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bushhogging one of his fields in Amissville. Two days latex: Wilman came down with a fever of 102 that lasted four days. He went to the doctor and was given a two-week prescription of amoxicillin. A month later he woke up with severely hlurred vision in his right eye.

“I went to an ophthalmologist who said I had a blood clot in my right eye. a hemorrhage of the retina that would go away in a matter of weeks,” Wilman said. “Luckily, my wife and I searched the Internet to see if Lyme disease had anything to do with it and found dozens of articles about it.

“I called the ophthalmologist and told him about the correlation and, since he had never heard of it, referred me to Connie Smith who was a specialist in infectious diseases in Winchester”

Smith ran an MRI and found that spirochetes were eating away his optic nerve. In a matter of days, Wilman would have gone totally blind. A surgeon immediately installed an intravenous PICline that pumped antibiotics into his bloodstream. He witnessed signs of improvement within a couple days.

It turned out that the amoxicillin had not successfully eradicated the spirochete bacterium transmitted by deer ticks. As a result.

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