Lyme disease forcing him to avoid sunlight

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20130629/APC0101/306290332/Left-dark

"The 38-year-old former cyclist and weight lifter keeps the curtains drawn all the time. He wears light-canceling goggles over a scarf and gauze pads on his eyes before stepping outside. He’s on oxygen and hasn’t been able to work in about five years."

"My overall quality of life is still so compromised by this disease that I can’t live a normal life. I can’t go out in the sun, I can’t even read on paper at all. I can hardly sign my name.”

"Braatz, who is confined to his darkened home almost all the time because light can trigger seizures, has Lyme disease."