https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/

Censorship of the TBDWG Written Public Comment

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

Mar 9, 2022 — 

As I anticipated the TBDWG Staff censored my Written Public Comment for the Feb 28th meeting that’s why I sent the comment in advance on February 15th addressed to all members of the group. All of the 15 references that supported my statements were removed as well as the names of the physicians mentioned in my Written Public Comment.

Our Public Health Officials clearly want to suppress the truth/facts for Lyme and Covid

Here is my full Written Comment sent to all members of the TBDWG and posted as an update to this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/30214185

Here is the censored version posted to the TBDWG meeting page: (6th on the page)

https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/meetings/2022-02-28/written-public-comment/index.html

Below is my inquiry to the TBDWG asking for an explanation for this censorship: (no response as of Mar 9th)

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “tickbornedisease@hhs.gov” <tickbornedisease@hhs.gov>
Cc: All members of the TBDWG
Date: 03/01/2022 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Written Public Comment – February 28 – March 1, 2022 Meeting

To: The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group,

Regarding censorship of Written Public Comments; (As anticipated)

Why were 15 references and names of two physicians removed/redacted from my Written Public Comment?

Censorship:

Dr. Charles Ray Jones who has treated over 15,000 children and adolescents with Lyme Disease and other tick-borne diseases.

-Dr. Meryl Nass of Ellsworth Maine who had her license suspended.

-15 references supporting my statements.

A response to this inquiry is requested!

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

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**Comment**

Seems censorship is the latest fashion of tyranny:

I could literally go on to infinity with this.  The censorship and bullying is vast and wide.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/children-in-china-contract-leukemia-after-taking-chinese-vaccines

Children in China Diagnosed With Leukemia After Taking Chinese Vaccines

By Eva Fu
March 11, 2022 Updated: March 13, 2022

After receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Li Jun’s 4-year-old developed a fever and coughs, which quickly subsided after intravenous therapy at the hospital. But after the second shot, the father could tell something was wrong.

Swelling appeared around his daughter’s eyes and did not go away. For weeks, the girl complained about pains on her legs, where bruises started to emerge seemingly out of nowhere. In January, a few weeks after the second dose, the 4-year-old was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

“My baby was perfectly healthy before the vaccine dose,” Li (an alias), from China’s north-central Gansu Province, told The Epoch Times. “I took her for a health check. Everything was normal.”

He is among hundreds of Chinese that belong to a social media group claiming to be suffering from or have a household member suffering from leukemia, developed after taking Chinese vaccines. Eight of them confirmed the situation when reached by The Epoch Times. Names of the interviewees have been withheld to protect their safety. (See link for article)

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Important quote:

“Our doctor from the hospital told us that since November, the children coming to their hematology division to treat leukemia have doubled the previous years’ number and they are having a shortage of beds,” he said.

Similarly to censorship in the U.S., these parents are ignored and bullied. The police showed up, fabricated things, and ordered the parents to withdraw from the chat group, and the details of over 200 leukemia patients, filled out by group members, is no longer accessible.

For more: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/12/21/warning-3150-injuries-in-1st-week-of-covid-vaccines-among-american-healthcare-workers-pregnant-women-included/  VAERS data and mounting list of adverse reactions and deaths.

**UPDATE April, 2022**

HHS is far from alone.  Local, national media also paid MILLIONS to push COVID shots.

“We have just lived through the most expensive propaganda campaign in the history of the world and it was paid for with taxpayer dollars.  You paid for it, I paid for it.” ~ Emerald Robinson, former Newsmax reporter

Besides using bribery, investigative journalist Roger Charles has exposed the FBI’s “Sensitive Informant Program,” putting informants in the national media and other institutions supposedly to root out corruption, however:

“It is not a case of someone coming to the FBI offering to expose corruption. The bureau is recruiting spies.” ~ Jesse Trentadue, attorney

A recently released scathing, but heavily redacted, internal FBI audit found special agents breaking their own rules more than twice per reviewed case when investigating sensitive institutions. Other records suggest that the FBI used reporters as sources of information. Charles is also researching if the FBI has informants in the courts, Congress, media, and other government agencies. He argues that the court must decide whether FOIA exemptions advanced by the FBI for withholding portions of the FBI Manual apply, and if they do, can those exemptions be lawfully asserted to conceal unconstitutional and/or illegal activities.  The journalist has also uncovered undercover right-wing infiltration operations and previously hidden databases.

Some lawmakers are rightly questioning the bureau’s sweeping powers.

This historical lesson states that the CIA used to infiltrate the media but that now it IS the media.  For decades it has planted news stories in the media and continues on unabated.

And while the world was distracted by Will Smith, the internal elite met at the World Government Summit in Dubai where WEF head Klaus Schwab and ilk spoke of a “longer-term narrative” to make the world “more resilient, more inclusive, and more sustainable“. Interesting side-note to the Rock/Smith distraction is the fact that the 2022 Oscars were sponsored by Pfizer, the company that just happens to have a new Alopecia drug coming out very soon, which I’m sure is merely coincidental.  Seems everything today is “brought to you by Pfizer.”

https://thehighwire.com/videos/hhs-paying-newsrooms-to-promote-covid-vax-propaganda/  Video Here (Approx. 10 Min)

March 10, 2022

The following media outlets received HHS funding to peddle COVID jabs (your tax dollars at work):
  • ABC
  • CBS
  • NBC
  • Fox News
  • CNN
  • MSNBC
  • The New York Post
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Washington Post
  • Buzzfeed News
  • Newsmax
  • hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations

The HHS is tasked with ensuring “vaccine” safety.  How on earth can they do this AND bribe media outlets to peddle COVID shots by only reporting positive findings?

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HHS Peddling COVID shots

March 16, 2022

Again, this is not informed consent.  This is propaganda where people are being paid.  Not once do you hear there are effective treatments making a “vaccine” unneeded, but you also never hear that these injections don’t stop infection or transmission, have any measurable impact upon mortality, set people up for more severe illness, including hospitalization, and are linked to more adverse reactions and & death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.

This video shows clip after clip of news outlets stating the EXACT SAME THINGSNow we know why.  They were all paid and told what to say.  This even made the NY Times. And this montage shows how every commercial during the plandemic is also eerily the same.

http://  Approx. 2 Min

It’s not supply and demand, it’s supply and de(mandate)

Bret Weinstein PdD

March 14, 2022

Weinstein states that public health typically oversimplifies things to get you to do the “right” thing. He calls these “noble lies,” however, COVID has shown that the current lies are corrupt lies, which have resulted in massive amounts of money going to those with vested interests.  These companies are using the government to coerce the use of their products.  We need to be hyper vigilant that what we are being told is NOT in our best interest.

For more:

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The information War

Seems everyone is picking sides these days based on a simplistic accepted narrative.  Pfizer says it will stop clinical trials in Russia and donate all of its profits from the country to humanitarian aid efforts in Ukraine. (The Hill)

Pfizer has also put out creepy ads targeting children.  The ads claim kids that get the COVID jabs are “super heroes,” despite the fact children rarely get severe COVID, die from it, or transmit it.

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https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/03/14/nih-conflicts-of-interest

Massive Conflicts of Interest at the NIH

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
nih conflicts of interest

Story at-a-glance

  • One of the primary vehicles for kickbacks and fraud seems to be foundations associated with federal agencies. The reason they’re so frequently used for questionable transactions is because foundations are private entities and not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests and other open records laws
  • The board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) is heavily populated with Big Pharma players. This raises serious questions about conflicts of interest, as the foundation oversees the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars — unregulated funds that typically go right back into the coffers of the drug industry
  • This conflict of interest also, at least in part, helps explain the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and now-retired director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins. Both have gone out of their way to protect the makers of COVID shots and dismiss evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was created in and escaped from a lab
  • Dr. Julie Gerberding became the FNIH CEO March 1, 2022. She was formerly director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After leaving the CDC, she became the executive vice president of strategic communications at Merck
  • The FNIH’s board of directors includes seven current or former drug company executives, the FDA, the Sackler family (notorious for its creation of a deadly opioid epidemic), Johns Hopkins (co-sponsor of Event 201, which “predicted” COVID-19 and the subsequent destruction of human rights), and two major investment bankers, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock

One of the primary vehicles for kickbacks and fraud seems to be foundations associated with federal agencies. This article will highlight and expose yet another way we are being conned and manipulated by examining the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health1 (FNIH), whose board is plastered with major Big Pharma players.

This raises serious questions about conflicts of interest, seeing how the foundation oversees the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars — unregulated funds that typically go right back into the coffers of the drug industry. It’s a very clever strategy to extract even more funds from the American taxpayers.

This conflict of interest also, at least in part, helps explain the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and now-retired director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins.2 Both have gone out of their way to protect the makers of COVID shots and dismiss evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was created in and escaped from a lab.

FNIH Board — A Who’s Who of Big Pharma

In 2020, Fauci received the FNIH’s Charles A. Sanders MD Partnership Award for his leadership and support of “FNIH programs propelling research in lethal infectious diseases.”3

Dr. Charles Sanders was the FNIH chairman between 1996 and 2016. Before that, he was the chairman and CEO of Glaxo Inc. He also spent eight years with Squibb Corp., where he held several positions, including CEO of the Science and Technology Group.4 He’s currently a member of the FNIH board of directors.

In the video above, Fauci is interviewed by Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall about his career, his achievements and the public-private partnerships that allowed for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the rapid deployment of a COVID-19 jab. Lewis-Hall is a former chief medical officer and executive vice president at Pfizer. She is also a current board member of the FNIH.

Another striking member of the FNIH’s board is Dr. Julie Gerberding. If you have a sharp memory for details, you may recall she served as director of the CDC from 2002 to 2009.

After resigning from the CDC, she entered the express revolving door between industry and government and was hired by Merck as their vice president in charge of vaccines. Imagine that — the head of the government agency responsible for policing vaccines is hired by one of the world’s largest producers of vaccines.

Sadly, it’s all perfectly legal. Later, she oversaw global public policy and strategic communications at Merck, followed by a position as chief patient officer and executive vice president for population health and sustainability.5 Gerberding has now taken her nefarious behavior to an entirely new level. She’s slid back through yet another revolving door and is the CEO of FNIH as of March 1, 2022.6 Other FNIH board members include:

Chairman Dr. Steven Paul, CEO and chairman of Karuna Therapeutics
Marijn Dekkers, Ph.D., chairman of Novalis LifeSciences
Paul Herrling, Ph.D., chairman for the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases
Dr. Paul Stoffels, vice chairman of the executive committee and chief scientific officer for Johnson & Johnson
Jillian Sackler, president and CEO of the Dame Jillian and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
James Donovan, a Goldman Sachs partner
Russel Steenberg, managing director and global head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners

The two non-voting directors are Collins and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the current commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. This is quite the list.

We’ve got seven current or former drug company executives, the CDC, the FDA, the Sackler family (notorious for its creation of a deadly opioid epidemic), Johns Hopkins (co-sponsor of Event 201, which “predicted” COVID-19 and the subsequent destruction of human rights), and two major investment bankers, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

The inclusion of BlackRock is particularly interesting, and disturbing, considering they have a hidden monopoly on global asset holdings. Together with Vanguard, BlackRock has ownership in some 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. If you add in the third-largest global asset holder, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.7 Just what is BlackRock doing on the FNIH’s board of directors?

Who Funds the FNIH?

Then there are the donors. The largest donor to the FNIH is none other than Bill Gates. According to the FNIH’s 2020 statutory report,8 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $96,981,262 that year, accounting for 15% of the Foundation’s annual revenue.9

In 2019, the Gates Foundation’s contribution of $49,827,480 accounted for 35% of the annual revenue.10,11,12 As the top donor, it’s not farfetched to assume Gates might have significant leverage over the direction of the foundation and its funds. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Wellcome also donated between $5 million and $10 million each in 2020.13 FNIH programs funded by the Gates Foundation include but are not limited to:

  • Combining Epitope Based Vaccine Design with Informatics-Based Evaluation
  • Comprehensive Cellular Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium
  • Global collaborative for Coordination of Gene Drive Research and Development
  • The Partnership to Accelerate Novel TB Regimens
  • mRNA encoded HIV Env-Gag Virus-like-particle Vaccines

The last program on the list — the creation of novel mRNA-based HIV vaccines — is described14 as a project to “test a new HIV vaccine concept in animals using noninfectious ‘virus-like particles’ encoded by an RNA vaccine with the goal of inducing protective antibody responses.”

The initial request for collaboration came from the NIAID at the end of July 2020. In August 2020, the FNIH Portfolio Oversight Committee approved the project, “contingent upon a commitment of full funding in the amount of $1.45 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”

The Gates Foundation fulfilled that commitment in October 2020. A memorandum of understanding between the FNIH and the NIAID was finalized in early 2021. A sub-award was granted to the University of Montreal (CHUM), and Bioqual was given a service agreement to manage the clinical trial.

Bill Gates also contributes to the FNIH through Gates Ventures,15 a rapidly growing venture capital and investment firm that works side by side with the Gates Foundation’s program teams “to identify investment opportunities.”16 Specifically, Gates Ventures is an organizational donor to the FNIH’s Biomarkers Consortium (BC), a cancer steering committee, alongside a long list of drug companies.

Congress Seeks Greater Transparency

As mentioned earlier, all of this can help explain Fauci’s and Collins’ behavior during the COVID pandemic. Collins is a board member, Fauci got the foundation’s top reward for support in 2020, and money flows into the foundation from drug companies and Gates, all of whom have vested interests in making sure that whatever the NIH does and recommends to the public, it will produce profits for them.

According to its 2020 Statutory Report,17 the FNIH has raised more than $1.2 billion, and as mentioned earlier, most of that money goes right back to the drug industry, without Congressional appropriation or oversight. While the whole thing reeks of conflicts of interest, it may be difficult to get to the bottom of because, as a 501c3, the FNIH is cleverly exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Nonprofits are considered private entities, and therefore not subject to FOIA and other open records laws.18,19 However, the NIH is subject to FOIA since it’s a government agency, and the funds raised go to the NIH. Basically, it’s a system set up to bypass oversight, and the U.S. Congress is responsible for creating this fraud-fraught system.

Congress Created This Fraud-Fraught System

Congress is responsible for the oversight of federal agencies, but in the early 1990s, it created what sure looks like a pay-to-play system. Not only did Congress create the FNIH, they also set up the CDC Foundation,20 which funnels millions of dollars from drug companies and vaccine makers into the CDC.21

This explains the CDC’s highly irrational and harmful COVID recommendations. The fact that the CDC lies about its pharma funding only makes it all the more suspicious. The CDC has long fostered the perception of independence by stating it does not accept funding from special interests.

In disclaimers peppered throughout the CDC’s website22 and in its publications, it says the agency “does not accept commercial support” and has “no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products.” With the information exposed in this article it is obvious that this is a cleverly obfuscated pack of lies — all possible through sheer semantics, as the funds are diverted through the foundation rather than going straight to the CDC.

In 2019, several watchdog groups — including the U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), Public Citizen, Knowledge Ecology International, Liberty Coalition and the Project on Government Oversight — petitioned23 the CDC to stop making these false disclaimers24 because, in reality, the CDC receives millions of dollars each year from commercial interests through its government-chartered foundation, the CDC Foundation, which funnels those contributions to the CDC after deducting a fee.25

On the CDC Foundation’s website, you’ll find a long list26 of “corporate partners” that have provided the CDC with funding over the years. The CDC even accepts money earmarked for specific studies or programs aimed at expanding corporate profits or reducing drug companies’ liability exposure.27

As just one example, in 2018, Collins ended up canceling a $100 million study to assess the effects of moderate alcohol consumption after it was discovered that the NIH had inappropriately solicited money for the study directly from the spirits industry, and had designed the study “to satisfy industry interests.”28 Collins also had to ditch a $400 million study into opioid dependency after an independent panel warned there were potential conflicts of interest.29

In 2018, a congressional spending panel also warned the FNIH and the CDC Foundation that their disclosures of financial donations were inadequate. As reported by Science at the end of June 2018:30

“Congress created the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the CDC Foundation … to raise private funds to support federal biomedical and health research.

It hoped to encourage transparency and prevent potential conflicts of interest by specifying in the law that the foundations had to report ‘the source and amount of all gifts’ they receive, as well as any restrictions on how the donations could be used.

But last week, legislators on the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH and CDC expressed concern that the foundations may not be following those disclosure rules …

A report accompanying a 2019 spending bill moving through Congress reminds the foundations to abide by the PHSA when writing their annual reports … The lawmakers also say it’s not OK to hide the identity of donors who have attached strings to their gift by labeling them as ‘anonymous.’

The language ‘is a marker that we want more transparency,’ says one House appropriations staffer, speaking on background because of committee rules on who can speak to the press. ‘We’d like to see [the foundations] go further, and this language is meant to start a conversation.’”

Among “anonymous” donors to the FNIH in 2016 were the Gates Foundation, despite having given a sizeable $19.1 million grant.31 While the financial statements of these foundations may have improved since 2018, the system itself, which gives private industry the power to influence regulatory agencies through unregulated funding, remains unchanged.

Globalists Aim to Take Over Health Systems Worldwide

The reason for having a BlackRock representative on the FNIH’s board of directors could potentially have something to do with the globalists’ plan to monopolize health systems worldwide — a plan that is taking shape as we speak.

In June 2021, Gerberding, now head of the FNIH, wrote a Time article32 laying out the framework for an international pandemic-surveillance network, which would include threat prediction and preemption as well. While Gerberding did not name the World Health Organization, we now know that’s the organization designated as the top-down ruler, not only of all things related to pandemics but also health in general. I’ll have an entire article detailing this in tomorrow’s newsletter.

It’s important to realize that unless we can somehow prevent the WHO from acquiring this power, it will be able to dictate things like mandatory vaccinations and health passports moving forward, and its dictates would supersede all national and state laws. We simply cannot let this happen.

At the same time, we need to realize just how bought and paid for our U.S. regulatory agencies are, and figure out a way to clean up that mess. There’s been a revolving door between government and private industry for decades, which is how we got here in the first place. Closing that door might be a first step in the right direction, but it’s not going to be enough by itself.

The NIH, CDC and the Food and Drug Administration are all so thoroughly infiltrated by industry, restoring them to their intended functions is no easy task. Disturbingly, the same technocratic powers that are working to give the WHO global power over global health have also infiltrated these U.S. agencies. As a result, they’re unlikely to push back. They’re going to be more than willing to take orders from the WHO.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/15/1/87/htm

Extraction and Fractionation of Bioactives from Dipsacus fullonum L. Leaves and Evaluation of Their Anti-Borrelia Activity

Pharmaceuticals 2022, 15(1), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph15010087
Received: 8 December 2021 / Revised: 10 January 2022 / Accepted: 11 January 2022 / Published: 12 January 2022
Figure 1. Dipsacus fullonum L. harvested from Saaremaa, Estonia, 2017.
Abstract
Lyme disease (LD) is a tick-borne bacterial disease that is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Although acute LD is treated with antibiotics, it can develop into relapsing chronic form caused by latent forms of B. burgdorferi. This leads to the search for phytochemicals against resistant LD. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the activity of Dipsacus fullonum L. leaves extract (DE) and its fractions against stationary phase B. burgdorferi in vitro. DE showed high activity against stationary phase B. burgdorferi (residual viability 19.8 ± 4.7%); however, it exhibited a noticeable cytotoxicity on NIH cells (viability 20.2 ± 5.2%). The iridoid-glycoside fraction showed a remarkable anti-Borrelia effect and reduced cytotoxicity. The iridoid-glycoside fraction was, therefore, further purified and showed to contain two main bioactives—sylvestrosides III and IV, that showed a considerable anti-Borrelia activity being the least toxic to murine fibroblast NIH/3T3 cells. Moreover, the concentration of sylvestrosides was about 15% of DE, endorsing the feasibility of purification of the compounds from D. fullonum L. leaves.
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**Comment**

Dipsacus fullonum L, or wild teasel has been known in the Lyme/MSIDS world for a long, long time.  Many patients swear by it’s anti-inflammatory properties.

Here we learn that the leaves showed anti-borrelia activity in mouse cells – which doesn’t necessarily translate over to humans, but it’s a start.  It also only looked at the stationary phase and borrelia is pleomorphic and likes to mutate to evade treatment and the immune system. Previously, research on the herb stevia was touted by many as a “cure” for Lyme.  It is anything but a cure, although some doctors use it as a “biofilm buster.”

Every patient responds differently to treatment and I know patients who herx on one drop of an herbal tincture; however, I’ve taken a lot of herbs over the years and never herxed or had a noticeable change on nearly any of them, but don’t let that stop you from trying.  We are literally Guinea Pigs, and we have to kiss a lot of frogs to find our Prince!

The exception for me was a potent form of arthemisinin along with Mepron and an intracellular antibiotic for Babesia:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/16/babesia-treatment/  I write about my personal experience at the end of the article, along with the brand of arthemisinin used.  It was extremely potent and we pulsed it due to the heart-attack type herxes it gave me.  I’m happy to report that treating Babesia for a year has left both my husband and I symptom-free.

https://www.lymedisease.org/patient-story-casey-fillian/

Patient story: Lyme disease deserves more than “mediocre attention”

March 8, 2022

By Casey Fillian

Thirty-seven years ago, I went to summer camp in a heavily wooded area of New Jersey. I started coming down with odd symptoms a few weeks later.

I had high fevers, exhaustion, muscle aches, a mysterious rash on my torso, and a knee swollen twice its size.

For months, we went without answers. My mother took me to every type of doctor under the sun–orthopedics, rheumatologists, family physicians, infectious disease, and finally my pediatrician. And that’s where we FIRST heard the words “Lyme disease.”

We were taken immediately to a prominent medical center in Connecticut, to be observed by doctors familiar with this mystery disease, since Lyme wasn’t technically ‘in’ New Jersey at that time.

After a battery of tests and exams, the medical team there confirmed that I was indeed infected with Lyme. Actually, my blood tests showed I was septic.

Recurrences

I would suffer several recurrences of these symptoms over the next three decades. Lyme disease has permanently affected my heart, liver, joints and blood pressure regulation–just to name a few.

It was very difficult as a child to be sick with something that not many people knew about or had even heard of. I spent weeks and weeks in the hospital, feeling scared and alone, though my mother never left my side.

She has been my advocate so many times throughout the years and has never stopped fighting to get me the help I need.

I feel it’s important to share our story and educate people about the seriousness of tick bites, as it literally changed the course of both of our lives forever. My most recent flare up occurred just six short months ago, requiring my fifth round of antibiotics and second PICC line.

I am currently battling septic/inflammatory arthritis and fighting everyday to keep my mobility. I’m praying there are better treatments on the horizon and more recognition for the people suffering. We deserve so much more than the mediocre attention this disease gets.

My heart goes out to all my fellow warriors.

Casey Fillian lives in New Jersey.

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