Elena Delle Donne—An open letter about my health

[Jaybee00]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/sport/elena-delle-donne-wnba-opt-out-denied-spt-intl/index.html


Has “Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome”. WNBA won’t let her opt out of playing.

[[What is the elite consensus on Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome— this is ME/CFS, no?]]

 

[Jaybee00]

Well if she has had “this” for 10 years and still won 2 MVPs and been a 6X All-Star, that is pretty remarkable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne

 

[Mithriel]

Long term Lyme disease is not ME. It is caused by a bacteria so it is not a post viral syndrome. It can be called CFS because of the fatigue involved and a treatment that relieves fatigue may be useful in both diseases but I think confusion of the 2 is caused by the invention of CFS.

It is possible to have both of course.