Teacher Overcomes Chronic Lyme Disease

Teacher Overcomes Chronic Lyme Disease

NASHUA – As other city teachers are organizing lesson plans in preparation for the start of another school year, Kelly Downing is just happy she’s home and walking. “I hug everyone now, just because I can,” Downing said, walking through the halls of the city rehab facility she called home for three months. Downing, a 37-year-old special educator, awoke two days before Christmas to find she couldn’t move her body from the neck down. It was the culmination of months of illness and periodic paralysis of various limbs, symptoms of what her doctor has diagnosed as chronic Lyme disease. Read more.