Showing posts with label Under Our Skin. Show all posts
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Jan 12, 2014

Lyme Highlights from 2013, Part Two: Media ~ Lyme Celebrities in Headlines

http://lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/punk-singer.html
In part one of my highlights post, I offered a few links to studies that made an impression on me this past year.  I also diverged into a relatively brief and lite-weight political rant about the lack of sound science used in policy decisions and the lack of defensible inquiry by CDC, IDSA, and uninformed physicians.  

With that out of the way, here's a bit of what I remember most from the news (mainstream media) this year that had to do with lyme (aside from the revised infection rates, which would be too much to add together here).

Media ~ People and Headlines

Early on in my diagnosis, I came across a lot of celebrity names and lists.  I can't say why that was heartening. I'm certainly not glad any of them had to go through this.  But it was the same as with Bell's palsy....it just added a bit more to the sense of solidarity and hope that I was seeking (and finding) on-line. Lyme and memory are not friends, so I can't make a list of this year's most noted lymies from memory.  But here are a few that stood out for me this year.