2007 Independent Publisher Book Award Medalist!
On the Back Cover
“Lyme disease is the most prevalent tick-borne illness in the United States today with as many as a quarter million infections occurring each year. For those who receive prompt and adequate treatment, full recovery is achievable. However, for many individuals, delayed and inadequate treatment has resulted in chronic and debilitating illness.”
— Rita L. Stanley, Ph.D.
“This book represents the patients who are seen on a daily basis by physicians, like myself, who treat Lyme disease. I have seen Lyme disease transform brilliant minds into confusion, dementia, and profound depression. I have seen athletes develop crippling pain, weakness, and confinement to wheelchairs. I urge all those physicians who are treating Lyme disease to continue to fight for your patients because the tide is turning.”Lesley Ann Fein, M.D., MPH, Medical Director of the Lyme Disease Society
“Confronting Lyme Disease intimately portrays the effects of the spread of Lyme disease in North America. American and Canadian lives are ruined while the medical authorities exercise health cost management and control.”Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, Westbank, British Columbia
“I recognized the similar experiences that most Lyme patients endure—the lack of understanding of such a virulent disease which is devastating our population, the suffering, both physical and emotional—it is all there in these real stories about real people and pets coping with the pain of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. This book describes how these patients had to be proactive in order to get healthy once again.”Dolly Curtis, Cable TV Producer and Host of Dolly Curtis Interviews, Easton, Conn.