I don't want to clog up the boards with my personal tales of woe but if this helps someone avoid what Im facing it was worth the time to post it.

I got some good news/bad news yesterday. The good news is that we may have found the reason for my heart damage as well as a half dozen other nedical problems I seem to have developed over the last 3-4 years.

The badnews is that it's Lyme disease. The worse news is that it's probably not curable at this point.

The main reason I decided to post it here is that I've had tests for lyme several times that showed up negative. This time, it was detected because I saw a neurologist for neuropathy in my feet and she ordered a bunch of tests including several different tests for lyme. They took 11 vials of blood.

The obvious message is to be careful in the woods and with ticks but even more important is to be insistent if you have reason to worry and get tested EXTENSIVELY before all the bad stuff happens and whie it's still curable.