<p>tx5athome and Apollo6 thank you both for your kind wishes. From your lips to God’s ears as we say! Apollo6 you gave me food for thought. I had always said to my D kiddingly that there should be gap years in high school, but we knew it would not have been possible. I better check with the NMSQT to find out about medical leaves (if only she were an exchange student in a more perfect world!). I know at her high school (the one we are not returning to) the kids did semesters abroad but never a full year, perhaps for that reason. How wonderful your D got to live abroad. My d is a swedish citizen (due to my soon-to-be-ex-husband), and she can live or go to school anywhere in Europe. I had already called Karolinska Institute, since they are up on many scientific breakthroughs. I don’t know if you all have heard that the European Parliament has been cell phones for children 18 and under due to their belief in the brain cancer connection. Also, they pulled laptops out of classrooms in many countries in Europe, because of the wifi scare (UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and by now, perhaps many more). UK PowerWatch has a lot of good articles. I brought it to the attention of my d’s school (since they are given laptops in 7th gr and use them in the class to take notes) as it has always been a fear of mine (having had 3 cancers), but the head of the tech dept brushed it off saying the routers were not near the classrooms (???) and were in the auditorium. There is so much we don’t know about routers, wifi, cell phones, but it comes to the point where you have to trust your gut. I do not put a cell phone near my ear, and even with kids texting, as long as the phone is on, they are still exposed to radiation per the report. It reminds me of cigarettes in the 50’s (we had a dr who would examine us as kids with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, so my mother figured if the dr was smoking, it was ok. Sadly, she died from emphysema, which is a horrific disease). </p>
<p>As for the lyme, and sorry to bore everyone, but I thought if I can save another child or parent from what we are going through, knowledge is power, then I’d post this. It is so hard for me to watch my daughter go through this health issue. I’ve gotten some feedback from several people that even with all the antibiotics, etc. they kept relapsing; however, a friend of mine’s son, who had been on the dean’s list at penn, had to take 8 months off to recover as he slowly hit rock bottom from this insidious disease. On his own, after antibiotic treatment, he bought some herbs after careful research, and used colloidal silver and a combo of others to heal himself. He attributes the herbs to the cure and getting back to 100% again. But he said that he went from dean’s list to solid D’s that year because he just couldn’t function nor absorb the materials. </p>
<p>I don’t think people appreciate the seriousness of the disease (even with my d having it twice before, I never knew that all these crazy symptoms she had were attributed to lyme - it tends to be looked at as more arthritic than neurological and people think you need that bullseye rash as well). In my d’s case, she only had knee pain with her 2nd bout with lyme, but she never had a bullseye rash in any of her cases. </p>
<p>They have also found out that a lot of people are misdiagnosed with alzheimer’s, MS, dementia and Lou Gehrig’s disease, when it is lyme that has been undiagnosed for many years. I have to say looking back, my uncle had the bullseye rash and was treated for lyme (he used to play a lot of golf), however, a few years later was diagnosed with alzheimer’s and no one ever connected the two because it was back in the early 90’s. It is only now that the research being done has made that connection. </p>
<p>I’m going to be tested next week, and my dog (who I keep inside since the deer on our property are rampant), will also be tested. I have friends whose dogs have gotten the lyme vaccine but still got lyme.</p>
<p>Anyway, enough about our problems! Brighter days ahead for all!</p>
