Day 1: Lyming It Up
June 5, 2017 When I hear the word "bullseye" I think of two things: 1. A dart, stuck in the middle of a dartboard, and a guy with a potbelly jumping up and down and cheering 2. The horse from Toy Story 2 I tend not to associate 'bullseye' with ticks, but I guess after today- well, there's no going back. In the midst of graduating from Hingham High School on saturday, to staying up at a senior party in the school cafeteria until 5 in the morning, to having a graduation party with all my closest friends and family, I happened to notice a red bump on the side of my abdomen. Today that bump grew a red circle around it and whoop-dee-doo my first week of freedom is marred by a development of a new disease. Waiting in the doctor's office, I'll admit I was pretty freaked out. I mean, just the idea of that sort of parasite being on my body made my skin crawl (pun totally intended). Living around woods in New England I've always grown up knowing that ...