Lyme Awareness Rally Organizers & Spirochete Slayers: Jim Berger & Dave Marsh
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Jim
Berger
Hello, my name is Jim Berger. I have been employed as a
Medical Device Engineer at major healthcare companies since 1979, first in
Orange County, California and then in Lake County, Illinois. In my professional
career I have worked on the following products: Cardiac Output Computers, Holter
EKG Monitoring Recorders and Playback Equipment, Ophthalmic Laser Systems, Plasmapheresis
and Plateletpheresis equipment, Medication Delivery Infusion Pump Automated
Test systems, and Renal Peritoneal Dialysis equipment. I have held positions in
Engineering Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality & Reliability
Engineering, Field Service support, and Systems Engineering. Since 1985 in my
spare time, I have also studied different modalities of energy medicine such as
Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Eden Energy Medicine, Intuitive Shiatsu, Native
American shamanism and Hawaiian shamanism.
I had been an amateur runner, cycler and triathlete in
Southern California; however, after moving to Antioch, IL, on the
Illinois/Wisconsin border in the early 1990s, I started having severe pain and
cramps in my joints and temporary partial paralysis of my legs, feet and arms,
hands, cramps in the abdomen and chest, temporary blindness, as well as, numerous
mental issues. In late summer 2007, I had an insect bite that looked like a
brown recluse spider bite that resulted in necrosis of the skin and a hospital
stay of almost a week. Over the next few years I ended up having a couple heart
attacks, severe breathing issues, pancreatitis and then gall bladder (overfilled
with stones) removal. Doctors put off my severe breathing issues as chronic
bronchitis and told me to get rid of my cats. Finally after hearing about lyme
disease, I ended up going to a chiropractor and naturopath, who ran the Igenix
tests for Lyme disease which came back positive, as well as, further tests that
came back with high levels of mycoplasma pneumonia and chlamydia pneumonia.
Everything began to make sense, I had indoor outdoor cats, one who lived 23 and
½ years with me. She was a great huntress, bringing mice, moles, and birds she
killed up to my bedroom at night. It is now obvious that the red blood spots I
would occasionally see on my sheets were from engorged ticks that were crushed by
my body while sleeping. If If had ended up with a bull’s-eye rash where I could
have seen it, I would have probably ignored it not knowing it would indicate Lyme
disease. I did not even know what Lyme disease was at that time. Then, after
learning about it, I found out that tick bites could present a wound, looking
similar to a brown recluse spider bite. Finally, about six months ago, I had a
stroke, resulting in partial blindness and memory loss. I am 64 years old now
and was to be laid off from my engineering job at the end of last year, but was
put onto full disability last October due to the stroke. Since the stroke, it
takes me about four times as long to accomplish any type of mental task.
To digress a bit, over ten years ago I started
researching Rife technology, when my sister-in-law, Kathy, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. That
story can be found on my website at www.bestsolu.com.
After finding out about lyme disease, I read Brian Rosner’s book on Lyme
Disease and Rife Machines. I purchased one and built two Doug Coil Machines
and read what I could about other experimental Rife and Lakhovsky type machines
being used for treatment of different types of pathogen based disease. Over a
three month period of time over two years ago, I used my 1958 vacuum tube
replica Rife Machine and pathogen frequencies from the cpsBioResearch website
at www.dnafrequencies.com, treating
myself for Borellia, Babesia, Bartonella, Mycoplasma and Chlamydia. After so many years of sickness, I started
feeling normal again and decided to stop experimenting on myself until I could
find a way to verify and validate the results. I stopped treating myself and
over the past two years began my studies in biology, microbiology, anatomy
& physiology, darkfield & phase contrast microscopy. However, along
with my normal engineering job, and the return of my lyme and co-infection
symptoms my body and mind broke down resulting in partial blindness and memory
loss.
I have joined the Worldwide Lyme Awareness Rally to stand
up to the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), against their campaign
of misinformation about Lyme disease, and against their position that after a
couple weeks of antibiotics Lyme disease is cured. In Chicago during the
Worldwide Lyme Awareness Rally, May 10 and 11, I would like to raise awareness
of our Lyme community’s plight to get proper treatment by targeting primarily
the Chicago Tribune for supporting the IDSA view and completely ignoring the International
Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS) view that Chronic Lyme Disease does
exist, and that it has reached epidemic levels around the world. We will not be
ignored any longer. Chicago Tribune, at least fairly present both views.
In recognition of Worldwide Lyme Awareness, I have
started a new project to develop low cost medical device(s) to diagnose and assist
in the treatment of lyme disease and its coinfections. It will be an open
source development project with a goal to have a first prototype available by
the end of July this year. Anybody and everybody can be involved. Let’s come
together and share our knowledge and wisdom to help ourselves. As a group let’s
design our own medical devices and microscopy techniques to help prove the
existence of chronic lyme disease. See
the Lyme disease and Rife-Crock machine
blog: http://rifecrock.blogspot.com/
, which I will be starting up soon.
Your friend, Jim
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Dave Marsh
Here are my reasons for being involved with
Lyme awareness / support. I know this story is similar to many other people but
here it is... 13 years ago this upcoming June I went up to Lake Pepin Wisconsin
on another camping / fishing vacation. My family had been going there a couple
times a year since I was a kid. 2 weeks after that trip I developed a paper
plate sized bulls eye rash on the right side of my spine. After that rash my
life changed dramatically. I've always worked outside, and first thing I
noticed was my wrists, knees, and elbows being in constant pain, eventually
having both wrists operated on and having to have my tendons in my elbows
reattached to the bone. Then they told me I now had a bunch of new ailments
that have no history in my family. OK that’s enough, I'll finish up. The
neurological, physical, and mental strain of not being able to have any of the
30 doctors I had seen "including Mayo clinic" give you any definitive
answers is devastating. Once I got to a legitimate LLMD and started the long
road back to where I am today I found this support group with people who had
gone through the same nightmares I'd been through, it felt comforting ! I
decided I wanted to try and help people not have to go through what we had gone
through. I love when people meet us and realize they are not alone. My wish is
that people soon will be able to be diagnosed and treated in a timely and
appropriate fashion. I can't even put to words how important it is to me for
children to get treated properly so that they can run and play like normal
healthy kids.
Your friend, Dave
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