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“D-Day” and the Diagnosis That Changed Everything

https://www.lymedisease.org/diagnosis-changed-everything/

“D-Day” and the diagnosis that changed everything

Oct. 21, 2026

By Darlene DiBara O’Connor

A door closed. Then another swung wide open.

Wait.What?

You mean I might not really have ALS? I am not going to die a slow, painful death in my forties? And will still be here to raise my two young sons?

So, wait. Even after seeing 22+ practitioners, undergoing dozens of diagnostic procedures, and having numerous negative Lyme disease tests, I could still have it?

And it could be what is killing me right now?

These were the frantic questions, fraught with confusion and exhausting emotions that swirled in my brain or out of my mouth in that doctor’s office on October 16, 2013. The day after my mother’s funeral. That day that changed the course of my life–and my family’s lives–forever.

That day was what I now call my D-Day. The day that I was finally, properly diagnosed and then, successfully treated, by a brilliant and caring doctor from Connecticut. That visit saved my life, my sons’ lives, and many others in our family and beyond. This altered the course of my life. Forever.

Earlier that week, in the middle of the night, I bellowed the most guttural sobs while I prayed, on my hands and knees on my cold, kitchen floor. I vowed out loud to God, my dying mother’s mother, and the blessed St. Anne, that if WHATEVER “it” was that I really had, and was killing me, was truly revealed to me, I would beat it. And IF, whatever it was, was shown to me, I promised that I would dedicate the rest of my life to helping others with ‘it,’ also.

Oh, it was absolutely revealed to me. And I did get better. A lot better. And I kept my promise. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Yet another misdiagnosed Lyme/MSIDS patient who got well after getting the proper diagnosis and treatment.

Here’s some more:

I could go onto infinity with stories of misdiagnosis. Sadly, we are no better off than we were when it was first ‘discovered’ in the 80’s.

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

USDA Ordered 6 M Doses of ‘Experimental’ Plague Vaccine & Russia Plague Mystery: Separating Fact From Hype

**UPDATE**

I encourage you to read Sayer Ji’s article: The Plague Panic & Vaccines Were Ready Before the Diagnosis. In it you will learn that within 72 hours of a Siberian lab worker dying without a plague diagnosis, vaccine stocks shot up 20%, proving a fear narrative and countermeasure economy are fully built and waiting to be set in motion at any time by an unresolved death, long before any evidence. This is what should frighten you.

https://imahealth.substack.com/p/russia-plague-mystery-separating?

Russia Plague Mystery: Separating Fact From Social Media Hype

IMA’s Dr. Ryan Cole says Russia’s suspected plague death is unconfirmed and not an outbreak. After COVID, Americans should demand evidence before fear.

Independent Medical Alliance

October 8, 2026

IMA Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs Dr. Ryan Cole joined The National News Desk to separate fact from fiction in reports of a suspected plague death in Russia. A young woman who worked at a plague research laboratory in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, but testing has not confirmed plague. Dr. Cole explains that the story first spread through a Telegram channel, and that 90% of the roughly 200 people placed under observation have already been released. One death, he notes, does not make an outbreak.

Dr. Cole also takes on social media posts linking the case to an experimental mRNA plague vaccine, which he points out has only been studied in animal models. He explains that pneumonic plague rarely spreads from person to person, is treatable with antibiotics when caught early, and circulates on every continent except Australia among rodents and fleas most people rarely encounter. Looking back at COVID, when conclusions were drawn before the evidence was in, he urges Americans to demand evidence before believing a viral headline.

Check out these related resources from IMA below, followed by the full segment transcript.

(See link for interview and transcript)

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https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/usda-ordered-6-million-doses-of-experimental?

USDA Ordered 6 Million Doses of ‘Experimental’ Plague Vaccine the Same Month DEFUSE Proposed Spraying Its Carrier on Bats

The order was six times existing demand and equal to nearly 28 years of later annual bait sales, while DEFUSE-linked spray technology identified applications for “animals/humans.”

Jon Fleetwood

Oct. 8, 2026

USDA-APHIS procurement memorandum dated March 6, 2018, specifying 6 million doses of experimental recombinant raccoonpox vaccine (RCN-F1-V307), valued at $1.3 million, for manufacture into plague-vaccine bait for prairie dogs at the USDA Pocatello Supply Depot in Idaho. The document predates the April contract award and was prepared the same month Project DEFUSE was submitted to DARPA.

According to a March 2018 U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) contract award to Colorado Serum Company, the federal government contracted for an estimated 6 million doses of recombinant raccoonpox plague vaccine, using the same vaccine-carrier platform Project DEFUSE proposed that month for spraying vaccine material onto bats.

The plague-vaccine order was six times the doses USDA said it needed for existing customers and equivalent to nearly 28 years of the depot’s subsequently reported annual vaccine-bait sales.

Meanwhile, DEFUSE’s proposed delivery partner, PARC, described aerosol technology for biological applications involving “animals/humans.”

DEFUSE is the project submitted the year before the COVID-19 pandemic to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that characterized a pandemic response to a future SARS-CoV-2-like outbreak.

  • Why was the government contracting for millions of doses of a plague-vaccine platform while developing automated biological spraying?
  • What would be sprayed, and what informed consent protections would exist for potentially exposed people?

You can contact USDA here. (See link for article)

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Activism, research, Transmission, Treatment, vaccines

The Secret History of Lyme Disease the US Government Doesn’t Want You to Know

The secret history of Lyme disease the US government doesn’t want you to know | Unreported

Jun 17, 2026 Unreported with Meagan Medick

Nearly half a million Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year, and ER tick bite visits are hitting the highest levels since 2017. So why does it feel like nobody is sounding the alarm? And why is Congress now ordering a federal watchdog to dig through decades of classified Cold War military records searching for answers?

In this episode of “Unreported,” Meagan Medick sits down with author Kris Newby, who wrote “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” and is a senior producer on the Oscar semi-finalist documentary “Under Our Skin.” Together, they examine documented evidence that the U.S. government experimented on ticks as potential Cold War bioweapons, the whistleblower testimony of the scientist who discovered Lyme disease and why a mystery organism he identified in the original ticks was quietly removed from his discovery paper.

They also dig into the Lone Star tick experiments that may have seeded the Northeast with nonnative species, the rise of meat allergies and why a new Lyme vaccine is already raising red flags. Plus: what the Cold War records investigation in Congress could uncover and who controls what gets released.

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, Transmission

There’s a New Type of Lyme Disease in NY. OY.

https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/theres-a-new-type-of-lyme-disease-in-new-york-state-oy

There’s A New Type of Lyme disease in New York State. Oy.

Richard Horowitz

Jun 10, 2026

There are very few headlines that catch my eye. This one was surprising but not unexpected, since ticks are known to spread via travel on birds (and air travel has become more expensive these days, as I just found out after booking several flights). Here is the news release that made me pay more attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lyme-disease-rare-type-found-first-time-new-york-symptoms-severe-rcna348491

So what exactly is the ‘new type of Lyme disease (LD)’? It’s a strain of LD that is not normally found in NY State. Its Borrelia mayonii. The CDC just reported on it in their MMWR report. Here is a brief summary:

[From: Nafiz TN, Prusinski MA, Gubbala S, et al. Notes from the Field: Borrelia mayonii Lyme Disease — New York, 2025. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2026;75:271–272. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7521a2]

This is an important case study, because B. mayonii clinically presents differently than an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), so we need to understand how to properly diagnose and treat it if it is being found in new areas. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Dr. Horowitz points out that the rash with B. mayonii is not the ‘classic’ rash seen with Bb, which isn’t so classic either, and highly variable – although it’s completely diagnostic, proving infection – no testing even required. If you have the rash, you are infected, period.

But there is concern for more severe systemic illness with B. mayonii due to a high level of spirochetes in the blood.

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Lyme, research, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

Epidemiologist: ‘We Need Serious Investigations’ on Lone Star Ticks Causing AGS

May 26, 2026

#NEWSMAX

Dr. Nicolas Hulscher, epidemiologist, discussed how lone star ticks cause alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to red meat, and suggested “serious investigations” be conducted.

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Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, research, Ticks, Transmission