I got the dreaded tick bite during 1st hay cutting in 1985. Up until that time I had enough energy to work full time as a high school physics teacher, and run a subcontracting business nights and weekends. When there was not enough work to satisfy us, my partner and I would build complete houses, besides the teaching job and some farming. I did not short the teaching job, as I even earned advanced degrees in Physics and Biology.
After the tick bite (in belly button), I have never been the same. I was lucky to complete my career to the point of taking an early retirement, and my wife worrying if I didn't pull out at that time, I would probably die on the teaching job the next year. My energy is quite limited, and when it is gone, my body looses coordination and walking becomes very difficult, and thinking is nearly impossible. My ability to read and understand anything complex is totally gone. I have participated in Lyme support groups since 1990, and have seen hundreds of other's lives ruined by insufficient medical treatment. We have seen some Lyme sufferers die from the effects, especially those who have a misdiagnosis and thus can't proper and sufficient antibiotics.
To those who think that the tick has to be attached for 24 hours, you are living in fantasy land. Research has shown that the Lyme bacteria can be in the Central Nervous System (spinal cord and brain) in less that 2 hours. Most antibiotics will not cross the blood/brain barrier, so once the bacteria (spirochete= Borrelia burgdorferi) has entered the spinal and brain tissue, you have almost no defense in fighting this relapsing fever type disease.
I could go on, but nobody wants to know the serious crap about this disease. Just know that a negative blood test is nearly meaningless. The tests are highly unreliable, and many more people have Lyme than are diagnosed with it. Some public health authorities have estimated that 10X as many people have it, as compared to the number with a positive diagnosis.
My life?? We all get something before we see the pearly gates, and I thank the power above that I can do what I can, helping my kids and 8 grandkids. But my "Plan A" in life sure came to a crashing end because of Lyme, so I had to readjust to "Plan Z". And I have had continual medical treatment since 1985, thankfully..
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