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THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2005 Lyme Disease is not acknowledged Following is a letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty filed with The New Tanner for publication. Dear Mr McGuinty I have recently typed a lot of letters to several different groups re- guarding an urgent health issue we have here in Ontario. It is not just in Ontario but it is also a worldwide problem. The problem I am speaking of is Lyme disease. It is a disease that is spread around by tick bites. This is a very disabling disease very similar in symptoms to MS and Fibromyalgia along with many more very common disease names. The reason for this letter is that I have Lyme Disease and I had an extremely hard time getting diagnosed, since our healthcare system will not acknowledge it even exists here. It has cost me years of my life fight- ing for a proper diagnosis, not to mention the amount of nonclaimable monies that I have spent. Because the screening test available here in Canada has such a high false negative rate, two months ago it cost me $600 of my own money to get my blood samples shipped to the USA to get the proper testing done. That was good news for me because with their testing and my doctor's clinical diagnosis I am now being treated for Lyme disease. This process is very wrong and to the point of being ridiculously wrong. Just what do we pay our taxes for anyway? They * are certainly not going into our medical system. _ I am not blaming our doctors in this however; it is not really their fault. It is because they are not being told from our people in higher places who are supposed to give them this information. People like the ministers of health. ' I am writing to you personally today because I have had very little response from anybody else. It seerns no one is acknowledging my letters and I know for sure that I am not the only one writing them. So what do I do next if you do not respond? - not sure, but I now have to get the rest of my Immediate family. tested at $600 apiece, plus the inevitable follow up tests or medication. How does one do that on our already overstreched budgets? The really odd part of this is that Lyme disease is very treatable even curable, especially if it is caught in its early stages. There are other diseases that are being misdiagnosed in large numbers, diseases like MS, Lupus, ALS, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a whole lot of others. It is very possible from all the research that has been done by health professionals from around the world that in a lot of cases the people who have been told they have these conditions are being misdiagnosed; they should have been diagnosed with Lyme Disease in the first place. Iam pleading with someone to take a serious look at this issue. It is not some specialty group looking for a handout - it is our own citizens that are getting very sick and finding that there is no light at the of the tunnel. Please help those that are suffering needlessly. Keith Poullos, RR#I1 Limehouse ON Rotary Club appreciates New Tanner's coverage To the editor, On behalf of the Acton Rotary Club I would like to. thank you for the excellent coverage of our recent Gala Dinner and Auction in last weeks' New Tanner. In this Centennial Year of Rotary, one of our goals is to inform the citizens. of Acton of our club's activities and projects. You have been most helpful by publishing two columns written by Rotarian Mac Sprowl concerning the history of Rotary and last week's full page coloured pictures. BILLY GOATS GRUFF: The Junior Kindergarten class at Robert Little School had a visit from a mother goat and her two kid goats last Friday morning to coincide with the story the "Three Billy Goats Gruff," which the class is currently reading. The students had a chance to feed and pet the goats which were brought to the school by local hobby farm owner Richard Stanley. --Danielle McIsaac photo. Slurred words are for Scots Recently this fuzzy checked scribbler has been finding it more difficult to understand people who tend to slur words and talk the pro- verbial "mile a minute." I've caught myself doing the same thing so I suspect it's a trait that affects the very young (teens and 20's) and some of us older bumpkins, who get tired in the middle of a sentence and leave off word endings. It got to the point on one instance where I had my ears checked to see if I was getting hard of hearing. Nope, the examiner said, for a guy your age it's not too bad -- but come back in a year. Well, a year has elapsed, and maybe it is tinie to review whether it's me or them who has a problem. I suspect it may be "them" after read- ing a 1949 article which appeared in The New Yorker. It referred to slurred words as "Slurvian". Here are a few examples of 'Slur- vian' which we may encounter in day-to-day conversations: Bar. To take temporarily: "May I bar your eraser?" Dense. A toothy expert: "I have a dense appointment today." Forced. A large cluster of trees. "Only you can prevent forced fires." Formally. Earlier: "Today she's Coles' Slaw with Hartley Coles a millionaire investor, but formally she tried to make a living as an English teacher." Granite. Conceded: "Too many people take the good life for gran- ie Intensive. An idiom. As in: "For all intensive purposes." Lays. The opposite of gemmen: "Lays and gemmen, I now present our speaker." Less. Contraction: "Less get started." Lining. Electrical flash of light: "Thunder and lining." Mere. A reflecting glass: "Mere, mere on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" Mill. Between the beginning and the end: "A table stood in the mill of the room." Mince. Units lasting sixty seconds: "I'll be back in a few mince." Neck store. Adjacent: "I'm in love with the girl neck store." Nigh. Opposite of day: "She woke screaming in the mill of the nigh." Pain. Giving money: "I'm tired of pain these high prices." Pal. To propel a craft of water: "It's your turn to pal the canoe." Paramour. A modern grass-cutting instrument: "I mowed the lawn with my new paramour." Pitcher. An image or represen- tation: "As soon as we get the pitcher framed, we'll hang it above the sofa." Torment. A competition: "Mabel and I have entered the bridge tor- ment." Whore. Inspiring terror. "Whore films always scare the pants off me." Win. Movements of air: "He was awaked in the mill of the nigh by flashes of lining and gusts of win." And how about winner? Oppo- site of summer. "It's been a cold, wet winner." Some of us may indeed wince when the English language is abused but I suggest we should all check our own syntax before we point the finger at others. We meet people who 'hafta', 'oughta', or are 'gonna do somethin', or who 'shoulda', 'woulda', or coulda' done it. If we monitor our own speech we may find we're speaking Slurvian, too. TMusT Be Good For SOMETHING! IT MAY BE THAT Your SOLE PURPOSE IN LIFE IS SIMPLY Td SERVE ASA WARNING Toa OTHERS. 2005 ; : 3 We look forward to continued support as further details of our Centennial Project, Music Centre in Prospect Park, are realized. 2 & Yours truly, Herb Dodds, President Acton Rotary. 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