Focus – Opinions and Features

By Carolyn Degnan With schools back in session, your child with Lyme disease may need some extra accommodation to get through the school day/week. That is where an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) can come into play. An IEP is a legal document developed for US public school... Read More »

By Fred Diamond Having a child suffer with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases can be devastating. Having a child pass away will shift your life in ways you could never imagine. In her raw and open book, “My Promise to Alex,” Jody Hudson documented the challenges she and her... Read More »

By Bishop Christopher Herbert PhD Visiting Professor, University of Surrey, UK The National Health Service recently declared it is entering a new era. It involves technology in which patients can stay at home and be monitored remotely. It is interesting news, but I enter a... Read More »

By Mark Barrett Three slowly moving poppy seed sized dots crawled up my left forearm. Turning to my girlfriend, I pointed to the three dots, briefly explained that these were ticks that possibly carried Lyme disease, and casually informed her that she should be mindful of them.... Read More »

By Dan Flanagan I’ve been a violinist for 40 years and I have made a living from it since completing school 20 years ago. I’ve also been afflicted with chronic neurological Lyme disease and co-infections for 33 years, and boy oh boy, does it get in the way. I started learning the... Read More »

By Erin Leopold I am listening, but it’s as if I am under water and everything they are saying is garbled and unclear. All I can think is, how do I have Lyme disease when I am sure I was tested several different times? Is this what I suffered with since I first got sick at age... Read More »

By Fred Diamond When I decided to learn more about how persistent Lyme disease affected a family member I loved, I went onto Facebook and typed in “Lyme disease.” I was shocked to see hundreds of groups appear, some with tens of thousands of members. I devoted a chapter in my... Read More »

By Ryan Prior More than three years out from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific authorities continue to monitor long COVID, the syndrome comprising the disabling aftereffects of SARS-CoV-2 that can last for months and years after one’s initial infection. If public... Read More »

By Fred Diamond When I first began educating myself about what family members need to know about persistent Lyme, one of the books that had an impact on me was Gregg Kirk’s “The Gratitude Curve: Using the Lessons of Chronic Illness to Reach Personal Empowerment.” In my boo... Read More »