Please remember the support group meetings held in both Madison and Milwaukee on Saturday, October 21. For more information:
Madison: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/06/october-support-group-meeting/
Hope to see you there!
Our next meeting will be Saturday, October 21 from 2:30-4:40pm. (Doors unlock at 2:15 and relock at 3:15)
Please note the change of location: East Madison Police Station, 809 South Thompson Drive, Madison, WI
For parking: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/east-dist-parking-visitor-parking.pdf No parking allowed in red areas. You may park in the dotted yellow areas, in-between the light poles and in the last row under the red, as well as on the road leading up to the station.
This is just a regular support meeting. Please bring your questions, insights, and what has been working for you.
See you there!
Don’t forget we have a meeting this Friday at 5:30pm at Pinney. Speaker info here: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/20/madison-september-support-group-body-work/
Very practical talk. You will be given accupressure points for Lyme you can do on yourself.
Hope to see you there!
September Milwaukee Support Group Meeting:
October 21st 2017
11 am – 12 pm
Join us at the “East” Milwaukee Public Library in the Ellipse room for our first speaker meeting. Our speaker is a LMT that will talk about lymphatic massages, sensory deprivation tanks, essential oils, cupping and energy work as it relates to recovery from Lyme disease. Friends and family welcome. Hope to see you there!
http://mpl.org/hours_locations/east.php
contact Anne Marie Levendusky: info@educatedlyme.com
By Huib Kraaijeveld
For English subtitles, chose ‘settings’ (the cog symbol) in the Youtube screen, go to subtitles and select English.
Recently Dutch national television highlighted how at least fifty parents of children with Lyme in the Netherlands were accused of child abuse by the Child Protection Services during the last two years.
While the medical and political discussion about Lyme diagnosis and treatment remains a battlefield, as it has been for the last forty years, at least the people around these fifty families can see through the ‘if there is smoke, there must be a fire’ prejudice. If they don’t automatically believe the accusers, it makes all the difference in the world for the ones being accused. The broadcast did this beautifully by focusing on a few people, while no medical experts were included.
The mother in the broadcast, Erica Vrijmoet, wrote the Dutch book Chronically Happy as a ‘friction’ book about the adventures of her family with what she calls the ‘medical mafia’. In 2006 her husband and all of their three children were infected with Lyme by bugs in an Italian swimming pool and she spend all her time, energy and money on taking care of them and finding the possible treatments. After six years of trying to find help in Dutch hospitals, they find medical help abroad.
Her daughter Freek tells the viewers how both she and her sister were traumatised by the raid of ‘Safe Home’. “They tried to tell us that our parents were some sort of criminals. That they inflicted our illness upon us. To me, that was completely ridiculous. My parents were the only ones who fought for us. And then somebody just barges in, basically throws it all out of the window and claim my parents made me ill.”
Her mother Erica reads the ‘allegation’ against them out loud: “The parents were very tender and loving towards each other and their children in our presence. Also the nurses involved found this behaviour to appear unreal sometimes.” Based on accusations like these, they were accused of child abuse and making their children ill.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 