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COLORADO
Bruce Crumpacker - I am 47 been very ill for the last 20 years
diagnosed with CFS, Just recently found I have Lyme as the source of
my long illness, my tick bites happened in the foothills around
Boulder & Longmont & Estes Park while we lived in Longmont from 1966
thru 1981. had frequent bouts with colds and flu-like symptoms 1978
to 1980 then in 1986 was bedridden for a year. I currently live in
Nebraska since 1981.
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Pam Mitchell - Turned in an engorged tick, taken from my head in
1989, to BAMC in San Antonio, Texas. Was told they don't have Lyme
Disease in Texas. Doubt that the tick was even looked at. From that
time forward had extreme fatigue, cystic ovary, multiple floaters in
eyes, headaches that took me to my knees, tumor of cervix, kidney,
left and right foot, unexplained rash that would come and go. Happy
family life, jogger, avid tennis player, OB registered nurse. All
this stopped day the tick took over, however it took a brain rupture
and multiple cardiac episodes to finnally be tested and the titer
came back positive after living in hell for 10 years. When I had the
left posterior artery on the circle of willis rupture I was air-vacked
to University Hosp. in Denver. This was 10 years to the month after
all the symptoms had started. While in the ICU for two weeks I
noticed that all the symptoms had abated and that I was being
infused with IV antibiotics that were working to help me prevent
infection and killing the Borrelia that I did not know my poor
immune system had tried to fight. I had been to at least 30 doctors
in a ten year period with all of the above and terrible arthritic
pain in most joints of my body. My daughter called me about three
months into rehab after the brain surgery and said that day they
heard the story of a man that had all my symptoms and also a brain
rupture. She said that she thought they were talking about me. Made
me promise that I would be tested. The military would only do the
Elisa and if it was positive then a Western Blot would be done. My
doctor somehow got the Western Blot done. The Elisa was negative,
but the Western Blot was strong positive. Because the tick had been
turned in 10 years earlier there may be a chance that the disease
was cystic. He did two weeks of Rocephin IV. It was a miracle! The
Miracle only lasted six months. After leaving Fort Carson for Fort
Sam Houston in 2000 I noticed six months after the move that all the
symptoms came back with a vengence.
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