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Amy Tan

I have late-stage neuroborreliosis, otherwise known as Chronic Lyme.

 

I have had this disease since 1999. My case is, in many ways, typical.

Like many, I had little awareness of Lyme disease, because I did not live in what was considered the tick-infested hotbeds on the East Coast. I am a Californian–that’s where I file my taxes–and I had been living among the hills of San Francisco with its tick-free, concrete sidewalks.

For a good long while it did not seem significant that I also have a home in New York City, that I weekend in the country, and that my main form of exercise is hiking in the woods.

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In addition to trekking in the woodlands of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Santa Cruz counties in California, I have also sojourned to leafy spots in Connecticut and upstate New York. I once loved to sit in the tall grass next to a river and lean my back against a shady oak tree.

I did not know that I had also placed myself in