Area man gets an updated semi thanks to TV show

MARBLE HILL, Mo.
…Russell contracted Lyme disease from a deer tick near his home just before the Fourth of July in 1999. “The first two years were pretty rough,” he said. “It can feel like an extreme case of fatigue, and then I have really bad joint pains.”

Russell’s Springfield, Mo., doctor is working to get him in remission with heavy doses of antibiotics, but he can suffer from the disease for the rest of his life… (more…)