Pediatric Lyme Disease

Neither conventional nor alternative medicine has all the answers about Lyme Disease.
As sufferers of Lyme Disease you must stick together, share information, and move ahead as a united group, helping one another sift through the endless books, articles, and websites available.
Lyme Disease is set apart from other medical conditions because breakthroughs in Lyme Disease treatment often result from collaboration, cooperation, and research conducted by the Lyme Disease community itself, in comparison with breakthroughs in other areas of health research, which are often attained via outside research organizations such as pharmaceutical companies and universities. You can all learn from one another and in many cases, the personal experiences with helpful or harmful treatments can provide road maps for one another.
One of the best methods by which to communicate with Lyme Disease sufferers is a Lyme Disease support group. Historically, these support groups have involved actual in-person meetings. Now, because of technology, internet-based discussion groups are becoming more and more popular and accessible. Internet discussion forums provide a gathering medium in which Lyme Disease sufferers can get together to make new friends, sharing treatment information, supporting one another, and building a database of Lyme Disease information.
Although local support groups obviously foster deeper interpersonal relationships, internet support groups provide other advantages such as being accessible to everyone, no need to block off a time or day of the week, most information about Lyme Disease is being distributed on the internet, storage archives where past messages are identified and retained. Local support groups have attendance of anywhere from five to 50 people on average. Many of the larger internet groups have on average hundreds or thousands of members.
Naturally, internet discussion groups will never replace the interpersonal interaction that occur when people meet together in person. An added bonus is that the vast majority of the groups are available free of charge. There are dozens of online Lyme Disease support groups, three of the most useful and informative are the Lyme and Rife group, Lyme Community Forums and LymeNet.
There is a saying in my business, "look, observed, and report" which holds true for Lyme Disease. Look, know your surroundings. Observe, check your body for ticks when you come inside, Report, go to your doctor immediately.
As we approach the end of one Kiwanis year and begin another I would like to thank Governor Candace for her support of the Lyme Disease Foundation, Gov.-Elect Hank for his never ending support, and to all Kiwanis members of conscience, Circle K, Key Club and Builders Club for their support and continued support of the Pediatric Lyme Disease Foundation mission, "NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO SUFFER WITH THIS DREADED DISEASE". Thank you all for your overwhelming support.
Please continue to purchase the Brittany Fellowship Award, First Level Emerald. Second Level Emerald, and the Joseph Michael Wuest Fellowship Award, as these awards are the only way we have to raise funds to pay the grants that we give out to Lyme suffers.
In the year 2020 it will be 20 years since I founded the Pediatric Lyme Disease Foundation. To celebrate our 20 years of service to children with this disease on March 29, 2020 we will be having a gala celebration. So mark it on your calendars and please try attend.

Column Posted on Web Site October 25, 2018