Lyme disease has seriously affected several people I know and I urge you to be alert. This infectious disease is usually due to being bitten by a tick infected with a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It can cause chronic ill health affecting the whole body and sometimes the brain. According to Public Health England, the condition is now endemic throughout most of the UK, in urban parks as well as the countryside.
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I woke on Tuesday at 4am and could hardly breathe. I was sweating (and, post-menopausal that I am, I never sweat) and racked with worry. I grabbed my hair, put my head in my hands, and said out loud, ‘What am I doing? What was I thinking?’