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Exchange Exemplar: Lyme Disease, Long Undiagnosed

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The deer tick that carries Lyme.
Scott Bauer, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ask people to list scary diseases, and there's a good chance Lyme disease will show up on the list. 

Not just because of its many and varied symptoms, but because it can be so hard to diagnose correctly. 

In Andrea Caesar's case, it took 25 years.  She wrote of her experience in A Twist of Lyme: Battling a Disease That "Doesn't Exist."

Andrea joined us in 2014 to talk about her long journey with the affliction.  We revisit that interview here.

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.