This is very interesting to me as my husband had a bullseye rash several years before his pd diagnosis. He was NOT treated properly for lyme. I don't dispute his pd diagnosis, but look to pd as a result of improperly treated lyme. He was never tested for any of the other infections, but a nephew was diagnosed with ehrlichia after it was feared he had leukemia as the symptoms are very similar. I don't know that what we have here is true lyme, but another form harder to detect through tests. My own form left me temporarily weak on one side, slurring words, and unable to think clearly. Nothing showed up on tests, but I had the tickbite and the rash and so was given proper treatment.

My advice is not to let anyone tell you that tick fever is not deadly serious whether lyme, stari, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, ehrlichosis, and dozens of others.

I know some roll their eyes at this theory of pd, but it just seems to me to be too much of a coincidence to be discounted.