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Lyme Disease Awareness 2015 ~ Five Things You Can Do
Lyme Disease is a complicated disease surrounded by complicated issues, but you can use these options to help patients and to gain and share awareness, including the Lyme Disease Challenge, March 1st.
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Better Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease, Part 2: Assessing Credibility
Carefully evaluate what you read about Lyme disease to protect your health and your family and to help fight this disease. Awareness of areas of major debate can help filter information.
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Initial Thoughts on My Neanderthal DNA
My tongue-in-cheek initial thoughts on having an uncommonly high percentage of Neanderthal DNA (98th Percentile), per genetic testing, which is apparently a badge of honor among outdoorsy bloggers....
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Mobile Sites Too Horrible To Use
Two mobile sites in particular lately have been horrible enough to angrily abandon my hard-earned, already invested in, promised content or photo pay-off. Horrible enough for a mixed-tense rant!
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Better Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease, Part 1: Introduction to Dangerous Misinformation
Doctors miss 90% of Lyme disease cases (>270,000 per year). Recognizing common myths and areas of disagreement can help patients avoid misinformation, misdiagnosis, and delayed or inadequate care.
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Turtle Travel Medicine: Oahu Sea Turtle Serendipity
During my first year of chronic illness, I felt I had to find a way to see a sea turtle. Through some amazingly quirky twists of fate, my kids and I made it to Hawaii and saw our first turtles.
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Lyme Disease Activism ~ Why Patients Are Protesting
Suffering patients are putting "boots on the ground," asking IDSA and the CDC to revise inadequate diagnostic and treatment guidelines. Current science points to better testing, diagnosis, and care.
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Consequences of Long Term Lyme Disease Infection
A growing majority of Lyme patients are misdiagnosed or not effectively treated, which greatly increases the personal costs and long term consequences of this under-recognized epidemic.
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Writers Donate Your Words Each September for Mesothelioma Awareness Day
Help observe Annual Mesothelioma Awareness Day by donating a blog post and your writing skill and creativity to help spread awareness and save lives. Example links and prompts shared from year 10.
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Why Are Lyme Disease Patients Waiting Years for Treatment?
We're sick, we're mad, we're tired, and most of us never would have gotten this sick without inadequate testing and treatment protocols that are delaying treatment worldwide.
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Benefits of Sexy-Strong Female Role Models
Shaming strong role models for showing their sexy side can send mixed messages to girls. Sexiness is an acceptable role model trait.
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Crazy Frugal Car Story: Saving Big with a Hail Damaged Car
Could you sacrifice aesthetics for a reliable replacement vehicle at a well-below-trade-in price? Adjusting to a single income lifestyle as a family of four is requiring some creative economizing.
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Travel Mishaps Part 3: Less Mishaps, More (Sea Turtle) Serendipity
Another trip to Oahu and another valued possession donated to the Pacific Ocean--in exactly the same spot, via exactly the same wave that ruined my cell phone in Part 2. Sad, but once again worth it.
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Adventures With Ducklings, Part 2: Backyard Lessons Learned
We continued our backyard duck adventures, adding more duckling the past two springs and trying out a new breed (Welsh Harlequins). A few more lessons learned in duck keeping.
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Adventures With Ducklings, Part 1: The Hazards of Cute
They're a little loud and a lot messy, but ducks earn their keep in eggs and personality and duckling cuteness is irresistible. Definitely worth the effort, as long as you know what you’re in for.
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Travel Mishaps Part 2: Salt Water,Cell Phones, and Seat Turtles
Anything can happen on the road--or on the beach, as the case may be. There's usually a silver lining to a trave mishap, if you look hard enough, but travelers should certainly be ready for anything.
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Travel Mishaps Part 1: Life Lessons From Six Days Stranded at LAX
Most of our standby travels have been wonderful, but this is the worst of our early-on misadventures. It was costly and traumatic, but also blessed us with some pretty amazing moments.
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Starting a Novice Moss, Rock, or Fairy Garden
Moss is easy to transplant and you can grow your own with a blender, a handful of moss, yogurt or beer, and sugar. A moss garden is a cathartic and creative way to fill an empty corner of your yard.
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Would You Like Some Empathy With That? How Hype-Busting Food Intolarences Helps and Hurts the Chronically Ill
A young barista whose doctor suspected dairy intolerance asked me, "But what kind of life would there be without cheese?" My answer, "no kind of life at all," has luckily evolved a little over time.
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Planning Tips for Navigating Waikiki With Adaptions for Kids, Time, or Health
You can capture plenty of Waikiki magic during your Oahu vacation with a little pre-orienting and vacation planning (with or without a rental car or a large vacation budget).
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Ecologists' Burden: Maintaining Wonder in a Conservation Profession
Passion is essential to effectively conserving natural resources. But passion in the absence of wonder is less than what's needed to sustain the professional practitioners of this craft.
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Cute Chiroptera: Six Compelling Reasons to Love and Conserve Bats
Modern and historical depictions of bats do not inspire adoration. But a closer look will change your mind. They protect our food and economy and are a whole lot cuter (and cleaner) than you think.