The Editor,

I would like to thank you very much for the great story you published. I found it to be very accurate and am thankful that the truth is getting out there more and more.

I have had Lyme disease for 34 years. I was diagnoised finally four years ago by the very doctor in your story. We traveled to Hope B.C. from Alberta, very sad and frustrated that apparently there is only one doctor willing and educated enough to deal with Lyme disease in B.C.

My own doctor got very mad at me for even suggesting it was Lyme disease as that is very serious.

He wanted to see proof before he would believe me. It's that attitude that has so many of us living in agony with no answers.

I was suffering 61 of the 75 symptoms and I was at my doctor for all of them. He had no idea. The tick was under my skin when I was 16. I am now 50. I think our doctors can do better than that.

Now they think I would only need 10 days of medication after having three co-infections that have had 30 years to grow unchecked in my poor body.

Of course it will take years of meds to cure me, even I can figure that out and I only have Grade 12.

I have also had to become an expert on Lyme disease as we have nobody to help us in our own province and soon none in our country.

I am so happy you are doing three parts to this story, it can not be covered in a couple of minutes and is not being properly handled in our medical system.

I am on meds and recovering. How long that may take is anybody's guess.

It's people like you that give me hope that my doctor now won't be shut down and I will be allowed to get better with the treatment I require.

I thank you again for a great job and a wonderful service to your fellow human beings that you are giving hope to for change in our system.

God knows we need it!

Lynn Scheuerman

Alberta