Lyme Disease Quotes

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers

“It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that women suffer the most from Lyme. They tend to advance into chronic and late-stage forms of the illness most because often it's checked for last, as doctors often treat them as psychiatric cases first. The nebulous symptoms plus the fracturing of articulacy and cognitive fog can cause any Lyme patient to simply appear mentally ill and mentally ill only. This is why we hear that young women—again, anecdotally—are dying of Lyme the fastest. This is also why we hear that chronic illness is a women's burden. Women simply aren't allowed to be physically sick until they are mentally sick, too, and then it is by some miracle or accident that the two can be separated for proper diagnosis. In the end, every Lyme patient has some psychiatric diagnosis, too, if anything because of the hell it takes getting to a diagnosis.”
― Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

“Dr. Cameron is hoping to release a new digital and audio book by the end of December 2022. This book summarizes Dr. Cameron’s understanding of Lyme disease based on his first 600 Lyme disease science blogs and 35+ years of treating Lyme disease patients. The book includes over 200 published Lyme disease cases. There is also space at the end of this book to share your comments and engage with Dr. Cameron”
― Dr. Daniel Cameron, An Expert's Guide to Navigating Lyme disease

“On this journey with our disease we may experience all of the emotions I listed and more, including feeling hopeless about the present and about the future, but our God f hope quietly and tenderly reminds us to hope even when everything feels hopeless.”
― Rebecca VanDeMark, Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey

“Our greatest hope does not rest in the death of suffering. Neither does our help lie in us having a full and perfect life, with no pain, no brokenness, and no Lyme disease. Instead our hope lies in God and we hope in the fact that this is our temporary home and our forever home with Him in Heaven is perfect. This hope- this beautiful and living hope (I Peter 1:3-4) is for the future but also gives us hope for our present days.”
― Rebecca VanDeMark, Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey

“Lyme is a word. Not a sentence.”
― Rebecca VanDeMark, Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey

“Remember choosing a treatment option should be a shared decision between physicians and their patients; also there should be regular follow-up visits to re-assess a patient’s response to treatment.”
― Cameron, An Expert's Guide to Navigating Lyme disease

“i wish i could go back
and tell my younger self to smile with her teeth
it wasn't your fault
the tick chose you; the doctor chose the drugs
and even if it were, you have every right
to bare your yellowed fangs and tell the world to move.”
― M.J. Anthony, Tending Clay, Unearthing Stars: Poems