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Now that I am feeling better every day I just want to run, jump and holler like a child again. I truly believe I was in the presence of an angel…

My shoulder was so bad it become frozen. One morning I woke up and could not move my legs. They were full of cramps and pain…

Most Canadian doctors are not familiar with Lyme disease and have not been trained to recognize it. The simple but cruel lesson I learned is that if doctors don’t look for something, they won’t find it…

Kelly’s condition has improved to about 90% of her pre-Lyme state. She has very little arthritic symptoms, her cardiac symptoms have all but disappeared, and she has much more energy than before…

I have a story to tell about a strange illness I have had for over 2 years. It could easily happen to you or anyone you love and overnight your life can change…

Four days [after treatment] the symptoms disappeared and I stopped using the wheelchair. After nine days, my blood pressure started to drop. Today, I am…feeling almost pre-[infection]…

I fear that my body now lacks the strength to tolerate the cure, but I have told my story so that other doctors and patients (particularly in Saskatchewan) lose the false impression that Lyme is a disease that they have ‘somewhere else…’

My husband has become my caretaker. Our plans for our retirement smashed by Lyme – and by that first doctor’s blindness to the disease…

And the doctor hunt continued…I chased the golden egg, someone who was going to listen…

The spots were not the classic bull’s-eye rash that I kept pulling up on the internet. The rash was all over her arms, legs, face and feet…

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…