We have some amazing news! It only took us (Sue Faber and Jennifer Kravis) 3 trips to Ottawa, many meetings with MPs and Senators, a few media interviews, plugging a petition that now has 41,289 signatures and almost 11,000 comments, reading hundreds of personal Lyme letters and thousands of Petition comments, and and 6 months of Sue calling and writing Minister Philpott's office requesting a face to face meeting ... to finally be invited to meet Minister Philpott in September! At this meeting, we will be personally delivering the thousands of Lyme Letters and speaking to the suffering and injustice inflicted upon thousands of Canadians coast to coast. This would not have happened without the support of thousands of YOU and other Lyme sufferers and concerned Canadians who signed the Petition, wrote, emailed, cheered us on, and posted comment after comment on Minister Philpott's Facebook page! We need even more signatures on this Petition, please share: http://bit.ly/2lfBuNL #tickinglymebomb And finally, if you haven't already, please send in your personal story about how Lyme has affected your life or the life of someone you know or simply to state your concerns about the management of Lyme in Canada - to lymeletterscanada@gmail.com before September 1. Please also let us know if we have your permission to keep a copy of your letter for the purposes of sharing with the media and other MPs. You can follow our journey on www.lymehope.ca and on our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/lymehopecanada/. Finally, if you are able, please consider making a donation to our GoFundMe campaign to help us pay for our 4th trip to Ottawa and our continued advocacy. An update on the how the funds raised have been spent to date is on the GoFundMe page, found here: https://www.gofundme.com/TickingLymeMoms Thank you for your continued support - none of this would have been possible without all of you. PS: attaching FYI one of the articles about our advocacy efforts from April.