Come watch the new documentary LymeLight!

UPDATE ON WORLDWIDE LYME AWARENESS DAY IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN

Join us for the premier of LymeLight, a documentary film based on the story of professional freeskier Angeli VanLaanen living with Lyme Disease.

May 10th we will meet at Baird Place Park in Green Bay on the corner of Webster St. and E. Mason St from 11:00 to 3:00. (1001 Cass St Green Bay, WI 54301).

May 10th and 11th are the Worldwide Lyme Awareness Days.  Over 20 countries and several states are holding events to help raise awareness about Lyme Disease and the trouble patients have with everything from diagnosis to treatment. 

I hope you can stop by during your lunch hour or before picking up the kids from school. The film is only a half hour long so we will have multiple showings.  The park has a lot of shade.  Please bring a blanket or a chair to sit on/in.

Volunteers Needed for Wisconsin Lyme Network

Hi everyone it’s that time of year again many, many Volunteers are needed on Memorial weekend at Celebrate De Pere event May 24, 25, 26, 27th help needed with Friday set up, and most of all on Saturday and Sunday and Monday please sign up as an am or pm workers more workers are needed from 3pm on until close. It’s a lot of fun working together for a good cause.

Proceeds go to Wisconsin Lyme Network

Please help us support Wisconsin Lyme and meet new friends along the way. Please email me with the dates you can help at cvanveghel1028@yahoo.com or sign up on the sheet provided. Fill out form here.

Pray we have good weather this year on all dates above with great attendance, along with many giving of their time of volunteers.

Thank you,

Cindy Van Veghel and Jennifer Christie

Lyme Disease Seminar in New Brighton

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. A seminar on Lyme disease will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 4, in New Brighton. “21st Century Hope for Surviving and Thriving with Lyme Disease: A Medical Mystery” is presented by Minnesota Wellness Educators and will feature a group of Minnesota Lyme practitioners.

All aspects dealing with the disease will be addressed, including diagnosis, reliability of testing, why it affects the central nervous system (CNS) and the difference between Lyme disease, fatigue and depression. Ways to prevent Lyme disease also will be addressed.

The following guest speakers are all Lyme disease thrivers: Tom Grier, a microbiologist from Duluth; Paula Quinlan, certified natural health practitioner; naturopath Kelly Halderman, M.D.; and Diana Beran, Lyme-disease-literate licensed psychologist. Also scheduled to speak are chiropractor Morgan Binnie and nurse Lynn M. Wilson, who have worked with Lyme disease clients.

Cost: $50 before May 3; $70 at the door. Location: Meadowood Shores Apartment Meeting Room, 2100 Silver Lake Rd., New Brighton. For more information, call Lynn Wilson at 651-765-9176 or email MNWellnessEducators@comcast.net. To register, visit MNWellnessEducators4.eventbrite.com.

Wisconsin Lyme Network will be at the Green Living Festival

The Wisconsin Lyme Network will have a informational Lyme booth at the Green Living Festival at the Milwaukee Domes on April 27th, 2013. 10am - 4pm.

The booth is situated right next to the Audubon Society booth.

http://county.milwaukee.gov/FloralShowampEventSc10360/GreenLiving.htm

New Support Group for everyone from Oconto to Oshkosh

We are starting up a new Lyme support group that will include everyone from Oshkosh to Oconto. 

Our first gathering will be Sat. April 13th from 11:30 to 1:00 at the De Pere Public Library.  It will be an informal meet and greet.  Our hope is you will find people to connect with if you have questions or needs between formal meetings.
Kress Family Branch Library
333 N. Broadway
De Pere, WI 54115
http://www.depere.com/local/library/

Our next gathering is on May 10.  We will meet at Baird Place Park in Green Bay on the corner of Webster St. and E. Mason St from 11:00 to 3:00.  (1001 Cass St Green Bay, WI 54301).
May 10th and May 11th are the Worldwide Lyme Awareness days.  Over 20 countries and several states are holding events to help raise awareness.  The state of Wisconsin was not planning anything so I thought we could just sit in the park, across the street from Bellin Hospital, and let everyone know we care.  

I hope you can stop by during your lunch hour or before picking up the kids from school.  This park has a lot of shade and I encourage you to bring a blanket or a chair to sit in.  The “Under Our Skin” filmmakers will be compiling short movie clips and still photos for a new film he will be producing so be sure to bring your camera.  I have a friend who will bring a go pro video camera to get shot of us in the park and to do some shots of Lambeau Field because they want to know where we are from.  What better way to say we are here than by showing a shot of the stadium!

I hope to see you all in April at the De Pere Library!

Great short video of how well Permethrin works to prevent tick bites

All ticks crawl up after latching on. If you're lucky, they might crawl up the outside of your clothing. Tiny nymph-stage deer ticks loaded with pathogens most commonly latch on to your shoes -- and they crawl up -- UNDER your clothes. Tucking pants into socks is a classic, "unfashionable", strategy for keeping ticks from crawling up under your clothes. An easy and reliable way to prevent tick bites every day is simply to wear tick repellent clothing. It makes tick bite protection as easy as getting dressed in the morning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqOizdo1_Q0

IGENEX accepts Medicare Part B

New from IGENEX for Lyme testing: Igenex now accepts Medicare Part B for some tests. Bartonella Fish and Babesiosis Fish have a copay of $39.60 each. CD57 is not covered. There is a limit of how many test are covered at one time but test 188 and 189 are covered.