Teens with Lyme

April 16, 2010

There are still a few spots left in the special workshop for teens with

Lyme at the CALDA Lyme conference in San Ramon, CA, April 24.

Details here:

October 5, 2010

Good luck with your book Alysha. That is a great endeavor your taking

on and it sounds like a great layout too.

Suzanne

On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:29 PM, alyshataliana wrote:

> My names Alysha I was diagnosed with Lyme in June of 2010, I am only

> 15 years old. I love to read and write, so my mom gave me this idea

> to write a book on Lyme. So I decided to take it one step further,

> how about it is Lyme from a teenagers point of view. The book would

> be split into 2 parts, the first its going to be all about Lyme and

> the second part are about the different teenagers that have been

> affected by Lyme. If there are any of you out there who have stories

> about teenagers with Lyme, I would greatly appreciate it if you

> would send it to me because this book shows Lyme not from an adults

> point of view but of a teenagers, and our struggle with Lyme. Being

> diagnosed with Lyme as a teenager is a very hard thing to go

> through. You miss out on so much of your teenage years before you

> have to go out into the real world. Unable to go out with friends

> because your stuck in bed, not being able to go to school dances or

> functions, missing school for days on end, and unable to be a

> teenager and start discovering who you are. I hope that with this

> book that I can educate people that its not just adults who get Lyme

> but teenagers as well, and we go through it differently than adults

> do. So please if you don't mind your story being published and

> shared if it is published(there is a chance it might not though),

> please send me your story at alyshataliana@.... Thank you.

> P.S I would also like to extend this invitation to any children or

> tweens with Lyme as with further thought I would like to include a

> section about kids with Lyme.

>

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