Lyme: He Went Online Doctor Confirmed His Diagnosis

Callison: Doctors couldn’t get it right, but Internet did

Sioux Falls teen figured out he had Lyme disease

For more than a month, Graham Sudenga knew something wasn’t right. He’d developed a lump on his neck, then a rash. His body ached, he was feverish and he would develop headaches of migraine-like intensity. Then Graham’s face drooped on the right side, as if he had received injections of novocaine. On the first day of his freshman year at O’Gorman High School, he tried to drink milk from a carton. Friends laughed as it dribbled out of his mouth and down his shirt. Read more.

Go to the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society site for more information on tick-borne diseases.