Spring Quarter: "HYPNOTIZED"- FLEETWOOD MAC

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I wrote this piece last quarter, but I wanted to republish it in the context of Lyme Disease Awareness Month. May is dedicated to educating and improving public awareness and the burden of this widespread and devastating disease. The CDC still does not recognize this illness as existing past 2 weeks treatment of amoxycillin (despite that no study has shown 30 days of antibiotic treatment cures Lyme Disease), but after 5 years of watching this battle, and seeing the lack of support, compassion, and understanding-- after countless ER visits, doctors appointments, specialists, and medicines-- I am here to tell you they are wrong. And the results of being wrong are sickening. Misinformation and under-diagnosis of this epidemic leaves me, at large, without  words. But somehow I found these. This was written out of love.