Creating a Foundation?

I'm a teacher in a small community in Colorado and my school's leadership class wants to help off-set the costs of our recent visit to Columbia University where we met with a team of doctors to help my husband with treatment. This fund is also to help with future medications/treatment he may need.

The students are hosting a benefit dinner/white elephant fundraiser. Ultimately, I will create a Lyme Foundation to benefit people in South Routt County who have Lyme disease, instead of just helping ourselves (we both have families who are willing to help how they can financially). During the summer, I will be learning how to create and maintain a Foundation!

I have compiled facts about Lyme to raise awareness and bought tick removers to display. I have also amassed what we have learned through research and through our experiences with doctors.

What I want to also include are facts that you know and cartoons that are accessible to print. I have visited the fb pages, but these are difficult to print due to size. Any help with information/advice of what to display/printable cartoons are welcome.

This benefit is on May 14th and ultimately, we want to help others through awareness or diagnosis. I just learned that May is also Lyme Awareness Month and want to do as much as possible. Thank you, lara

Awesome! Kudos to you for doing this! I want to do something as well when I am better, What exactly are you looking for - just printable lyme cartoons? what type of info? I would be glad to help!!

No need to apologize. I just wanted to give my personal thoughts in case you don't get what you are looking for on this site. I hope I am wrong and you get lots of good stuff to use.

It might be helpful if you list what facts you currently have. That way if someone wants to and can help they won't be giving you the same info. Just a thought.

Good luck!

So far,

1. Lyme is a bacterial infection that produces spirochetes that bore into the body's system
2. Even when spirochetes are dead, they still emit Lyme symptoms
3. Lyme is often misdiagnosed as MS, Lupus, RA, ALS, Epstein Barr, Fibromyalgia
4. varying degrees of symptoms
5. Most people infected don't present with bulls-eye rash
6. special devices or a doctor's visit is necessary to remove the tick properly
7. There are areas of high infection, but Lyme is everywhere
8. on-going studies of transmission

Anything you can add will be helpful. Thanks and healing to all!

thewitness said...

6. special devices or a doctor's visit is necessary to remove the tick properly

This is not correct. We have to be able to remove the ticks ourselves, or risk greater rates of transmission of tick-borne infections. The longer the ticks are attached, the greater the risk of infection. Here is a video of how to pull a tick that has attached:
youtu.be/0wotB38WrRY

Then if the person will send the tick in for testing, they will know if they need to watch for symptoms or not:
www.igenex.com/files/ticktest.pdf

If the person starts having symptoms ('fluish' feelings, pain, fatigue) when no one else is ill, it's incredibly important that they find a Lyme Literate Medical Practitioner that has had training from ILADS - not IDSA!!


You should also add to #1 - Lyme is a complex bacterial infection.....

The bacteria that causes Lyme disease is incredibly complex!! It can actually hide from our immune system. It changes it's outer surface proteins, can shed it's outer surface membrane and can hide out in biofilms until 'the coast is clear'.

#2 isn't exactly right either. The bacteria that are dead are transported out of the body via detoxing pathways. It's actually the dying bacteria that release toxins that drive the symptoms of Lyme disease.