Please click on the links below
to read the stories of people
who
have Lyme disease and co-infections:
A Note From Tina Garcia: My husband and I met Pat Pepper while we lived in Sedona, Arizona in 2001. We met Ms. Pepper after she was in a quadriplegic state from delayed diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. When I first diagnosed myself with Lyme disease in 2002, I thought back several times to our meeting with Pat Pepper. Because I could barely walk, I felt that I was approaching such a condition. After I was clinically diagnosed by a physician, I found Ms. Pepper's audio tape online at Lyme Disease Audio Network. Her story brought everything close to heart and brought tears to my eyes.
Ms. Pepper refers to Dr. Dattwyler in her audio story as having told her she DID NOT have Lyme disease. Cultures subsequently proved Ms. Pepper's quadriplegic condition was from infection from Lyme disease and Babesiosis. Dr. Raymond Dattwyler is one of the authors of BOTH the 2000 and 2006 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Treatment Guidelines for Lyme disease, which are currently under investigation by the Connecticut Attorney General for possible antitrust violations. Dr. Dattwyler has the audacity to continue to make authoritative medical statements publicly that most people who think they have Lyme disease actually have some other condition. Dr. Dattwyler diagnosed Pat Pepper with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease).
In addition, Dr. Raymond Dattwyler, who now states that 10-28 days of oral antibiotics cures all cases of acute Lyme disease and refers to Chronic Lyme Disease as a vague condition called "Post Lyme Syndrome," published research in 1988 in which he stated,
"We studied 17 patients who had presented with acute Lyme disease and received prompt treatment with oral antibiotics, but in whom chronic Lyme disease subsequently developed."
Dattwyler, RJ, et al., Seronegative Lyme disease. Dissociation of specific T-and B-lymphocyte responses to Borrelia burgdorferi. New England Journal of Medicine, 1988, 319(22):1441-6.
Most tragically, Pat Pepper passed away.
You may draw your own conclusions
about Dr. Raymond Dattwyler.
Click on the
link above to hear
Pat Pepper tell her story in her own words.
Cheryll Nelson's Story
Clarence and Michelle Baptisto's Story
Kathleen
Liporace
Linnea
Liporace
Letter from Tina's Mother
My
Golden Years
Nawanna Rodgers-Gazin
Sandy
Goettel's Letter
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The Lyme Disease Quilt Page is a compilation of stories about Lyme disease patients. It was on this webpage that I read about so many of the symptoms that I was experiencing, too. These stories led me in the right direction to get the help I needed to combat the infection in my body. I cherish and appreciate this webpage and the people whose stories are posted there, for without them, I may not have found the help I needed. Thank you. Tina J. Garcia
Lyme Disease Quilt Page
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