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Hey everyone...it's Tom. What an explosion of new members out here lately! My gosh I feel for all of you and want you to know you are no where near alone in this! Keep throwing your thoughts out here and you will get info that will help you, I promise. Okay, got a few things for you.... My wife (yes, I've mentioned several times she is an RN and has really educated herself on Lyme and co-infections...lol) recently bought Dr. Kenneth Singleton's book, The Lyme Disease Solution. Dr. Singleton is here in the Baltimore area and has been treating Lyme patients for many years. He himself was infected with Lyme and developed many of his treatments to get his own situation under control. He is a smart and dedicated doctor who really cares. For those that have already read a lot about Lyme, most of the book is pretty much review material. However, I have garnered some nuggets of information that have been thought provoking. His writing goes from explaining to the layman, to explaining in a way that only a medical professional would understand, but in the end he gets his point across. For those of you who are geared more to the natural treatment of Lyme, Dr. Singleton is a big believer, but he does use medications as well. His thoughts seem to mirror mine; that the meds are needed to get things going, but you can work towards taking care of yourself by rebuilding your immune system and body. If you are looking for a book to add to your Lyme library, I don't think you'd be wasting your money on Doc Singleton's. It's worth it. You can find information at www.lymedoctor.com. I just reserved tickets for my wife and I to see Under Our Skin, the long awaited documentary on Lyme Disease. It is a selection at the Silverdocs Film Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, June 16-23, 2008. We will be seeing the movie at a screening on June 17th. I will post information here, after I have seen it. You can go to www.underourskin.com to get on the mailing list for future screenings. There are more and more all the time. I have spoken with the director of the film and they are still negotiating theatrical film rights, but the movie may just go straight to DVD in the end. They are making a "play-only" version available in June, with a full blown DVD at a later date. If anyone would like more information, just send me a PM. I was reading recently about the Lyme Disease Association and ILADS running their conferences concurrently in San Francisco this October, and decided to check out the IDSA annual conference. It is set for late October in Washington, DC, so it's close to home for me. Of course, I can't attend, but I am still trying to weasel a way to get in. Why? Well, I have read their tentative symposia schedule on their web site, curious to see if there was going to be a discussion on Lyme disease...and no, not yet. I say not yet because there was a section near the end that said they were developing 10 additional symposiums, one being Tick Borne Diseases. I will check back further through the summer to see how that develops. I'm sure they are waiting to see how things progress with their lawsuit settlement and when the investigations by the review panel start. It should be interesting, so I'll keep everyone informed. Sorry to be so long-winded, but I had a lot of things I wanted to share, and that is what this site is all about. Take care and be well. Tom I am not a doctor, and nothing I say here should be taken as medical advice of any kind. |
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