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Julie Bertrand / Oceanside Star November 13, 2014 12:00 AM Qualicum Beach resident Sue Aldous discovered she had Lyme disease through a chance encounter in a Surrey grocery store. Aldous had suffered chronic health problems since 1984. She had headaches, frequent insomnia and digestive issues. Because of her poor health, she lost her job, her…
Hikers attempt to save snowshoe hare with engorged ticks Christine Wood/Glacier Media / Squamish Chief [newspaper] November 5, 2014 01:49 PM The first case of tick paralysis ever recorded in a wild animal was identified on the Sunshine Coast recently with the help of the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Hikers on a trail near Burnett Road…
by GAIL JOHNSON on OCT 29, 2014 JIM WILSON, FOUNDER of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was in an Ottawa hotel room, in lockdown, with his curtains drawn when the Georgia Straight caught up with him. It was October 22, that terrible day of the shootings at Parliament; Wilson had flown from B.C. to…
Robert Mangelsdorf – Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness in her face. Soon, Kitsilano mother Susan Schirk’s toes began cramping up so severely, she couldn’t unclench them. Then the cramping spread to her arms. “I couldn’t hold up a blowdryer,” she says. “I would wash…
Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980 Shane Woodford September 08, 2014 08:24 pm A woman suffering from Lyme disease had to turn to crowd funding to figure out why a BC government effort to treat the disease has gone off the rails. Gwen Barlee says the province opened a special clinic in 2013…
MARK HUME VANCOUVER – The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Sep. 09 2014, 8:00 AM EDT Saying she was frustrated because patients weren’t being adequately diagnosed or treated for Lyme disease, Liz Zubek quit British Columbia’s new Complex Chronic Disease Program (CCDP) in June. Now, Dr. Zubek has teamed up with Lyme disease patients in a crowdfunding project to pay…
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN, VANCOUVER SUN SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 In tickety-tock time Monday morning, a Lyme disease advocate was successful in crowdsourcing enough money to pay the Provincial Health Services Authority fee for documents requested through a Freedom of Information request. Half the $2,160 fee came from Dr. Liz Zubek, a former physician with the Complex Chronic…
Her silence over her controversial departure from BC Women’s Hospital has been deafening. Alas, it didn’t last forever as Dr. Alison Bested, the former medical director of the Complex Chronic Disease Program has sent me a statement she calls a “public response;” it is posted below. Her stipulation is that I publish it in its entirety; I…
Elizabeth May has achieved something of a miracle – the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and the leader of the federal Green party got a private-member’s bill through Parliament with unanimous approval. More important, the bill opens the door to better diagnosis and treatment of a serious disease that many say is a growing threat to…
Facility has 1,400 patients on a waiting list for care By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun A third doctor resigned Wednesday from the year-old, beleaguered Complex Chronic Disease Program at BC Women’s Hospital. Dr. Liz Zubek quit because she believes the clinic is “going backwards instead of forwards in terms of meeting its mandate,”…
[CanLyme note: From freedom of information documents it is clear that the clinic came about as a result of the now famous Schmidt report on Lyme Disease. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation sat on the patient’s advisory panel for over 2 years during the development of the clinic but we withdrew when it was clear…
May 9th, 2014 by Amy Smart, Times Colonist, Victoria, BC The first alarm bell went off for Dr. Ted Cormode when his daughter called from her car saying she was frightened. The Langford woman had numbness in her neck, going up the side of her face, Cormode said. His daughter, 43, has since been diagnosed…
Paul Weyer hasn’t kissed his wife since November 2012. It’s not that Paul doesn’t want to kiss his wife, Tara, it’s simply that he doesn’t want to spread Babesia and the other tick-borne diseases he’s been fighting for the past two years. Weyer was born and grew up in Barrie with his five siblings in…
by Sarah Massah – Peace Arch News posted Apr 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM It was a full house at a South Surrey Lyme disease forum last week. The April 24 event at Semiahmoo House Society was hosted by local Discount Tire owner Louise Roderick – who had spoken to Peace Arch News last summer about…
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation president, Jim Wilson, was invited to Cawston, BC, to present an awareness and information session to resident of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area, at their community hall. For our part at CanLyme even small communities such as Cawston need to have better information given to them considering that many in the area are…
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