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LOUISIANA
Heather Rabalais - My sister lives in Boyce, Louisiana. She's
been diagnosed with Lyme disease and has been suffering for a few
years now. She is recently divorced and her now ex-husband canceled
her from his health insurance. Consequently, she is no longer able
to receive or afford the medical treatment she so desperately needs.
She is physically unable to work. She is trying to get through the
red tape in Louisiana in order to obtain medicaid. As we all know,
it takes a long time to obtain it. In the meantime, she is
suffering. Furthermore, once she does get medicaid, doctors in her
area will not accept it.
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Edwina Schwegmann - In
Louisiana we have forests, deer, hunters. I know of others here that
have been diagnosed with Lyme some choosing elsewhere for treatment.
I don't know which doctors but some are looking to see if their
patients have Lyme or M.S., and that's here; others don't seem to
know about it. I went to a seminar by two women doctors-family
practice who treat a lot of CFIDS patients and Fibro patients. They
said if you have elevated fevers and sedimentation rates you need to
look at other things besides fibro/CFIDS. I went back told my
Infectious Disease Dr. this and he, who does a lot of testing-did
another Lyme test on me as well as others. He was shocked and
horrified it was positive he said IVs for 2 weeks. I'd had orals a
lot from him over the 15 years I've been sick because he secretly
wondered if I had Lyme. I did improve some too under his care after
lots of antibiotics. I can drive some only awhile though, walk some
in stores never, never a mall too big, still get fatigued. I'm not
bed bound and can walk but painfully lots of burning in feet, elbow,
spine at times and stiffness. My symptoms: sudden onset severe
joint/muscle pains, dizziness, swelling at base of neck, still
swells sometimes, weight gain, difficulty walking on bad days stay
in sometimes hard to walk down hall, night sweats severe enough to
change gowns, mental confusion, vision off, hearing-buzzing in
ears/ringing so loud, complete exhaustion, severe pain, weakness
profound one towel at time I could put in washer, it took me 2
months to be able to turn over in bed so stiff, bladder infections
I'd never had before severe blood coming out of me, swelling of
lymph nodes in right neck between shoulder, black spots that appear
in cheeks when I "crash", someone said possible morgellons
www.morgellons.com
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