Lyme Disease....

Get on it quick and stay on it.

In 1976 I was leasing a bunch of land in west Texas for quail hunting. The landowners son got bit by a rattle snake in the front yard when he was 21 months old. The doctors cut him down his fingers to his wrist and then up to his shoulder so it could swell. He lived over that but the scar tissue was crippling his arm.

I got him in the Scottish Rite Crippled Childrens Hospital in Dallas so that they could fix it. I went up to visit him and the kid in the bed next to him was suffering from lyme disease. He was partially paralyzed and in real bad shape. They did not get on it in time and did not know what he had.

They said that that kid would be in the hospital for 6 months and then to rehab. I am sure that the medicine is much better today and you got on it quick. All I know is that it is nothing to fool around with.