“At the end of the day I couldn’t talk,” she said. “The words were in
my head but I couldn’t get them from my brain out of my mouth
.”
The muscles on the left side of her face weakened, while the right side
tingled. She could not walk a straight line but got herself to the
emergency room. A stroke code was called."
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Kelly Ann Smith shares the story of one Long Island woman with Lyme
Disease, the doctors who treat her, and the government's response to
the…