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In November 2013 Colby came down with the flu. We know it was the flu
because he was kind enough to pass it along to his mother. When he
recovered, he attended school for two days and on the Tuesday evening
he returned home from playing hockey (he was team captain last season)
and felt horrible. The 'flu' was back with a vengeance.
Colby slept 14-16 hours at night and then had 2-4 hour naps
during the day. His throat was sore, his body ached, he had headaches,
and a fever that ranged from 101 to 104. He was taken to the clinic
where they tested for mono and strep throat. The tests came back
negative. Of course when test are negative no one calls, no one
follows up.
Colby was taken to his family doctor and he was tested for mono
and strep again. Negative. No call, no followup.
As Colby's symptoms remained the same, he was taken numerous
times to various doctors and was given countless blood test and even
an ECG. However, when it was mentioned that Colby had found a tick
crawling on him in November the Lyme disease test wasn't given because
he never presented with the classic bull's-eye rash.
In late December he started feeling dizzy and had a hard time
walking without holding on to something. His gait looked contrived,
like he was imitating an ill person. To date, unfortunately, he still
walks with a bobbing head and a lean toward the right. When he was
taken to McMaster Children's Hospital the doctors tried to 'fool' him
out of walking that way, they couldn't and the EEG they ordered came
back negative so it wasn't neurological. We were told to learn to live
with it.
In early March we had a few really nice days and Colby felt
somewhat better, he went to Florida for March Break and felt
relatively good. As soon as he got back to Ontario it was like we were
back to square one and he felt awful. Now the doctor thought there was
a psychological component to his illness and we were referred to a psychiatrist.
On Colby's birthday, March 29th, after asking for months, he
was finally given a Lyme test. We were told that it came back slightly
positive, negative, negative. Which apparently means negative to the
infectious disease specialist.
Colby was taken to an area naturopath who examined him and
clinically diagnosed him with Lyme disease and referred him to a NY
state Lyme specialist. He is currently undergoing intense antibiotic
treatment and is expected to make a full recovery by December 2014.
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