Re: propaganda & Math!

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Pepi,

You are a very colorful person, your personality shines right through your post.

I have a few friends from Texas that I've worked with (Bell-Boeing) and whenever

I read your messages I try to hear your accent, based on theirs. Which I love! I

like your calculations, but I can make it a little simpler for us non-math

brains. I read in several different articles and I think most recently in " Every

Thing You Need to Know About Lyme " , or maybe Lang's Book, " Coping With Lyme

Disease " , that about 1/3 of all symptomatic infected Lyme people go on to

develop Chronic Lyme, and usually that is due to either misdiagnosis and/or not

getting a rash or remembering a tick. That is the category I fall into. It is

strange that some people can test positive for Bb, but develop no symptoms,

guess it all depends on our immune system and whatever we are predisposed to

from birth, you know, certain traits we inherit from our parents and ancestors.

Hope you got some sleep. Take care. Vicki, Md

Hi Ya'll, dont get mad at me for saying this. After researching and thinking

about our LD problems I believe that Chronic Lyme IS rare. I DO have chronic

Lyme, however think of it this way. I will break this down into hypothetical

percentages (forgive my lyme brain so the calculations might not be consistent!)

10% of people who go into woods get bitten by ticks. 5% of them get a rash. 50%

of them have onset of malaise and flu like symptoms. 50% of bitten w/o rash also

get malaise and flu like symptoms. 50% of each group never have another problem.

30% have periodic problems. 10% get DX right away and have few problems 10% go

chronic and end up wreaks like us! See it all comes together when you look at

it like this. Just because you get bitten doesnt mean you will even get LD.

well I have confused myself so I am going to get off for now. Bye! Pepi