Increasing your knowledge about ticks and tick encounters will make you better prepared to protect yourself and others.
Tick Borne Disease. It's Preventable... So DON'T Let It Happen To YOU!
Have you or someone you know had a horrible experience with tick-borne disease?
We've launched StandUpAgainstLyme.org, a brand new URI Almuni Affinity Chapter! Our goal is to allow URI Alumni to stand up and be counted against the spread of tick-borne disease. We strongly urge you to visit the new site and submit your story.
How many URI alums have had Lyme disease? Can we join together to help get some relief? Will our collective voices, when bundled with those of thousands of other victims, prompt political action finally leading to solutions to the tick problem? We hope you'll accept this invitation -- to STAND UP and be COUNTED -- as one who has been impacted by ticks and the diseases they carry.
Not URI Alumni? We'd still like to hear from you with any questions you may have or if you're willing to support this cause! If you're not a URI Alumni, this is a brand new initiative and we're still exploring how to best involve people not affiliated with the university.
Patient Profiles
Do you know someone whose life has been drastically changed by tick-borne disease? We'd like to hear about it.
Harvey C. Perry II
He was so miserable he told his doctors he would not take any more medicines orally. “I said I didn’t care if I died. I hit a wall.”
Buck Roy Benoist
"He always checked himself and wore white socks," in order to spot any ticks. "I checked him too," she adds. "He would go out in the yard and get tired from nothing,"
Rudi Hempe
"I stood there in the corridor holding my magnetic employee card and suddenly I didn't know where I was."
Bill Thornton
"I was so sick, I asked God to take me."
Kate Moran
Her knee swelled up, she had some memory problems, "I just wasn't myself."
Brian Follett
"One night I realized I could not see my dinner on a plate so well. It was like hitting a brick wall. It all came very fast, like a storm."
