A Personal Journey with Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease I had never heard of. A rare disease possibly? A foreign disease? A zoonotic risk? I certainly had not seen a tick or develop the classic ‘bulls eye rash’. For more than a year my health began a slow and steady decline. Many neurological symptoms were manifesting including nausea, dizziness, joint pains, painful red eyes, noise and sound sensitivities, fatigue. For a time I was ignoring the signs, maybe this is what 40 feels like? Maybe 20 years working as a veterinary nurse had indeed caught up. I battled on; my body felt in turmoil. Looking back now it may have been easy to diagnose, joining the dots.