Lyme disease sufferers looking for more help from Canadian medical system

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Read this people, it's a really touching story. This poor woman has indeed seen the worst of the worst of the medical industry...

Today she is wheelchair-bound, unable to walk, her sight and hearing impaired. She also had her breasts removed from a misdiagnosis of cancer.

Ventimigla has Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is caused by the bacterium borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to people by black-legged ticks that get infected after biting mice or deer that carry the bug.

Hopefully the plea of all those Canadians affected by this disease is heard... those poor people need all the help that can be given to them!

If you want to read the full article (I truly recommend it), just copy the title of this thread and paste in onto your preferred search engine.
 
That really was a touching story. I am so surprised though that people are struggling in Canada to get proper diagnosis. I had always read/understood that the Canadian healthcare system was meant to be very good. I guess there just seems to be more specialist treatment and understanding of Lyme here in the States. I do know though that without some form of health insurance, health care here in the US is very expensive, so it makes me feel for these people even more!
 
Yeah, they have free universal health care in Canada, but it comes with limitations. I think the problem is that they don't have so much experience with Lyme disease over there. I think in my country it would be even harder, but lately there have been some talks and meetings, hopefully things get better and people don't have to travel to the US anymore.
 
That's how it should be everywhere, every single person deserves universal free health care, that's what's taxes should be for.
 
Yeah, they have free universal health care in Canada, but it comes with limitations. I think the problem is that they don't have so much experience with Lyme disease over there. I think in my country it would be even harder, but lately there have been some talks and meetings, hopefully things get better and people don't have to travel to the US anymore.

That's what it seems like. I just really feel for those people that have ended up going broke just trying to treat the disease, or even to simply get a legitimate diagnosis from somewhere. To be battling Lyme is hard enough, but to have all those additional pressures on you financially would be terrible.
 
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