Chatelaine – by Zeahaa Rehman April twenty fifth, 2023
“Maggie McColl first heard the joke about Lyme disease at a public discuss concerning the sickness in 2008. “The excellent news is, you’re not going to die,” she chuckles. “And the dangerous information is, you’re not going to die.”
McColl, primarily based in Nanaimo, B.C., first skilled signs of what she now is aware of is Lyme disease a number of years earlier than attending the discuss, in 2006. On the time, she was chair of Malaspina Faculty’s geology division, educating for about 15 years each within the classroom and thru discipline journeys into the bush. She had additionally carried out fieldwork in B.C. and the Yukon as an exploration geologist for 15 years earlier than that. By spring 2007, her signs—which included complications, a stiff neck, peripheral nerve ache in her arms, fingers, legs and ft, pores and skin lesions and rashes, deteriorating imaginative and prescient and worsening cognitive operate—grew to become so debilitating that she couldn’t work in any respect.”
