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wanderluste: Hey everyone! I usually don’t like these kinds of posts, but please, stop and look at my cute dad.  He is 39, and he is dying from Lyme Disease because we live in Utah. Hundreds, if not thousands of Utah patients are being turned away from Lyme Disease Treatment because of antiquated blood test procedures and pressure from the Utah Medical Association (http://www.utahmed.org) and the insurance companies (Intermountain Health Care - http://intermountainhealthcare.org). We believe they are in collusion in not treating Lyme Disease because of the cost to treat patients. All it takes is a ‘live blood test’ to find the bacterial infection known as Spirochetes that course through the blood and soft tissue of Lyme’s sufferers. Lyme Disease has cost him 4 years of his life with countless visits to doctors, specialists, hospital stays and surgical procedures to treat his symptoms. Lyme’s is alive and doing well in Utah, and in him! So far it’s attacked his digestive tract (including removal of his appendix and gall bladder, and chronic irritable bowel disease), caused severe joint pain, caused seizures so severe that he broke his back and dislocated both shoulders, and caused neurological problems including stroke-like paralysis, migraines, major depression, and panic attacks. HE CONTRACTED IT IN UTAH!  Doctors are taught and trained to believe that it doesn’t exist in Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. As if an infectious disease knows (and respects) state boundaries! My dad has to drive 200 miles once a week to get the treatment he needs TO LIVE.  Lyme Disease is known as ‘The Great Imitator”. This is just his story, others have had it so long it has developed into some of the following: Alzheimers’ Disease, Anorexia, Arthritis, Ataxia, Autism, Many Autoimmune disorders, Bipolar, Brain Fog, Vision Loss, Cardiomyopathy, Tinnitus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Cognitive Dysfunction, Continual infections like MRSA, Demyelinating Disorders, Encephalitis, Facial Paralysis, Fibromyalgia, Hair Loss, Headache including Migraine, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Severe Muscle Pain, Panic Disorders, Rueumatoid Arthritis, Sleeping Disorders, Thyroid Disease, Stress Intolerance, Tremor, and more. My dad has set up a petition, and I beg you to take 30 seconds out of your day to open this tab and sign it! It could help THOUSANDS of Lymes Disease sufferers.  If you have scrolled past this entire post, PLEASE, PLEASE, stop and look at this part. Just click on this link  and sign your name! YOU COULD SAVE LIVES JUST BY ENTERING YOUR NAME. Please help us change the Lyme Disease problem! Thank You!
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  2. saralouisiebird said: Lauren…. I can’t even… I’m so sorry. )= I love you..
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