A lot of work goes into this website on a daily basis. It is rapidly growing in popularity with thousands of hits to the site each day.

This only proves that at times I can still follow instructions I write to myself and keep the site up.
(Only other Lymies would understand the humor of that statement.

I started this site because no one, none of my friends, none of my family, could understand that what I was (am) going through was not just me. It is a lot of people going through the same thing.

I started searching the Internet and found information on a lot of good discussion groups but that information was not available to the general public.  You had to join the group in order to read the posts.

I found a lot of information and misinformation on websites too. I had learned enough from the discussion groups to be sceptical of some of this information. I had gleaned information from what each person was saying in their postings, not from any direct information. I really learned much more from reading people's personal stories on these discussion groups than from any official Lyme association website like the LDA.

Then I got the idea that there could be a site where people could put up daily logs, journals and diaries about their life with Lyme disease and other people, people with just a passing interest as well as those who are suffering from the disease,  could read them.

A place where the latest news articles about Lyme disease could be passively read by persons who are just curious or just wondering if they could have Lyme or if they should just give up when their doctor tells them that they couldn't have Lyme, that they are just getting old.

For family members it might help them understand that their loved one was not crazy. For people who had not yet realized that they might have Lyme it would help them move toward trying to find qualified help. For the misdiagnosed it could help them stop the wrong treatment and seek an LLMD.

Then I decided that keeping the latest news up on the site would help inform people on the scope of this infection much better than just telling them. Stories about a football player with Lyme, a country music performer with Lyme, stories from Europe and the United Kingdom, stories about famous writers with Lyme all have caused people to give a lot of positive feedback.

There is another reason, in my opinion, to have a place to share information like LymeBlog, so we can see what has worked for others and what doesn't work. As you can see from my blog I'm still fighting. I have now lost everything, my job, my home, my spouse and now my income from my disability insurance. I've even started accepting donations to try to cover the expenses.  Any amount is appreciated from $3.99 a month up.

I would like to thank each of you so much for your support, and if you would, please feel free to submit news articles and start a blog.
Being a Lymie I can use all the help I can get.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to improve the site and thank you again for taking the time to visit LymeBlog and for your help in getting the word out.

Mac McDonald
Managing Editor
LymeBlog

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