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    ‘These things are everywhere’: Experts and Lyme disease patients warn of tick season

    by Vivian La, Chicago Tribune Jun 29, 2023 5 minutes
    Lincoln Park Zoo health research coordinator Andrea Flores, right, and Lincoln Park Zoo intern Hope Orsi look for ticks at Ottawa Trail Woods in Lyons, Illinois, on June 23, 2023.

    CHICAGO — For eight years, Streator, Ill., resident Elizabeth Gillette experienced symptoms that her doctors could not explain. She sometimes forgot how old she was, had irregular heartbeats, and even got lost in the town she grew up in.

    “I would pull over and I was like, ‘I don’t know where I am,’ ” said Gillette, who is 38. “And it was the most terrifying thing I have ever gone through.”

    Finally, in 2020, Gillette was diagnosed with Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness. She said it took years of advocating for herself, reading medical journals and simply asking the neurologist who suspected she had multiple sclerosis to “humor me and test for Lyme disease.”

    Gillette and her doctors traced everything to a tick bite she got in 2012 while mowing the lawn. Now, her family takes extra precautions when going outdoors and she

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