Grievin' On A Lyme Train --- Words by Jeannine Der Bedrosian

Grievin' On A Lyme Train
Words by Jeannine Der Bedrosian (MisTick)
as published in Digest 878, before the OPMC protest
Well my bag was packed with plenty of Flagyl,
Zithromax and Doxy because I'm fragile,
Sunglasses for my light sensitivity,
Got the meds for pain and arthritus,
Is that a taxi horn or just tinnitus?
Took Xanax for my Lyme anxiety -

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Share my Lyme disease fate with me,
     Hold me as my IV Bag does flow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again.
     Doc Ohrens, why must you go?

There were so many times I made the rounds. 
Of every doctor in every town,
They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me,
They said "It's Just Stress, or Multiple Sclerosis,
Fibromyalgia - That's our diagnosis!
It's All in Your Head, or maybe its ADD,"

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Share my Lyme disease fate with me,
     Massage my veins so that the blood will flow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again.
     The last one let me go......

When my arteries began to harden,
I remembered a Tick-Bite in the Garden,
ELISA and Western Blot were POS (+) for me,
"Thirty Days of Antibiotics will be a Breeze,
That's All That's Needed for Lyme Disease,"
Docs told me that were wrong as they could be,

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Share my Lyme disease fate with me,
     Hold me till my PICC-line clog doth flow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again.
     Is Burrascano the next to go?

I finally found a Lyme Literate Doc,
In the middle of treatment - what a shock,
He's suspended by New York O.P.M.C.,
"He's overprescribing, he's overdiagnosed,
We'll lift his license, his clinic is closed,
Charge fraud against this compassionate M.D."

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Share my Lyme disease fate with me,
     Hold me as my symtoms start to grow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again.
     Doc Ohrens, we love you so.........

There's so many after our Lyme Doc Friends,
Insurance companies refuse to spend,
The money for our Meds or our M.D.,
"It's 'Not Lyme Disease,' you're 'Really Not Sick,'
It's just your body playing a trick,"
Said the doctor paid by the Insurance Company

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Share my Lyme disease fate with me,
     Hold me as my Spinal Tap  does flow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again.
     Now they're after Burrascano?

They need to fund a Lyme Cure faster,
Our Lyme disease children are a disaster,
So many affected neuorologically, 
Can't concentrate, they quiver and quake,
With jerks and ticcs their bodies shake,
Their problems make them sad as they can be,

     Kiss them and Smile for me, 
     Share their Lyme Disease Tale with me,
     Hold them as our children's tears do flow,
     Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when they'll have a doc again.
     Doc Jones, please don't go?

We're under attack by A'Stupe Clinicians,
We must involve the Politicians,
Together there's a message we must send,
Persecution of LYme Docs - must cease,
Fund Long-term treatment for Lyme disease,
Until that time this song will have no end……

     Kiss me and smile for me, 
     Work to stop the Conspiracy,
     Help us so the Lyme Disease Truth will flow,
     'Cause I'm a'Grievin' on a Lyme Train,
     Don't know when I'll have a doc again,
     Guess I'll go to Mexico........

        (whisper) Grievin' on a Lyme Train.......
                       Grievin' on a Lyme Train.....
                            Guess they'll give me hope in Mexico.....