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Niagara, ON: ‘I want people to know about Lyme disease’

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Campers stand at the edge of the water at sunset watching the stars come out, with the CanLyme logo floating in the foreground.

Smithville woman went three years before diagnosis

Grimsby Lincoln News by Amanda Moore,

May 13th, 2015

SMITHVILLE — Shortly after giving birth to her third child, Roze Ravensbergen’s body collapsed.

Instead of walking through her front door with her brand new son Tyson, Ravensbergen arrived home in a wheelchair. She was unable to walk, experienced extreme fatigue and her muscles were “wobbly and shaky”. Her symptoms had her, and doctors, stumped.

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