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The Womans Day -lehdessä esitettiin 10.6.2009 useiden ihmisten borrelioosikertomuksia, esim. 55-vuotiaan lääkärin kertomus. Hän ehti toimia lääkärinä 25 v. Nyt hän on sairastanut kroonista borrelioosia 5 v. ja on työkyvytön. Myös hänen tyttärensä ja miehensä sairastavat borrelioosia.
"Minulla on ollut oireita jo vuodesta 1995. En tiedä milloin sain tartunnan mutta minulla on aina ollut lemmikkieläimiä ja olen asunut rannikolla.
Vuosien ajan ajattelin oireideni johtuvan stressistä, vaihdevuosien läheisyydestä tms. Lääkärikollegani eivät huomanneet edes selkeitä oireitani. Heidän mielestään oireideni syynä oli masennus jne.
Oireeni etenivät salakavalasti joten en huomannut olleeni todella sairas jo 7 vuoden ajan. Lääkärini kertoi v. 2004 että tautini oli todennäköisesti parantumaton eikä ollut kovin innostunut aloittamaan hoitoani koska hän oli joutunut tutkintaan antamiensa borrelioosihoitojen vuoksi. Monet muutkin pitkiä hoitoja antaneet lääkärit ovat kokeneet saman kohtalon.
19-vuotias tyttäreni sai tartunnan 10-vuotiaana. Hän sai silloin antibioottihoidon ja voi hyvin 2 v. Sen jälkeen oireet palasivat takaisin. En anna koskaan anteeksi itselleni että en tunnistanut tyttäreni uusiutuneiden oireiden syytä tuohon aikaan. En pysty antamaan anteeksi myöskään lääkärikollegoilleni. Maassamme on tuhansittain kroonista borrelioosia sairastavaa, mutta he eivät saa hoitoa muutamien ns. "asiantuntijoiden", kuten lääkäri Alan Steeren, vuoksi.
Olemme olleet tyttäreni kanssa yli kahden vuoden ajan lähes kokonaan sidottuina kotiin. Vakuutusyhtiö vaatii meille hoitoja antavalta lääkäriltä 100 miljoonaa korvauksia hoidoista jotka poikkeavat yleisestä käytännöstä (lyhyt antibioottihoito). Lääkärini on yksi hienoimmista lääkäreistä joita olen tavannut 25-vuotisen lääkärinurani aikana. Hän tietää kuinka sairaita hänen potilaansa ovat ja sen kuinka vähän hoitomahdollisuuksia kroonista borrelioosia sairastavilla on. Konkurssistaan huolimatta hän jatkaa kuitenkin taistelua potilaidensa hoitojen saannin puolesta.
Voitte kuvitella minkälaista elämämme on, kun sekä minulla että tyttärelläni on infektio aivoissa ja "asiantuntijat" sanovat että infektio on helposti hoidettavissa kuukauden antibioottihoidolla - siitäkin huolimatta että oireet eivät parane. Olemme molemmat juuri saaneet kahden vuoden suonensisäisen antibioottihoidon. Ennen hoidon aloittamista olin lähellä kuolemaa suolistotulehduksen vuoksi. Kuinka moni lääkäreistä edes tietää että borreliabakteeri aiheuttaa suolistosairauksia?
Myös miehelläni on borrelioosi. Hänellä on sydänoireita. Hän hoitaa itseään runsaalla liikunnalla. Lääkärini kertoi tavanneensa muitakin borrelioosia sairastavia jotka ovat pysyneet kunnossa olemalla erittäin aktiivisia. Tämä ei kuitenkaan toimi suurimman osan kohdalla sillä monilla on vaikeuksia päästä ylös edes sohvalta.
Minusta näyttää siltä että lukuisat ihmiset ovat saaneet borreliatartunnan mutta he ovat oireettomia. Kukaan ei tiedä sairastuvatko he jonakin päivänä. Jotkut lääkärit hoitavat myös oireettomia potilaita mutta mielestäni se ei ole oikein sillä tällä hetkellä ei ole olemassa testiä jolla voitaisiin osoittaa onko hoito auttanut vai ei. Omalla kohdallani hoidon aloittaminen oli aikoinaan välttämätöntä mutta vointini oli muuten ennen hoitoja parempi. Taudin hoito näyttää olevan vaikeaa vuoden sairastamisen jälkeen. Useiden ihmisten kohdalla tehdään virheellisiä diagnooseja pitkään. Tällaisissa tapauksissa sairastuneet eivät todennäköisesti enää parane mutta heidän tilaansa voidaan kuitenkin hoitaa. Useissa tapauksissa he eivät kuitenkaan saa hoitoa."
Koko kertomus: http://dailywd.womansday.com/blog/2009/ ... versy.html
June 10, 2009
Daily Dose: Lyme Controversy
Most people who get Lyme disease (transmitted by ticks) take a course of antibiotics and move on with their lives. But others seem to experience ?chronic? Lyme disease, which can last their whole lives. These people report problems ranging from dizziness and memory loss to severe fatigue, nerve damage and paranoia. The question: Is chronic Lyme disease real?
For now, it seems to depend on whom you ask. Most mainstream medical organizations say that there isn?t enough evidence to support it, and that sufferers are either imagining their symptoms or developing other problems that are unrelated to Lyme. But there are some doctors and plenty of patients who believe this condition is very real and very serious.
A new documentary, Under Your Skin, addresses this controversy and explains why chronic Lyme disease just might be the next epidemic. It?s being released at the IFC Center in New York City on June 19th, and afterwards will be screened at different venues around the country. To learn more, go to www.underourskin.com or check out the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsnMQHIJZk
Do you have Lyme disease? Do you believe that the disease can exist in a chronic, persistent form?
?Barbara Brody, Health Editor
Hear the Woman?s Day health editors live every Wednesday at 12pm EST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radioWD
Posted by WomansDay.com Editors on June 10, 2009 at 01:00 PM in Daily Dose | Permalink
How often do you ask a question and receive more than 50 responses that all say the same thing? These letters describe the disease well. Each of these people probably have symptoms that don't overlap, but I found it interesting that the bare bones of the presentation of late Lyme Disease is easily recognized in their responses.
I am a 55 year old physician disabled by chronic Lyme Disease. I was an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford Medical School and Assistant Director of the Emergency Department at the County Hospital in San Jose, CA. I crashed through the glass ceiling. I have 16 years of Emergency Medicine experience, over 20 years of Quality Assurance service at 3 different hospitals, 8 years of administrative responsibility along with my clinical shifts and 8 years of private practice.
I have been symptomatic since '95 and don't know when I was infected, but I have always had many pets, including many exotics, and have lived in endemic areas on both coasts. I dismissed my symptoms for years as perimenopause, stress, whatever I could convince myself of. My doctors dismissed even objective signs of illness as depression or PTSD. The illness progressed so insidiously that it wasn't obvious to me that I was truly sick until at least 7 years after my first symptoms. The Lyme specialist who diagnosed me in '04 told me I was likely incurable and wasn't enthusiastic about treating me (he was under investigation by his medical board, an experience many of the doctors who take care of this group of patients have shared with him).
My 19 year old daughter had acute Lyme Disease when she was 10, was treated and did well for 2 years, then began what I now would have recognized as the insidious progression of chronic tick-borne illness, but at that time, I didn't know. I don't think I will ever forgive myself. I also don't know if I can ever forgive my so-called colleagues for this. There is no excuse for this "controversy". There are many thousands of chronically ill people in this country who are being neglected because of a handful of "experts" who are either very stupid or very evil. My understanding (hearsay, but good hearsay) is that Dr. Alan Steere requires body guards (the rheumatologist who named it Lyme Disease when he recognized a cluster of cases in Lyme CT in the late '70's but didn't recognize that the disease had been described a century or so before in Europe).
My daughter and I have been nearly housebound, together, for over 2 years. We travel to South Carolina when we are physically able to see an Infectious Disease specialist who treated HIV for 20 years and now Lyme Borrelia Complex, as he calls it, for a decade. He has been harassed by a medical board, sued for $100,000,000 by Blue Cross for overcharging them for non-standard care and been forced into bankruptcy. Yet he continues to fight. He knows how sick his patients are and how limited are our options. He is one of the finest doctors I have met during my 25 years of medical practice or my 5 years as a patient. Yet a weaker man would have quit long ago.
Can you imagine having an infection in your brain and having a child who has an infection in her brain and being told by the experts that it is a trivial infection that need only be treated for a month, even if it isn't better? My daughter and I have just completed 2 years of an IV protocol that shows clinical promise, but the research isn't being done. I was almost dead when I started (had just lost a foot of small bowel to "enteritis" and a bowel obstruction, after a summer in the hospital being cared for by doctors who wouldn't even consider that I might have had a chronic infection affecting the picture. I was too sick to help myself and they almost lost me. Long story, but a good surgeon finally saw me, transfused me and operated on me that day. I will always wonder if some antibiotics would have prevented that surgery, not to mention that I probably do have autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease, triggered by the underlying infection. What percentage of family doc's in this country even know that Lyme Disease can cause GI problems.
I don't really understand the politics, but I do personally consider the northeast uninhabitable. I am a New Yorker, spent summers in the Hamptons, lived in Cambridge to attend Radcliffe in the early '70's, practiced Emergency Medicine in CA from '81-'96 and was living in the Berkshires from '96-'04, so I've had lots of tick exposure in my life.
My husband also has chronic Lyme involving his heart, but has managed to remain fairly stable; he is an athlete and continues to participate in extreme exercise. Our ID doc says he has seen a few other patients who seemed to be able to control their disease by being extremely active, but this is not an option for most of us. Many times getting off the sofa seems like a huge challenge.
I was nursing my youngest son when I had my first symptoms. He is now 14 years old and clinically well, though he has suspicious serology and known tick bites. Lymie kids usually have behavioral and academic issues, but he has a 4.2 GPA in the 9th grade, after skipping 6th grade, and this year, he was awarded the "Bright Light" award for being the student in the school who most embodies "compassion and integrity". I don't think he should be treated, nor did the only Lyme pediatrician in the country, but I pray every day that he will stay healthy. He had bronchitis a couple of years ago, took Zithromax and did not herx. Nobody knows if asymptomatic people who have been infected will eventually get sick or not. There seem to be certain HLA types that can predict a poor prognosis, so it seems likely that there are types that may assist people in staying healthy after an exposure. However, I have heard of several people who describe "one bite too many" rather than one bite, so I don't think my son will follow me to Harvard, or any other school in the northeast.
We now live in Santa Fe, NM. We have 4 dogs and have seen only one dog tick in 4 years. In MA, we saw ticks every day; if you walked down our very long driveway, you had to pick the ticks off your pants when you got home. It worsened noticeably during the 8 years we lived there. Has anyone told you that the most dangerous ticks are nymph deer ticks? They are the size of a poppy seed or the period at the end of this sentence. My guess is that many people are infected and not sick; my son may be one of them. We don't know if they will get sick eventually or not.
There are Lyme doc's who treat asymptomatic people that they think are infected, but this does not seem right to me. For one thing, there is no way to know if your treatment has been effective. Also, I became much sicker when I went after it; I had no choice, because I was slipping fast at that point, but things were definitely better for me before I tried to treat it. I don't think this is a common history, but still, until we know more, if I were asymptomatic, I would leave well enough alone, unless perhaps if I knew somehow that the seroconversion had occurred fairly recently. The disease seems to be harder to treat after a year. As you probably noticed from the other responses here that many people are misdiagnosed for much longer than a year. These people are most likely not curable, but they are treatable and they are being denied treatment.
I could go on and on, but I'm sure you don't want me to. I hope what I've written is coherent. It is late, I am too tired to reread or rewrite it and I am feeling pretty Lymie, so it may not make as much sense tomorrow as it seems to now.
So I agree with the others. The answer to your question is yes. It is a travesty that time is being wasted arguing a question that has already been answered, while thousands of very sick people are marginalized. The only Infectious Disease specialist in this town won't see a patient who says they have chronic Lyme. He says he doesn't know how to treat it and it hasn't gone well for him in the past. He can get away with it because there aren't very many Lyme patients here. But would he not try to help a patient with an unknown infection that he couldn't seem to treat successfully? Just because a doctor can't cure a patient doesn't mean he can't help. I wonder if there is any other infectious disease that he refuses to even see.
Good luck with your article. Feel good about what you are doing. Any information you disseminate about how horrible the chronic form of this disease can be is a good deed. By making people aware, you may save lives.
Posted by: Jamie DJ | June 12, 2009 at 04:39 AM
This is such an important topic to bring to the attention of the general public and medical community. If more people understand how common Lyme actually is and how devistating it can be, maybe we can start to find treatments, cures and perhaps prevention of it in the first place. Any way to get the information out via articles, blogs, features on radio programs, screenings of "Under Our Skin" etc. is a step in the right direction.
Posted by: Nancy B | June 11, 2009 at 07:51 PM
I was diagnosed with late-stage lyme early last October. The diagnosis came after 10 years of crippling migraines, coupled with a myriad of neurological, psychological and physical symptoms. Dizziness, confusion, muscle pain, fatigue...name a symptom, I was there. By the time I got to a neurologist I had been icing my hands feet and thighs for phantom burns I could feel but which had no known cause. Apparently this is the joy of neuralgia. What really prompted the appointment, however, was a near swoon while walking across my kitchen with a handful of knives.
By the time I was finally diagnosed I was so glad to put a name to what had been called everything from sleep deprivation to depression to boredom that fear and anger took a few days to sink in. The reaction to my daughter's diagnosis of congenital lyme just before her ninth birthday this February was more immediate; sobbing out my anger and guilt, screaming at the steering wheel in mid-afternoon traffic.
This is real. There is no doubt. The only reason for anyone to deny the existence of chronic lyme disease is financial interest. As long as insurance companies can get by paying minimal amounts for insufficient treatment they will. How long ago were MS and Fibro Myalgia viewed in this same light? It wasn't until enough people stood up and demanded attention that pharmaceutical companies developed magic bullet pills to treat these diseases that they were even considered credible diagnoses. How long will it be for us? How many of us have to stand in the street shouting ourselves hoarse before someone hears?
Posted by: Ashley | June 11, 2009 at 07:50 PM
My 15 yr old daughter had the bullseye rash. The Dr. said we don't get lyme here, but I demanded Doxy. Her grades started to slide. At 18, a terrible rash, tested positive for Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever. She spent the whole summer sleeping - with a fever, despite the 3 wks. of antibiotics. We couldn't get any Dr to prescribe more drugs, except they wanted to give her steroids. Then it went into remission (we thought she was cured) and she went away to college. But not for long. She was diagnosed with hallucinations, bi-polar, paranoia, you get the picture. We finally got her to Lyme Literate Dr. that properly diagnosed her with Lyme and all the co-infections - after seeing 25 doctors! But the Dr. was being shutdown for treating patients for more than 3 weeks of medication. We were lost. Eventually she went into Granmal Seizures. We almost lost her. When the Dr's found out at the hospital they said, "Not a Dr. in this hospital will treat your daughter for Lyme in fear of losing their license". We dropped everything and moved with just the shirts on our backs to a more enlightened state. Both my wife and I care for her 24/7 for the past 2 yrs. Having spent our life savings we are now selling the home we left behind to continue her treatments. None of the treatments have ever been covered by insurance. Its like living in Quantanimo. God help us all.
Posted by: Mike | June 11, 2009 at 07:34 PM
Regarding does it exist... there is plenty of evidence going back 30 years+ and in European scientific literature. See http://www.lymedisease.org/news/lymepolicywonk/82.html and click on link to Volkman's letter to the IDSA panel review team.
And our personal experience and many others provide more evidence. Our whole family got sick with lyme after moving to the Philly suburbs, lyme that went undiagnosed too long and into the chronic stages. I started a support and activist group b/c of what we experienced and the impact on our kids (we're 90% recovered and functional as a result of long-term treatment)and the families that came out of the woodwork in response to an education session we held at our school. From one county in Southeastern PA, I could provide you with a roster of well over 100 documented, assembled just in the last 6 months, "chronic" lyme cases, many of them in kids. There is no question it exists -- the question is - how is this epidemic being managed by our public health authorities? Poorly - the dithering over an already answered question (e.g. does it exist), has prevented us from getting a jump on this to prevent more cases, and to figure out better treatments and real cures. Please tell some of the stories of the kids affected by Lyme AND how they DID in fact get better once properly diagnosed and treated. People and families and communities should be outraged at how this disease is being marginalized and under-diagnosed/treated. There is no question it exists -- follow the science. Thank you for calling attention to this issue!
Posted by: Julia from SEPA | June 11, 2009 at 06:36 PM
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news- ... 68994.html
Posted by: tara murtha | June 11, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Please if you can do more than a radio show. Please see if you can do an article in your magazine as well. You would be helping out a tremendous amount of people by doing so.
Thank you!
Posted by: RIckey Wagner | June 11, 2009 at 05:30 PM
I have had chronic Lyme for years. The health insurers have their lobbyists paying to cover up how serious the illness is and how many other common diseases it may be causing. The test is entirely unreliable in almost every standard lab. If you contact the California Lyme Disease Assoc. or the Lyme Disease Assoc.in New Jersey you'll get the truth, and if you publicize it you'll be doing your readers and everyone they talk a tremendous service.
Posted by: Bob Morgen | June 11, 2009 at 04:25 PM
I have suffered for 15 years with this disease, but no diagnosis till last year. Bizarre neurological symptoms, painful arthritis, blurry vision, crushing fatigue, insomnia, cogniive problems, heart arrhythmia, near-syncope, the list goes on and on. When my fingers started locking into a clenched position, causing me to have to carefully pry them open, I knew something was very wrong. About 20 doctors over the years all missed the diagnosis. Now I have disseminated disease - it is in all my organs. I have been on multiple antibiotics for a year, and altho some symptoms have disappeared, I am still very sick. Chronic Lyme exists, it is pandemic, and the lid is about to blow off this Lyme thing very soon. The actions of IDSA are CRIMINAL.
Posted by: paulieinct | June 11, 2009 at 02:59 PM
I've had Lyme for several years and realized the conventional route was not cutting it. I found this athlete's site http://www.beatlymedisease.com and apparently it took her several years to get over Lyme but did so successfully.
Posted by: Jenny Taylors | June 11, 2009 at 02:40 PM
Chronic lyme is very real. I live it every day. I was sick for years, bouncing around from Dr to Dr having every test done under the sun. Finally, in 2007, close to death, I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which is actually Lyme disease-Read the book "Cure Unknown" by Pam Weintraub)
Tests from Igenex Labs in Ca came back CDC positive for lyme. I am also clinically diagnosed with two co-infections. My husband contracted these infections from me and my newborn son may also be sick.
We spend several hundred dollars a month on Dr visits and treatment and that is with excellent insurance. If not for that, we would likely die from lack of treatment.
Lyme is a similar bacteria as syphillis and no one is talking about the similarities. Syphillis can become chronic as well it is sexually transmitted. The same holds true for lyme.
We need help. We need a cure. We need insurance and doctors to treat us and pay for treatment. Where is the compassion?
I alone know 16 people that may have lyme. That was before I knew anyone from the lyme-world. Sad. This disease is VERY widespread. The truth will come out and it will be an unfathomable disgrace to humanity.
Posted by: J Hurd | June 11, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Thanks so much for all of your comments and stories. Since there is so much interest in this topic, we're thinking of devoting one of our Radio WD programs to it, perhaps in the next few weeks. I'll be sure to let you know the air date. In the meantime, check out past shows by going to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/HealthyYou
Posted by: Barbara Brody | June 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM
YES CHRONIC LYME IS REAL!! Thank you for expressing interest in this story and bringing attention to chronic lyme. My story is long and tedious and continous to be a daily struggle every day just to survive, getting proper treatment is another horrible ordeal. What i've learned from this ORDEAL is the horrors of the American Medical Society. How many doctors sent me away with sooo many little diagnosis, or with "it's just in your head". I saw endless amount of specialitst in a 12 month period and they all amazingly found something wrong with me in thier own field....none could see the bigger picture. Have we micromanaged medicine that much??? My condition meanwhile detiorted to the point where i can no longer leave the house without assistance because i may fall or worse yet, get lost. Now i have a diagnoses because of a spinal tap and I still can't get treatment. Lyme is an infectious disease. We treat TB and HIV with long term medicine, why would we treat Lyme with only 2 to 4 weeks of antibiotics and expect it to be done with - how does that make any sense??????
And the testing for Lyme? I live on Long Island, NY. Stony Brook University researchers last summer made a big announcement that they "discovered" TWO new strains of Lyme. They even admitted that if they just "found" them that NO test out there can be looking for them. HELLO????? It's sort of like the flu shot, no? The test is only looking for some strains. If you are "lucky" enough to have that one, then you may come back positive. If the spirochetes were "nice" enough to be in that sample of blood that was taken, because we all KNOW that the researchers KNOW that they hide.
Please keep spreading the word on Chronic Lyme it is real. People like Dr. Oz are harming the Lyme community when they speak out against it. I hope the Lyme community stands together and sends him a message and won't give him ratings by NOT watching his new show - and let him KNOW why.
Andrea T.
Posted by: Andrea T | June 11, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Yes, it is real. I got two nasty bites a couple of years ago that my GP (who did not believe it was lyme) treated with a steroid. Steroid treatment is like gasoline on a fire with Lyme.
A year and a half later I had pains in my internal organs, my back felt as if it had multiple ice picks in it, my hands constantly went numb, my knee, hip and finger joints had horrible pain and then profound cognition problems started. I was an avid reader, but found I could no longer read more than a few sentences at a time without losing my train of thought.
I have now been treating for a year, and though I am not symtom free by a long shot, I am getting better. Long term antibiotics work. These doctors who dismiss chronic lyme "out of hand" are at best failures at their profession and at worst criminals.
Listen, this question should be asked:Why would a group of very active people (and chronic lyme folk are usually folks who have had a very full, active, outdoor life. I was a big hiker and camper.)suddenly wish to become inactive and take a ton of antibiotics? We are not crazy, we are in pain.
Posted by: J. Clark Nicholson | June 11, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Yes, of course chronic Lyme is real. I have a rather classic case of it. We had a summer home on the Long Island Sound growing up, which is ground zero for Lyme. I was exposed repeatedly and became terribly ill with all the usual symptoms: insomnia, memory loss, pain, crushing fatigue and swollen knees. I still suffer these symptoms, which respond to antibiotics, so I'm a firm believer in chronic infection. I also make my living as a scientist, so I can tell you that the science is clear - Lyme can persist in the body, it can resist short-term antibiotics, and it is becoming a pandemic.
Posted by: Borrelia Brain | June 11, 2009 at 09:11 AM
I have Lyme. Many have told me I don't even though I have a CDC positive Lyme test and just about every symptoms of the disease. When I go off treatment my symptoms return, on treatment I am functional. For now that is all I can hope for. I am a nurse and a mother and am horrified at the controversy over this disease. Doctors need to treat patients for symptoms, not ONLY based on testing that has been proven to be SO flawed. I have often said I would strongly prefer to have cancer, as then people would actually take me seriously and help me. Luckily I have found a doctor who is willing to help me...but so few know what the "best" treatments are, as the controversy over-shadows what really needs to be talked about which is what is and is NOT working for treatment.
Posted by: Blythe Clinger | June 11, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Thank you for posting this story! We have a chance to make a difference by spreading the word about Lyme disease and their co-infections. We can help more people than you can possibly imagine. It's a story bigger than you think. My entire family suffers from Lyme Disease and we are on the right track now, however it was hard to find. Most people never find that track.
Posted by: Lorrie N | June 11, 2009 at 07:26 AM
As a family recently touched by Lyme (my 2 1/2 yr old son), we are shocked at the medical community's failure to treat an illness that does exist in chronic fashion. I am awaiting testing next month to see if I have it as well. PLEASE, PLEASE help get the word out. It is a serious illness that needs attention. We are seeing a LLMD (Lyme Literate MD) for my son's condition which is only Lyme and Bartonella, thankfully! He never had a bullseye rash, we never saw a bite and we never saw a tick (stats I've seen in my research vary from 30-50% of the time that the rash actually appears). He did have swollen lymph nodes last summer that I think meant Lyme (lasted a week or more and went to the pediatrician). He also had a rash but they thought it was hoof, foot and mouth because that was going around. I think it was all Lyme - we just didn't know it. I can't prove it, but that's my instinct. This was over a year ago; a problem being diagnosed so late as it's harder to eradicate the bacteria from your body. It's very scary as you may not have symptoms that you would even link to Lyme. Since he's so young, we can't ask him how he's feeling. Lyme was diagnosed because he fell in the house while we were playing and his right knee swelled up for 4-5 days, we had x-rays taken with no visible fracture and an orthopedic though it was Lyme (thank goodness as the blood results showed positive). Even the blood tests they do according to CDC guidelines are ridiculously frustrating - you need an independent lab look for certain bands. He seems to be responding to antibiotics but we won't know how well until our follow-up visit. I was told by my pediatrician's office that we shouldn't really see the physician in New Haven, CT because he's been investigated by the CT Medical Board, he's on the fringe, etc. Well, if he's going to help my son and he's helped THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN...Wouldn't any parent do what they could? Any rational person who does any research on Lyme Disease can see it's under-reported or not accurately reported by the CDC. One cannot understand the medical community's refusal to help those people who have chronic Lyme. It's not in their heads. There are now LLMD's who think Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia may be Lyme. It's not in people's heads - its' REAL and Lyme sufferers need help especially our children! Thank you for helping to promote the film, Under Our Skin! I pray people wake up to the devastating effects of this insidious disease so research funding can occur, a vaccine to prevent Lyme, insurance will cover it, etc, etc....Meanwhile people continue to suffer. It's very sad! Please keep spreading the word!!
Posted by: N Peck | June 11, 2009 at 06:56 AM
I have a family member with chronic lyme. It is chronic because it was never diagnosed until at least 2 years after infection. This person is a young man of 23 years who was once a hard working college student and is now completely house bound and disabled. He is currently seeing a doctor who "believes in" chronic lyme and we are seeing slow, but steady, improvement.
Posted by: M. Kearney | June 11, 2009 at 06:38 AM
There should be NO QUESTION in the medical community that chronic Lyme exists. There are SO MANY cases (real people's lives !) that prove it - as well as cold, hard facts from the labs. I had total deafness in one ear, and many of the above-mentioned symptoms before being tested & diagnosed with Lyme. That took two years. Original diagnosis was a "viral infection" from the ENT specialist, then MS from the neurologist. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones whose insurance pays (I'm still being treated 3-1/2 years later), and am able to keep working. A CURE NEEDS TO BE FOUND SOON !! People are suffering.
Posted by: Vicki | June 11, 2009 at 06:37 AM
Barbara, thank you for writing the above article! We are pleased to see it there.
Yes, UNDER OUR SKIN dvd tells the complete lyme, war controversy story.
It's bad enough to fight to get drs. to treat us, but to enter this unsuspecting war is pure HOG WASH!
I've had chronic lyme for 39.5 years; 34.5 yrs. MISDIAGNOSED BY 40-50 DRS!! UNACCEPTABLE!!
We didn't know that 300 other illnesses MIMIC lyme including thesE: ALS, MS, parkinson's, bell's pulsy, Alzheimer's/dementia, fibromyalgia pain, chronic fatigue, most mental illnesses, & list goes on.
Lyme statistics for 50 states link:
1980 ? Jan. 2008 ?all 50 states broken down by years!
Please follow up your article with more lyme and co-infection/meaning other illnesses the ticks carry!
Thank you Barbara for a job well done!
BettyG, Iowa lyme activist
Posted by: Betty G, Iowa lyme activist | June 11, 2009 at 01:45 AM
Is it real?
4 members of my family have chronic Lyme. My sister and mom spent 18 months at a clinic- far away from home- my sister has a 5 year old she left behind. They were on IV antibiotics 7 days a week, and could hardly do anything besides go to the clinic and sleep. My sister has had Lyme, Batonella & Babesioses since she was young- and it is destroying her life. It's a joke that people question it's existence- they usually don't when someone they love gets sick with it.
My sister almost died- and doctors misdiagnosed her too -made her feel like she was insane.
more people need to be aware of this- to take precautions...
IDSA needs to change the guidelines so that people can get proper treatment and insurance companies will stop balking at the necessary costs- it's cheaper to treat it throughly at the onset rather than wait until it's migrated throughout the body and through every system.
THAT's what I can't believe is real!
Please write about it- to educate people, to generate more dialogue- to hopefully create some change in policies.
Posted by: Allison | June 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Hi, saw you were speaking about Lyme via my twitter account. I saw the movie and it is worth the watching. Some people have gone through so much with these pesky ticks. I feel for your reader that have encountered Tick Diseases. On a liter note, to hear a showtune style song I wrote, "The Tick Song" you can hear it @ www.MySpace.com/MsDawnTheSingingNurse
Enjoy...Dawn Ginese, RN, TSN
Posted by: Dawn Ginese, The Singing Nurse | June 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Myself and my three children have lyme. We travel hundreds of miles from home to get treatment for our children. Even the best chidrens hospitals refuse to help. It is very scary that chronic lyme disease isn't recongnized in our country. Without treatment I believe I would not be here. I am only in my 30's and hate to even think what my life will be like in another 30 years, and especially what the future holds for my children. Thank you so much for considering putting an article in Womans Day.
God Bless!
Posted by: mother of 3 | June 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I have chronic lyme and so does my twin sister. We are both 50 and we've probably had it most of our lives. I've been in treatment for over three years and my sister for two. We are both slowly improving but it's a long tough battle.
I was a very successful sales executive before I had to quit work permanently a couple years ago. I hope to go back to work but right now I'm too sick.
We need more research for better testing, better treatment and a CURE. Too many people are suffering (most without a proper diagnosis) - especially the children.
Lyme awareness has been improving but we have a long way to go.
Posted by: mary hopkins | June 10, 2009 at 10:56 PM
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FBI agents have begun questioning witnesses in the investigation into whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's aides threatened to cut off Hurricane Sandy relief money to Hoboken unless the city's mayor backed a billion-dollar development project, three sources with direct knowledge of the probe told NBC News on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors and agents have also instructed key witnesses to preserve all documents and emails relating to the allegations by Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, these sources said.
After Zimmer gave her account of the alleged threat to federal prosecutors on Sunday, federal agents questioned Dan Bryan, Zimmer's chief of staff, and Juan Melli, her communications director, the sources said.
The two Zimmer aides are among at least five witnesses who Zimmer told the FBI could confirm that she had previously told them about the conversation she says she had with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno last May. Zimmer has alleged that during that conversation in a parking lot, the lieutenant governor linked Sandy funding to backing of the development project.
David Mello, a member of the Hoboken City Council, told NBC News that Zimmer told him about the Guadagno conversation last summer, either in late July or early August as they were walking home after an event. "I distinctly remember [Zimmer] saying that the lieutenant governor said, 'If this came out, she would deny it,'" he said.
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Mello, a Zimmer ally who said he strongly opposed Christie's re-election, said he is arranging through the Hoboken city counsel to provide his account to the U.S. attorney's office.
Bryan and Melli declined further comment, citing a request from the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman that city officials not discuss the probe publicly. "I can confirm that the mayor has said that the U.S. attorney's office is in Hoboken and talking to people," said Melli.
Guadagno in a statement to reporters Tuesday adamantly denied Zimmer's account of the May conversation, calling it "false" and "offensive." A Christie press spokesman has also strongly denied Zimmer's account and suggested that it contradicts earlier statements she has made that were supportive of the Republican governor.
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Meanwhile, Hoboken City Council approved the hiring of attorney Gerald Krovatin to represent Zimmer during the probe. The city will set aside up to $17,000 for legal fees. Krovatin usually charges $600 per hour but he offered to work for $350 per hour on this case.
The council backed the move by a 5-4 vote on Wednesday night.
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Diet is strictly controlled, so eating popcorn in bed during a film will usually not be allowed. From start to finish, participants will often have very little choice as to what they can eat or even when they are allowed to eat. All in the name of science.
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Plan to spend the holidays with Sperry's, but don't look for Sabina's Wood Fired Restaurant.
Booking parties, New Year's Eve To celebrate the holiday season with its patrons, Sperry's restaurant will arrange on- and off-premises gatherings, with 10 percent off parties booked from Sunday through Wednesday. Holiday gift certificates are also available. For those entertaining at home, the restaurant offers a holiday a la carte menu, which includes such dishes as autumn-spiced pumpkin bisque, all-natural boneless turkey breast and bourbon pecan pie. Sperry's New Year's Eve theme this year is Bollywood. The proprietors are planning a night full of color, music, film, fun and great food. Special prix fixe and regular menus will be available. To make a New Year's Eve reservation, call 584-9618. In other news, Sperry's Chef Mike Spain recently won a Gold Medal and the Grand Award at the 22nd annual Culinary Cornucopia. The winning entree was an autumn spiced venison chop with sweet potato spaetzle, swiss chard with toasted pine nuts and Lingonberry sauce. For more information about the Culinary Cornucopia, go to livingresources.org/FOUNDATION/Cornucopia.htm. Sperry's is located at 30-1/2 Caroline St. in Saratoga Springs. Go to www.sperrysrestaurant.com.
Sabina's restaurant mysteriously closes Sabina's Wood Fired Restaurant locked up for good earlier this month, with not so much as a notice posted on its doors. The telephone number and website are no longer operational, and the eatery's sign has been removed. Located at 237 Union Ave. in Saratoga Springs, across from the Saratoga Race Course, the building originally housed popular pizza joint Bruno's from 1987 to 2008, under a succession of three owners. Sabina's opened in 2009, bought by chef Joseph DeVivo, who was the original owner and chef of Saratoga Springs' Maestro's. Fire struck Sabina's small prep building in early August, caused by a malfunctioning electrical clothes dryer. No injuries occurred and the restaurant itself was undamaged. Smoke and water damage affected the prep building; however, the restaurant and patio opened again that day. Some online commenters hoped Sabina's would reopen, while others shrugged off the loss of one Spa City eatery.
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Oskar Steffen, Andrew MacGregor Robertson and Hendrik Kirsten in the mid-1970s were three very different men who shared a common ambition and desire. Though separated only by a few years in age, they had different personalities and enjoyed different areas of professional expertise — the first was a leading specialist in the great gaping maws of open-pit mining, the second a master of soils and foundations, and the third an expert in the structural stresses and extraordinary pressures of rock mechanics.
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Steffen, Robertson and Kirsten began their working partnership with each man already fairly busy — they moved what they were doing on their own into a shared environment and planned to grow as a result of synergy. Each brought clients into the partnership. Although the success of a specialised geotechnical services firm might not be assured, the men and their expertise were in demand from the moment they set up shop.
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3 | Crossing the Atlantic
Andy Robertson arrived in Vancouver in August 1977, the same month that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, opened the Lookout Restaurant atop Harbour Centre, the city's tallest building at 147 metres. Dubbed "the little village on the edge of the rainforest," Vancouver, and Canada's West Coast, was a far different place than conservative, racially divided Johannesburg. It was liberal writ large, Canada's California, home to a healthy counterculture and a frontier's entrepreneurial, caveat emptor ethics. Robertson's marketing enthusiasm and ambition made the city the perfect place for him to make a landing.
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4 | South African Growth
SRK was on the verge of a boom in South Africa when Andy Robertson departed for North America in August 1977. Over the following decade, it greatly expanded the range of services being offered, which was why it was able to support its sister operation in North America during the 1982 downturn. In spite of the worsening racial tensions, the firm grew across the country, and its increasingly solid reputation brought international work. It created a bankable brand in civil engineering as well as mining, with landmark projects and the widening scope of its work.
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5 | North American Challenges
Recovering from the 1982 recession and rebuilding the North American business proved more difficult than Andy Robertson had expected. The handful of people in the Denver office had survived the slump without too much difficulty, thanks to the solid projects they already had on the go. In fact, the Denver office grew from 13 to 18 in 1982–1984. Ian Hutchison continued to develop the water practice and John Welsh's geotechnical section provided the bulk of the work, primarily the Thompson Creek tailings project. During his regular visits from Vancouver, Robertson was involved at an executive level — working on tenders or contract bids, reviewing major projects, recruiting staff, keeping track of the financials. Everyone was fairly independent in terms of pursuing clients and projects.
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6 | Ex-Pats Return to the U.K.
In early 1981, Neal Rigby found himself tossing and turning, unable to sleep. The increasing tension in South Africa coupled with the distance from supportive relatives was proving too difficult for his family. His wife wanted to return to the U.K. Rigby feared it spelled the end of the best job he had ever had. He loved working for SRK, and he didn't know how he was going to tell Dick Stacey, his boss and mentor for three and a half years, that he was leaving.
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7 | Globalisation
The growth of SRK throughout the 1980s, and the organisational change that produced, sparked a self-conscious discussion within the company about its values, its core business and its culture. More and more partners came to agree that the group share structure and worldwide network of corporate entities that had developed over the years needed to be rationalised. The entire group was in want of better order in the same way as the South African unit had needed restructuring. It was also clear that the founders and first generation of the company needed an exit strategy, which was complicated given the turmoil in South Africa and the size of their shareholding.
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8 | South America
In May 1985, Dennis Laubscher, a crusty geologist who joined SRK from Zimbabwe as a leading expert in block-cave mining, had a telephone call from Fluor Daniel in South America. The Chilean state-owned mining corporation, Codelco (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, the national copper corporation of Chile), wanted him to look at the Andina Mine, about 50 kilometres northeast of Santiago. He was soon on a plane to South America.
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9 | Australia
By the late 1980s, Australia was the world's third-ranking mining country — the largest producer of aluminum and lead, second-largest of iron ore and zinc, fifth in coal, eighth in copper. More importantly, changes in gold processing technology meant that a massive increase in gold production was also underway. With demand for specialist services on the increase and more and more clients offering work Down Under, SRK wanted to be a part of the action.At the same time, civil unrest in South Africa was taking an increasing toll on SRK SA. Many of those who wanted to leave weren't interested in moving to the U.K. Brian Wrench was one.
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10 | A Reinvigorated North America
In addition to the SRK Group's reasons for reforming the way North America was doing business in the 1990s, the internal North American corporate dynamics required attention. What was a top-down model had to be transformed into a partnership model, where a broader range of senior staff participated in decisions. But that desire to better reflect the values of the group and put power into the hands of those who made it work could triumph only as an evolution and not a revolution. Allowing time for the change to happen organically rather than imposing it was critical. As a result, the SRK Group in the final years of the 20th century and the first few years of the 21st spent significant time making sure it got the transition to an international consultancy right.
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11 | Europe – Life After Coal
In the wake of the end of the British Coal deal at the end of 1994, SRK UK initially scrambled for work. The number of people ebbed to some 25 full-time staff as the consultants from other SRK offices and contract personnel left. Surprisingly little work came SRK UK's way from the privatised coal industry.
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12 | South Africa
In 1990, SRK began planning to leave downtown Johannesburg. Security, as much as space, was becoming an increasing concern. In April 1991, the Johannesburg offices moved into 265 Oxford Road, Illovo. More than 180 employees of SRK and Gemcom were involved, bringing to fruition months of extensive consultations, planning and effort. The purpose-designed 3,000-square-metre office block was set in garden-like surroundings. By 1997 it was too small, and another 1,600 square metres were added.
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13 | Asia and the 21st Century
Work waltzed in the door for SRK as depressed commodity prices recovered in the opening years of the new millennium. The competition turned out to be not for contracts but for people — experienced, qualified staff. There weren't enough, especially in the swath of developing nations where mining development was again proceeding at a breakneck pace. The company disliked establishing shop-window offices in new countries; storefront façades to attract clients who were then serviced by consultants parachuted in to complete the work. It preferred to work along with and ultimately depend on local talent.
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14 | Epilogue Broken English
On the eve of its 40th anniversary, SRK had matured into a global group with more than 50 permanent offices in 23 countries on 6 continents. It boasts more than 1,500 scientists, geologists, engineers, specialists, managers and support staff — experts in exploration, resource evaluation, due diligence, geotechnical services, water, environmental management, project evaluation, tailings, waste, extractive metallurgy and mineral processing. It is a multi-specialist consultancy, owned by the staff, with the long list of internal shareholders produced as an appendix in each annual report.
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Legacy – s/t (2010, Eonian Records)
- Salvation Is Law
- It's Real
- Cross The Line
- Forever In Your Arms
- Don't Run Away
- Red, White And Blue
- Change Of A Broken Heart
- Comin' Along
- Soldiers Unite
- One Way Or Another
- Live It
- What A World
- Model Citizen
- Vision Of Perfection
Band Lineup:
Doug Meacham – Lead Vocals
Matt Rice – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Fred Blanchard – Guitars & Backing Vocals
John D. Rice – Bass & Backing Vocals
"Jungle" John Jenkins – Drums
Executive Producer: Stephen Craig
Producers: Legacy
Country: Columbus, Ohio USA
Total Time = 56:26
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Legacy is a Christian Metal band from Columbus, Ohio that fell through the cracks back in the late '80s. Back in Metal's commercial heyday, Christian Metal, or White Metal, was considered something of an oddity even though you had the commercially successful Stryper breaking though to radio and MTV and touring nationally. Even though bands in the Christian Rock scene had a loyal legion of fans, the genre was more niche and you had many other bands like Barren Cross, Messiah Prophet, Whitecross and Petra releasing albums and touring in relative obscurity. Legacy followed the same path as many '80s bands did by writing and gigging but they never received a proper record deal, the band disbanded in 1992 and their music remained unreleased…..until now. Eonian Records has stepped up to the plate again to release another long lost set of recordings that should have seen a proper release back when they were recorded. Through cooperation with the band, Eonian has released Legacy's debut album, LEGACY.
Legacy's sound is definitely '80s Hard Rock and Metal so if your a fan of that era then you're going to hear influences from Stryper, Dokken, Firehouse and a bit of the Scorpions. All the instrumentation is top quality, Matt Rice and Fred Blanchard are a talented and formidable guitar duo while the rhythm section of John Rice and John Jenkins are as solid as they come. What defines the Legacy sound is the vocals. As with most '80s bands, a solid singer is the key to success as they were the primary focal point of the band. Doug Meacham is a solid singer that draws obvious comaprisons to Don Dokken and Michael Sweet (Stryper) but I can also hear some Ted Poley (Danger Danger) and C.J. Snare (Firehouse). Overall, the music has all the big '80s characteristics with the big harmonies, catchy chrouses, solid riffs and solos and that melodic hook that keeps you coming back for more.
Opening with an acoustic guitar intro, 'Salvation Is Law' starts the album with a fast Metal pace showcasing the guitars and you forget all the stereotypes of Christian Metal not rocking hard. Same thing goes for 'It's Real' and 'Cross The Line', these songs are heavy on the Metal riffs and leads but the commercial aspect comes through Meacham's lead vocals and the background harmonies. The Stryper/Dokken influence is obvious with the commercial sounding 'Forever In Your Arms', a hit single back in the '80s if I ever heard one! Doug Meacham sounds very much like Don Dokken here and there's a bit of an echo effect on the vocals but the guy still has plenty of melodic range, this is one of my favorite tracks on LEGACY. This is how the album flows: a couple of heavy and metallic songs followed by an overly commercial sounding song, and on and on.
'Don't Run Away' has a very heavy main riff but it sounds a little processed while 'Red, White & Blue' is a mid-paced chugger that sounds like early U.S. Metal circa 1981/1982. Another commercial sounding track is 'Change Of A Broken Heart', definitely another possible hit for the band had they found a record deal back in the day. It's a melodic single with huge harmonies on the chorus and crystal clear solos, the Metal grit from other songs is gone and it kind of reminds me of PRIDE era White Lion, good song though. Following the album's pattern, 'Comin' Along' revs into high gear again with a solid guitar sound and big vocals, 'Soldiers Unite' is a metallic battle cry with some high pitched vocals from Meacham and 'One Way Or Another' races along until the chorus. 'Live It' enters commercial Stryper territory with that big clean sound and, for the first time, I really notice the religious lyrics. That's the thing with a lot of Christian Metal bands, the lyrics are usually too obvious but on this album they really aren't and that makes it a little more listenable for me. Legacy returns to the heavy with the straight forward pounder 'What A World' and an Iron Maiden influence on the guitarwork in 'Model Citizen' and 'Visions Of Perfection'. Actually, the twin leads on 'Visions OF Perfection' is almost dead on to Dave Murray & Adrian Smith but the vocals aren't close to Bruce Dickinson by any means, Doug Meacham going for a more melodic and reserved approach compared to the Dickinson's air raid siren although he does hit some high notes.
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You can just hear the potential Legacy had back in the mid to late '80s, they could be heavy and fast and then go opposite and cater to the MTV generation. Maybe this is the reason they didn't get signed? Maybe the band's varying sound made it harder to put them in a specific style? Back then label executives had to have something to sell and it usually meant the softer, more melodic, "hair band" style. Legacy has a few of those songs but the rest are straight up Heavy Metal that could sit alongside an Armored Saint or a Steeler or other heavier L.A. Metal bands. I was pleasantly surprised by this album and I didn't even know it was Christian Metal until I read the promo kit and CD booklet. I like the White Metal bands too so it would have never been an issue for me just like Satanic-influenced Metal doesn't bother me either. It's great to finally discover Legacy and the great music they made in the late '80s but it's a crime to have to wait 20+ years to hear it! Congratulations to Eonian Records for another solid release and here's to Legacy continuing theirs with some new music soon.


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There's no place like home, especially if the said home is designed with minimal environmental impact in mind.
Even though environmental safety may not a home make all on its own, it's still vital for lasting health and a safer and greener future for the generations to come. But how do you tell if your nest is 100% safe from eco-hazards, and what are the most common environmental issues you should eliminate from your private safety bubble? Continue reading


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There's a pleasant amount of insanity The Middle, especially given how generic it looks at first glance. It's self-aware, but not in the usual fourth-wall-breaking fashion; it doesn't wink at the camera like it could. No, its characters aren't aware that they're in a sitcom, but the show's world is well-aware that the characters are sitcom characters, and, really, they're insane. Especially Frankie, which is particularly interesting because, in the vast majority of sitcoms, the mom is the sanest character.
Not this time, though. Brick's having trouble with math at school, and Frankie and Mike try to help him… until they realize that they can't do the math either. So they try to learn, which involves dealing with Brick's teacher Miss Rinsky (played by Doris Roberts), who's banned them from the school. She tries to be helpful, holding a math class for parents. Mike gets it. Frankie doesn't. But she tries. Vocally.
Here's where the sitcom-ness kicks in. Theoretically, the class is for all the parents. There are about a dozen in the room, and obviously, only two are the Hecks. Yet they're the only ones who have any kind of conversation or dialogue. The others are merely there for background color. The show is about the Hecks, all we care about are the Hecks, and the Hecks dominate the discussion. This is our expectation for a sitcom.
However, The Middle subverts that expectation by having everyone else realize that, well, Frankie is kind of insane. She feels embarrassed by Miss Rinsky, so she starts ranting to Mike about how she's too old and jaded and shouldn't be teaching kids such important stuff. Indeed, she has a few beers and fires off an angry e-mail to the principal, thinking she's making a sane and reasoned argument about how Rinsky is failing her kid. It's not sane, as she figures out the next morning when she reads it to Mike and notices that it includes the line "She would have made a fine… Nazi…." So the Hecks go in to meet with the principal, who pulls out a file on Frankie. Yes, Frankie has a file, and it includes accurate descriptions of how over-the-top she is. It's pretty normal behavior for a sitcom character, who has to have 20-odd wacky adventures per year. But it's not normal behavior for a sane person, and everyone in the room, including her husband, is quite aware of this.
Overall, this was the strongest episode of The Middle I've seen. It maintained a great level of humor throughout, especially with Mike and Frankie's bickering, and it was interesting on a character level as well. There are several other nice touches in the episode. I like how Brick is a language nerd and not a math nerd. Pop culture almost always defaults nerdy children into being great at math, instead of preferring books. Also, Frankie's rant about this teacher being exactly what's wrong with the system sounded oddly familiar, thanks to the recent hubbub in Wisconsin, but despite the often conservative underpinnings of the show, it wasn't ready to throw in with the National Review and instead demonstrated that she was wrong and even kind of the villain of the episode for it.
Sue and Axl have a much less interesting side plot as they try to help their aunt find a time capsule. It falls too easily in the cliché "kids learn that old people aren't just boring" storyline. However, there's some fun to be had with the bickering of the two kids. There's also an amazing sight gag with Axl practicing his nunchucks in his boxers in front of the mirror. It may be weaker than the A-plot, but it's still good for maintaining the comedy of a very good episode.
I Told You What Was Funny:
- Frankie tries to convince Brick that math is important. "Oh, even I can't say it like I believe it."
- "You should show her a picture of me!" Mike explains how to show your work.
- "Am I going to have to separate you two?" "Please!"
- "Look at Beyoncé." Sue thinks Beyoncé is the epitome of selflessness. It's kind of awesome.
- "You're alive!" "I am?"
- When Sue, Axl, and Aunt Edie are driving around, the camera shows them suddenly drinking from fast-food cups. Seemed like a direct reference to The Big Lebowski, but even if not, it's still a good visual gag.
- "I just love my family. I think it's really an overused word." The principal's assistant tells Frankie she "loves" Miss Rinsky."
- "I have a file?"
- "And please, get help with your drinking. Brick needs a mother."


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Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies was arrested early Wednesday morning for DUI. There is nothing funny about driving drunk, but the details of Helton's arrest, obtained by TMZ.com, will leave you shaking your head.
According to the report, cops tracked down Helton after receiving a tip that Todd's black Ford F-150 had struck a median and then parked at a nearby gas station...When cops arrived to the scene, police say they saw Helton stumbling out of the gas station -- stinking of booze -- and clutching lottery tickets in his hand...Cops say Helton denied striking a median ... but "made spontaneous statements about drinking two igloo cups of red wine."
So Helton, who has made $156.5 million in his career, was allegedly driving after drinking wine out of a plastic cup, didn't call a car service, and was arrested while buying lottery tickets.


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ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington University's Special Education Technology Center (SETC) has received a $360,000 grant for the 2013-14 academic year to support assistive technology in K-12 public schools. This grant comes from the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to support the SETC in its statewide needs project.
The grant is the SETC's primary funding source. It is used it to cover costs for disseminating information, providing consultations to school districts, stocking and maintaining its assistive technology lending library, and offering in-service trainings ranging from full-day conferences to webinars and tech support.
The SETC provides all 296 public school districts in the state with training, technologies, and services that assist students with special educational needs. It also provides services to the families of these students through their child's school district.
"Our purpose is to ensure that students with special educational needs have the opportunity to learn and receive an education appropriate to their needs and abilities, " says SETC Director Jerry Connolly. "The SETC is the only assistive technology resource in the state that focuses specifically on K-12 public schools. Without the SETC, school districts and families would have to rely on philanthropy, private funds, or state services like [the Department of Social and Health Services]."
The SETC is one of six projects that the OSPI funds to support special education within Washington State. Each project focuses on a different facet of special education, such as assistive technology, sensory disabilities, or autism. The SETC has training/consultation centers in Ellensburg, Tacoma, Federal Way, and Spokane. They also provide training at each of the nine Educational Service Districts around the state and, per request, at any school district site.
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Hiraeth (Destiny Records ). Review by Stacey Zering.
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Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don't care if you don't understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.
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Newly restored, this British dream horror has never looked better.
The Pandemic Songs (Saustex Records). Review by James Mann.
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Well into their third decade, G. Love and Special Sauce still sound like they are in no particular hurry to get there.
Illustrators and artists reimagine famous works of literature as one panel cartoons.
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It took Cheo a couple of years to get back into his usual Latin-flavored slinky tinkles after leaving his previous band, but we're all glad to hear he's back.


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Arnold Palmer Airport may not have air traffic controllers
The Arnold Palmer Regional Airport would have no air traffic controllers if there is no new budget deal in Washington by Friday. The White House included the Latrobe, Westmoreland County airport on the list of those that would see all its air traffic controllers furloughed under the sequester, the forced federal budget cuts that will kick in without an agreement.
Travelers bound for Myrtle Beach today wonder how they will get back if those furloughs mean their aircraft cannot land at Latrobe. Pilots say the furloughs do not necessarily mean they cannot take off and land here.
"Air traffic control towers are a wonderful convenience, and they help with safety, but, they're certainly not necessary for all airports," says Rob Dixon, a captain for Vee Neal Aviation. He says pilots simply use their radios to announce what they are about to do. Dixon says, "Any traffic who hears that will announce themselves saying that they're on a downwind, a base, or a final. Everybody should have their lights on, see and avoid, and that's what we do."
Spirit Airlines operates several flights a day out of Latrobe. A spokesperson for the airline says, "It's too early to know what, if any, impacts this will have on our operations. However, we are analyzing a variety of possible scenarios in order to determine how best to accommodate our customers in the event of any service disruptions caused by government spending cuts."
If there are furloughs, it would be up to the airline and individual pilots to decide if they will take off and land at Latrobe.
"I don't want to fly without air traffic controllers," says traveler Sheila Dougherty, "Please don't do this, I mean this budget thing is ridiculous, we have to get some people moving on this." Air travelers urge Congress and the president to come up with a deal and stave off furloughs; something they do not want to think about on vacation.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Internal Revenue Service is warning that thieves are getting their hands on people's refunds check before the taxpayers even file their taxes.
Oceanway resident Sarah Bielling fell victim to this identity theft tax fraud this year. She's always filed her own taxes online without a problem, but this year while submitting her 1040 form, she got an error message.
"At the end of the process, it kicked it back and said that the IRS did not accept it. So I went back onto the website and it said to correct some errors. It said that my Social (Security number) was wrong, so I went and made sure it was typed in correctly, which it was, and I was given an error message to call the IRS," Bielling said.
It turns out she didn't enter the wrong Social Security number, but that someone else used her number to file before she did.
"They make up a fictitious W-2. They make up fictitious 1099s and file a return before the legitimate return, before the taxpayer has filed," said Mark Patrick, a local CPA. "You have been taken so to speak. The IRS thinks you've filed and they won't accept your return."
Experts say this type of tax fraud is a growing trend. The IRS said it caught about 250,000 fake returns with refunds amounting to about $1.5 billion.
"Last year, from what I understand, there were over a million of these fictitious refunds that went out. So I would suspect there will be similar numbers this year," Patrick said.
The IRS says tax identify thefts are more prevalent in Florida than most states.
"We're finding most of it is the elderly, and that's coming from two situations. One, is their Social Security number is actually on their Medicare card, so anywhere that you go and use that -- which is quite often -- they potentially have access to that information," said Patrick.
The thieves leave their victims jumping through hoops. It could take up to a year for the victim to get their tax refund back.
To protect yourself from this fraud, experts say to shred papers that have your Social Security number on them. And something to keep in mind for next year: The earlier you file, the less time scammers have to try to get the refund before you do.


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I am amused by all the misdirection about a simple statement.
The quote was:
"Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
8th grade English demands that in a sentence you must make pronouns agree in person and number with their antecedents.
Had he said "those", it would be obvious he was talking about "roads and bridges" because you would go back TO THE LAST ANTECEDENT prior to the pronoun that agrees in number. "That", however is singular and the immediately preceding singular noun is "business". You have to go back another sentence to find another singular antecedent.
If the people that were trying to put it "into context" would simply attribute a grammatical mistake and say, "He meant 'those' instead of 'that'", they would me much better off. Of course that would meant that their "acclaimed orator" and Harvard educated Law Professor misspoke a simple sentence and that would be "racist".
The problem is that they understood that he said exactly what he meant, and the misdirection, instead of saying it was a common (among the less educated) grammatical mistake,proves that they understood it that way and are covering.
Kinda sorta reminiscent of "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" ain't it?


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