I Had Lyme Disease

It can happen to you too.

An engorged deer tick or “black-legged tick,” that spread the disease. Image by Jerzy Gorecki on Pixabay

With tick season rearing its ugly head, there seems to be a lot of talk about Lyme disease all of a sudden. It rings a familiar bell to me, as I had the disease in 2010.

I was living out in the country in Tennessee at the time, constantly romping my way through fields and woods where my eight-legged attacker found me. Living in this hot zone for ticks, I…