A group of Ontario women, including RN Sue Faber, have shared their experiences with Lyme disease in hopes they will raise awareness that women who have the disease may pass it on to their unborn children. Faber, a mother of three daughters, was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2016, after more than 15 years of symptoms such as memory problems, coughing, migratory pain and profound fatigue. After her diagnosis, Faber began to wonder if her children also had the disease since they too struggled with health issues. “(My daughter Andrea) had cyclical fevers, failure to thrive, and rashes (that) would come and go,” she says. Once her daughter began antibiotics, the treatment for Lyme disease, her health improved. “It was like night and day,” Faber says. Subsequent testing revealed all three of her daughters had been exposed to the disease despite never being bitten by a tick, she says. Faber, along with other mothers, has launched a study to analyze the mother-to-child link. Read more about Faber’s ongoing advocacy in the May/June 2018 issue of RNJ.  (CTV News, Jan. 20)