Tickgirl

 Tick girl:   Ten Years Ago Ten years ago, this month I realised something wasn't quite right.   I was walking on my parents farm and my hands started going numb.   I kept dropping things.  They swelled up like baseball mitts.   I remember walking with my dog and felt like someone was squeezing my feet with a vice.   I wasn't sure what was happening to me; however,  a decade later I now realise that was the last day I had where I felt quote 'normal'. I started getting severe headaches that didn't go away, earaches, unrelenting sore throats and strange nerve spasms in my back and in various places in my body.    I went to several doctors and heard the same story.   That could be anything.   Wait it out.  After going to multiple physicians and finally a rheumatologist who thought that I had an autoimmune disorder.   I was tested for Lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and a slew of other illnesses.   I had MRI's, neurological tests consisting of sticking long needles