What were your symptoms?

Fatigue, really bad headache,

terrible neck pain and back pain,

and spiked up high fever, like got up to 103, and a weird mark on my butt on the second or third day.

What did it look like?

It looked like a bull's eye, but to me at the time it just didn't, I don't know, I just didn't make the connection.

For how long did you have those?

Three days. Did you have those three days and you are seen by the doctor and she says what?

She thought it was the flu and then almost as an aside I showed her this weird rash she was like oh oh you have

Lyme disease just like that yeah my name is Taylor Quimby.

Hi. I have a confession.

Two summers ago, just weeks after my colleague Hannah was diagnosed with Lyme disease,

I got it too.

Hannah got caught in the middle of something strange,

a feud between two doctors working at the same clinic,

one who said she had Lyme disease,

and another who said she probably didn't.

And she wound up getting two rounds of antibiotics before feeling mostly better.

It was different for me.

My doctor saw the rash, gave me antibiotics, and that was that.

And that was the end of your dealings with Lyme?

I think so.

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