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Dawn Irons is the editor and founder of the Public Health Alert. She is a graduate of the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas where she received a Bachelors of Science degree in Social Work. Dawn has worked with medically related social issues for over ten years. Dawn is also on the board of directors for the Texas Lyme Disease Association (TXLDA), a non-profit Lyme education and advocacy program. In 1987, Dawn began her long road of deteriorating health issues which remained undiagnosed until 2005, when she was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease. During her long road towards a diagnosis Dawn saw close to 20 different specialists, and racked up misdiagnoses such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FMS), sensory neural hearing loss, sleep apnea, Meniere's disease, vertigo, gait ataxia, encephalopathy, carpel tunnel syndrome, hormonal imbalances, hypothyroidism, severe inflammation of unknown origin, migraine headaches, intracranial hypertension and a whole host of other problems. During her struggle for a correct diagnosis, Dawn lost seven pregnancies in miscarriage. She also had to quit home-schooling her 3 children due to her progressing illness. Dawn was forced to give up some of her favorite activities, including attending a missions training program at Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. It was at the lowest time in her life when Dawn began learning about the hundreds of thousands of other people who were struggling with the same misdiagnosed health crisis that she herself was battling. Unable to work outside the home, Dawn took the only job skills she had left, the ones she learned in Junior and Senior high school journalism classes and set out to start her own advocacy project. Determined to get an information network of news, research and patient/doctor stories to help the Lyme community, Dawn founded Public Health Alert in July 2006. Dawn and her husband Brad, along with their 3 children reside in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Dawn’s entire family has since been diagnosed with Lyme disease. They have never lived in any state but Texas where the doctors still hold to the belief, "We don't have Lyme in Texas." Articles by Dawn Irons:IDSA: Did They Change the Blade in Occam's Razor? Heather Holtry Makes-A-Wish For LD Research Much
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