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Book Review: Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole my Childhood, Made Me Crazy and Almost Killed Me by Ally Hilfiger

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Release Date:  May 10, 2016 Publisher:  Center Street Format:  Paperback Pages:  287 pages Genre:  memoir Buy:  Kindle  |   Paperback Synopsis:  Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network, and had acted in an off-Broadway play. But now, Ally was pushed to a psychotic break after struggling since she was seven years old with physical symptoms that no doctor could explain; everything from joint pain, to night sweats, memory loss, nausea, and brain fog. A doctor in the psych ward was finally able to give her the answers her and her family had desperately been searching for, and the diagnosis that all the previous doctors had missed. She learned that she had Lyme disease-and finally ha...