Focus – Opinions and Features

By Rhisa Parera I was born in Brooklyn in 1990, to a Puerto Rican mom and an Irish and Spanish dad. I was raised in Staten Island. In 2007, my senior year of high school, I started getting GI issues that lasted for about a year. In 2009, after a few weeks in Puerto Rico, I came... Read More »

By Jessica Egan Our 11-year-old daughter Lucy had three tick-borne diseases starting in 2018: Lyme disease, babesiosis, and mycoplasma pneumonia. We don’t know when or where she was bitten by the tick, but we have an educated guess. What we know for sure is that it took months to... Read More »

August is Gastroparesis Awareness Month. The disorder affects stomach muscles, making it difficult for the body to process food. There can be many causes for gastroparesis. It is often associated with Lyme disease and related infections. Guest blogger Savannah Marcum writes about... Read More »

By Gabriela Wijegunawardena Over the past seven years I’ve seen: five primary care doctors, two neurologists, five OB-GYNs, one gastroenterologist, two urologists, one allergist, five dermatologists, five ER doctors, three functional medicine doctors, one ophthalmologist,... Read More »

Alexandra Moresco delivered the following public comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 8. I’m Ali Moresco, a 27 year old tick-borne illness patient and advocate, having created readily available tick-borne disease resources and raising $400,000 over the... Read More »

Beth Carrison delivered the following remarks to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 8. Over the past several months, increased attention is being paid to minority health disparities. As written in the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group’s 2018 Report to Congress, cases... Read More »

Wendy Adams gave the following statement via telephone, during the July 8 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Wendy Adams of Bay Area Lyme Foundation, and I was a member of the inaugural Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, and most recently a member of the... Read More »

Dr. Elizabeth Maloney delivered the following remarks to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 8. Good morning. I am speaking with the support of ILADS’ board of directors. I co-authored ILADS 2014 guidelines. If you haven’t read our guidelines, please do. I’m here to... Read More »

By Rachel Leland As someone who has done more than my share of “sheltering in place” over the years, I’ve long been a fan of ordering things from Amazon. I buy everything from groceries to clothing to flashlight batteries. Heck, I even bought the dress I got married in from... Read More »