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	<title>A Lyme Disease Journal</title>
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		<title>The impact of chronic illness on young kids</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/the-impact-of-chronic-illness-on-young-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us with chronic conditions spend a lot of time wondering how to manage their impact on our own ravaged bodies and spirits. But along the way, it&#8217;s hard to ignore the impact they have on our families. I know that has been a concern with me in my own family. Unlike the extended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=423&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A room full of people who care about Lyme disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I had the privilege of attending the LDA and ILADS sponsored  conferences on Lyme Disease.  I left Pittsburgh worried that I would find the three days of talks I planned to intend incomprehensible, boring, or simply overwhelming. I returned having soaked up hour after hour of information. The material engaged me in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=416&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New hope for Chronic Fatigue patients</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/new-hope-for-chronic-fatigue-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you live in the nether world of questioned diagnosis, you spend a lot of time wondering if perhaps those doctors who say the problem is in your head, your lifestyle, and your diet are right. In my case, I was lucky to have a variable enough illness that I was constantly reminded that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=412&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off antibiotics!</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/off-antibiotics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been over a month since I last wrote in &#8230; I certainly haven&#8217;t forgotten about this blog or having Lyme disease, but as an academic the beginning of the semester always rolls over me in waves leaving little time to step back and reflect. Fall is especially bad because there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=398&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the editor</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/letter-to-the-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our local paper had an update about Lyme disease this week. The impression it left the reader with was that there is &#8220;nothing new here&#8221;, there will be a small number of new cases this year in Allegheny county (20-30 I think the article said) and generally not to worry. Considering that this same paper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=393&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual transmission of Lyme Disease</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/sexual-transmission-of-lyme-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/sexual-transmission-of-lyme-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering on and off for some time whether I need to worry about sexual transmission of Lyme disease. Now I&#8217;ll be honest, although I love my spouse very much, it hasn&#8217;t been that much of an issue in the last year or two. But I&#8217;m starting to feel a little better, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=368&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing talks now available online</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/hearing-talks-now-available-online/</link>
		<comments>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/hearing-talks-now-available-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick update to my previous post: you can now view a video archive of the IDSA hearings online here: http://webcast.you-niversity.com/idsaArchives/
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		<title>Landmark hearing with excellent talks</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/idsa-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a landmark day for the Lyme community: An opportunity to try to sway the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) toward a more generous description of Lyme disease and its treatment. The IDSA guidelines are curretnly used to guide the treatment decisions of many doctors from specialists (especially Infection Disease doctors) to family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=357&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running the Numbers (June/July, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/running-the-numbers-junejuly-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have entered another two month’s worth of numbers into my stats program and analyzed them. I had my best month ever in June, and it is easily visible in the chart included below.  I had many days with only one or two symptoms, and felt much better, than I have since I became ill. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=351&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn in by false hope</title>
		<link>http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/false-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmankoff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gotlyme.wordpress.com/?p=340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hesitant to even write about this experience, because who wants to admit it, but I wasted a lot of time and hope on something that I shouldn&#8217;t have. The reason I am telling you this is that if you are ill you have probably faced the same temptations I do, and maybe we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gotlyme.wordpress.com&blog=2371223&post=340&subd=gotlyme&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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