is just for your amusement. I pulled a deer tick nymph off of my calf last Thursday, and got blood. No bullseye yet, but I check daily. I have a physical coming up in a few weeks, and you can bet that I'll mention it to my physician, symptoms or no.
your physician could" give a shit"
get on the antibiotics NOW!
insist. we got morons running things !
Stu, the turnaround is generally speaking 48 hours. After that, you may develop chronic Lyme. If you have a doctor that you can talk with, tell him anything to get a round of antibiotics. I had something on my leg last night at Little League but it was just a mosquito. When I slapped it was sure full of blood, though.
The turnaround is very brief on Lyme and the doctors are trained to lie by the insurance companies which are skimping.
Tell the doctor you have a ferocious cold or anything to get the antibiotics.
Even steal them. It's a matter of life and death!
Sometimes the bites are symptom free. Did you keep the tick? You can also have the tick checked.
I'd hate to lose a commenter!
Generally the tick has to remain on the leg for at least 24 hours. If part of the tick can be kept, it's important to put it in a small plastic bottle, seal it, and bring it to a competent doctor. Only about 2% of deer ticks have Lyme. But it's very important to catch this if this one did.
Oddly we haven't got Lyme in this county because we think the elevation is so high it provides long cold winters such that the mice can't sustain themselves around here. Indians didn't live here except in the summers, passing through.
There have been eight cases in the county but all the sufferers are believed to have picked it up elsewhere.
I still check my children's legs every day.
Kirby,
Did you keep the tick? You can also have the tick checked.
Nope. In retrospect, it might have been a good idea. I'm reasonably confident that I picked it up crossing the Midway Plaisance the previous day (this is literally the site of the Midway from the Columbian Exposition, just south of the University). If so, my risks are essentially nil. It's a different story if I picked it up in Wisconsin the week before, but this seems extraordinarily unlikely, as it would require that I'd have gone a full week without noticing.
I had plenty of ticks as a kid (I can remember popping them with electric cigarette lighters from the car), so I'm attuned.
Truth is, I'd have done something if I'd have pulled off an adult, but a nymph? In Chicago?
I figure it's just God's way of making sure that I'm paying attention.
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