Wow:
I used to brag that I never got sick. I rarely came down with colds or the flu. I had health insurance for catastrophic illness and only used it once, for surgical repair of a broken leg, the result of heli-skiing, the sport of a vigorous and fearless person.
But in 1999, all that changed. I learned what it is like to have a disease with no diagnosis, to be baffled by what insurance covers and what it does not, and to have a mind that can’t think fast enough to know whether a red traffic light means to press on the gas or hit the brakes. I have late-stage neuroborreliosis, otherwise known as Lyme Disease. The neurological part reflects the fact that the bacteria, a spirochete called borrelia burgdorferi, has gone into my brain.
This has been 8-10 yrs ago. Blood tests show positive for Lyme Disease. So I don't know if either of us could ever come...
I stuck him on a piece of Scotch tape and the next time I met with the entomologist at Hopkins she took it back to her lab, magnified it and brought me the picture. You could then see it's little l...