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Current status: Deciding if I should just keep going to Mexico for high dose antibiotics, or allow myself to fall horribly ill here in Victoria, and try and force local doctors to deal with me…

At this point I have no headaches, numbness, dizziness, my memory is back to normal, no stuttering and I have tons of energy! My family physician is a believer now and has taken quite an interest in Lyme disease…

I began to remember the bug bite and ‘sand’ incident and realized that the ‘sand’ must have been a tick. They are only the size of a sesame seed…

Routine physicals described me as in ‘excellent health’…until the fateful month of June 1990. What followed became an all encompassing nightmare straight from the very pits of hell…

I would forget something I had done only a few minutes before. My speech was slurred, and it was hard to swallow sometimes…

I was a little concerned as I had heard horror stories about Lyme but [my doctor] reassured me that I would be fine as the antibiotic would kill it…