I, Sherrie Porter, pledge to partner with my doctor who specializes in integrative medicine - a Wellness Doctor - to find a cure for my late stage Lyme Disease that can be mainstreamed and accepted in the medical community.  I pledge that if mainstream medicine refuses to embrace a cure, that I will fight tooth and nail the forces that be that stand in the way of our constitutional and fundamental right to health, even if those that stand in opposition are elected officials and government agencies.  I pledge to help educate the masses until they elect officials with integrity and put in place agencies that put the best interests of the people FIRST, not just for Lyme patients but the health of my fellow countrymen, PERIOD.  I pledge to oppose “pharmco” if greed is proven to be holding back cures in favor of maintaining levels of illness to increase profits, and to reveal that greed at every opportunity.  I may not have much energy, but when I do, I pledge to be a force to be reckoned with!

-Sherrie Porter 

to bring awareness of Lyme disease and it’s co-infections to the attention of the South Africa, Department of Health and to get them to acknowledge that Lyme disease DOES exist in South Africa, contrary to their beliefs.

-Pam Thomson, Johannesburg 

To find the reason for this illness, to turn it around to a blessing,  I want to help others in this fight and to encourage and love others thru my struggle if it can help one person I will feel blessed.  I am going to try and be a positive exammple in the tough fight and to advocate as much as I can thru education to the public and help my fellow lyme friends thru their difficult times as they help me thru mine.  I will not harm myself in anyway as this illness will not consume my life it only will hinder it.  May we all keep the faith and encourage, love and support each other. 

lynn t garcia 

I pledge to be here for anyone who needs to talk, rant, cry, or just a cyberspace hug. You are all always in my heart and prayers and I’m here for you!

-Helen Raser 

that it does matter, it will matter to friends, family, neighbors, community, online- and telephone-friends and community, if I am alive or not. And that the same is true for all of us.

I pledge that even if it seems I have lost, will lose, am losing, will continue to lose everything or everyone that matters to me, that it is not really so. That there will always be people who love me, and that I have something valuable to offer those I love, no matter how useless I may feel.

And even though I’ve been abandoned by some I thought were my family, who would stay with me for our natural lives, that there are new people to meet and to love, that I can go on without them.

I pledge to remind others who feel suicidal that it won’t last, and that I’ve been there, too, and that YES, it does matter to me and to others that they are alive. That we DO CARE if they live or die. That we are NOT better off with them dead.

And I pledge to remember this, too, if the bugs ever eat my brain again to the point where I lose myself, and to tell others I feel this way and ask for their reassurance that my life does matter.

-Sharon Wachsler 

I pledge that when i wake in the morning.. maybe i won’t always have a smile on my face but will laugh periodically during the day..i pledge to tell everyone i meet about this horrid disease.. i pledge i will help everyone of my lyme family when they need help// no matter the time of day or night.. i will always remember “this too shall pass away” and if it doesn’t i will be strong and never ever give up…..

- Karen Rodell Powell 

to be someone you can grieve with, for the losses that can never be redeemed, the lost time or lost pleasures or lost friendships or lost trust in life, even if and when you heal.  and i pledge to hold out hope for that healing.  and to hold out the possibility that our lives can be remade with a deeper vision and understanding from this pain we go through.  

-Ben Ross

I, Allison Caruana, hereby promise to serve the Lyme communities by bringing to light the injustices we deal with on a daily basic. I promises to educate as many in my town and in my state. I promise to push lawmakers to to protect the rights of the doctors who treat us, and the patients who are in need of treatment. I will not stop until my last breath on this earth. This is my promise to my Lyme friends, and to those with Lyme I have yet to come to know. May God bless and honor our prayers for justice and health on 2011 and the many years to come.
Much love,
Allison Caruana
Orlando, Florida

Shari BlanchardI
pledge to wake up each morning believing I/we can and are getting 
‘better’ each day. I will help keep the hope alive by remembering even 
in my darkest moments that this too shall pass. 
I pledge to pay if 
forward in whatever way I can, whenever I can. I will use each experience in
life to learn and evolve to be the b…est
person I can be. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’- just case and effect:D
Sending my heartfelt love to everyone trying to truly make each day a 
little brighter.We are what we focus on- so it is a challenging task
when having an illness for so long, to stay focused on the things that 
work!!

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• • Shari Blanchard I used to keep a journal more often during the peak of my acute Lyme infection- before being correctly diagnosed. I noticed the other day while reading it over, that I would try to write about the desperation and bewilderment over being obviously ill (and yet not understanding what it was)-. but would always bring it back to affirmations of hope within a paragraph or two.
    Like I didn’t want to write anything too negative yet wanted to get the message written down that something outside of the medical’s understanding was happening to me:POctober 19 at 3:49pm · Like ·  1 person

I make the pledge to never give up, keep believing there will be a cure or miracle one day very soon! To try my hardest to be there when someone is going through a bad day with this horrific disease and to keep praying for them which is all I can do sometimes . Hope, Hope, Hope! Never ever give up!

-from Lori Schutte on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149380631771970

Tough times never last, but tough people do! —Robert Schuller

- from Susan Wick Braswell on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149380631771970

Things will happen in your life that you can’t stop, but that’s no reason to shut out the world. There’s a purpose for the good and for the bad.” - Crazy Pete

Love yourself equally on your good and days of despair. Repeat, repeat if necessary. ♥

First 911 call today in 2 years of being sick and the paramedic took me to the ER. Tremors so bad with heart palpitations. Checked out okay but still experiencing severe herxing. I will get through this because I always remember my good days. Peace. Love. ♥

-from Susan Wick Braswell on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149380631771970

okay. i pledge to hold on even when i feel like i can’t manage one more second of this. i pledge to ask for help when my rope has frayed to a single thread and i can’t find anything else to hold onto. i pledge to always be a source of love and comfort for everyone with lyme, to hold on with you and because of you. i pledge to fight for you, for my mother, for my dear friend/angel libby (who would kick my ass on the other side if i took my own life), for lindsay kinneberg and everyone with lyme who just couldn’t hold on any longer. i pledge to stay.

if anyone ever needs someone to talk to, i’m here. if you’re desperate, please don’t keep it to yourself. don’t hesitate to reach out. i know what it feels like. we all do. we gotta hold each other up, hold each other here.

-from Heather Askeland on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149380631771970

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• • Julie Tillotson Antenucci Thank you, Heather. I am so near the end of my rope and reading your post gave me a boost!November 22 at 12:07pm · Like
    
    

I make the pledge to keep hoping even when all seems consumed in hopelessness. To support the sufferers of lyme around me. And, to not let this illness stop me from succeeeding. I pledge to just hold on not just for me, but my family, the friends that have supported me, and the new Lyme friends I’m making. Living is the hard part, but we are strong enough to make it! ♥

-from Taylor Rae Montena on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149380631771970