Lance is the founder and organizer of Morgellons United and has suffered with Morgellons and Lyme disease since 2009. He is a passionate and dedicated patient advocate with a profound understanding of Morgellons disease and the hurdles we all face. His deep personal experience with this perplexing condition and passion for human rights fuels his dedication to helping ensure Morgellons disease is properly recognized, and that affected patients are treated with dignity, respect, and proper care.
He has been a long-term volunteer with the world's largest Morgellons disease foundation, the Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation, is one of the original members of the Managing Morgellons human rights advocacy project, and has volunteered with the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation. In 2021, Lance travelled to CDC Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on a mission to meet with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, and hand-deliver his comprehensive 160-page report validating Morgellons as a true physical disease. He is currently under the care of an infectious disease specialist and is doing his best to set a new precedent and pave the way forward for all Morgellons patients. His unwavering commitment to patient dignity, scientific truth, proper recognition, and government accountability continues to drive the work of Morgellons United.
Lance has also been featured in several media stories, including these articles and interviews with the Toronto Star, Rebel News (video interview/mini-documentary) and the Summerland Review. In addition, he is identified as human test subject "Patient 6" in the peer-reviewed 2015 landmark Morgellons disease scientific study entitled: Exploring the Association between Morgellons disease and Lyme disease: identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in Morgellons disease patients making him one of the most validated Morgellons patients in Canada.
After years of doing everything humanly possible to have Morgellons disease recognized – including presenting scientific evidence, engaging with doctors, researchers, media, politicians, public health authority, accountability mechanisms, and legal strategy – Lance came to recognize that the continued failure by government healthcare authorities to investigate Morgellons disease was not only a medical failure, but also a human rights failure. The repeated pattern of dismissal, silence, and inaction led directly to the founding of Morgellons United. Through years of studying government systems, public health authority accountability mechanisms, and legal strategy, Lance developed Morgellons United as a structured human rights organization with one central purpose: to finally compel government healthcare authorities to properly recognize, investigate, and validate Morgellons Disease for all affected patients.
Outside of advocacy, Lance remains devoted to living the healthiest lifestyle possible while continuing to face the daily reality of ongoing Morgellons and Lyme disease, and ongoing complications from a workplace accident in 2009. As a pet parent, he especially enjoys hiking and connecting with nature in the company of his loyal canine companion, Sika, which helps him maintain balance in his life. Lance has immense gratitude for his doctor, his parents, and his auntie, without whom he could never have made it this far without their immense support, patience and understanding over all the years of struggle.
