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A Delay in Progress - Part 2 - Lyme Disease

Once again, it’s been a minute since I posted last. At least I’ve been more active with blogging and writing stories this year than I was last year, so I guess I’ll take that little win for now. If you read my Delay in Progress post back in July, then you know I came down with an illness. I thought I was getting better when I posted that. In fact, in some ways I felt better, until I didn’t. Being summer, I’d gotten some sort of insect bite on my one leg before my illness set in. Thought little about it. I did not see what bite me but I just assumed it may have been a spider bite, which I’ve gotten before, no big deal. However, as time went on, I developed other health issues. I was tired all the time, which is nothing new for me, but this was much worse. I’d developed some joint pain, mainly in my hands and jaw. Red patches showed on my skin in various locations. I wondered if a tick had bitten me and I’d contracted Lyme Disease. Finally, I gave in and went to the local urgent care. T...