Where is wendy adams now

Until she tested positive. With a biotech background and degrees from Duke and UC Berkeley, Wendy often read research papers and dissected technical material. A simple course of antibiotics is not enough to fight the infection.

A strong immune system is also necessary. And this makes it hard to get well. After three months of intravenous antibiotics and exhaustive years of diagnoses that disrupted life as she knew it, Wendy began her slow, long road to recovery. The crushing fatigue improved. Her joints reduced, and she could walk in a normal way again. Clear thinking returned. Like many of us, she traveled a great deal in her youth, and the disease exists almost everywhere. Hiking with the dogs in the Carmel Valley?

Camping in an RV in the mountains near Lake Tahoe? Vacationing in Norway and Spain with her new husband? Not everyone is as lucky. If untreated, Lyme disease can spread to the heart and nervous system. And be fatal. The disease, like syphilis, is also transmittable during pregnancy. As far as researchers know, a horse or dog or cat cannot transfer Lyme disease to a person.

But the ticks can hitch a ride on a pet, meander into your home, and then bite you. And the disease is complicated. Various strains of the disease require different drug treatments. Some ticks have more than one pathogen virus, bacterium, microorganism in them and pass along more than one illness at the same time. Wendy, and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation , advise:. Then, word came that her father had been lost at sea, and Mama started acting strange.

She drew unusual symbols in chalk all over the house and read bizarre and terrible books. Wendy went to the orphanage. Before they took her away, Mama gave her the necklace.

It'll protect you when I can't. Always remember that your Mama loves you. Wendy stayed in the orphanage for several years before running away, finally deciding that she could take better care of herself the state could. Now, Wendy stands in front of the bank, staring at the photograph someone dropped into her cup when she wasn't looking - a photograph of her father, with an even more mysterious message written on the back, "Soon the Red Tide rises.

Stay safe, my little girl. Looking up, Wendy feels something welling up inside her that she hasn't felt for many years - hope. Wendy's Mama gave her that necklace when she was small. She would tell her stories while Wendy watched its strange eye-and-star design spinning in the air. Then Papa went missing, lost at sea, and Mama got strange. She drew arcane symbols in chalk all over the house, read bizarre books, and spoke in dead languages. Eventually, they came and took Mama to an Asylum and Wendy to an orphanage.

But Wendy was not an orphan, she would point out to anyone who would listen—her Mama was crazy, not dead, and no one ever found Papa's body so he might not be dead either. The orphanage could not hold Wendy for long, not after the picture of her father came in the mail. So she left, and now she is looking. Looking for her Papa, looking for her Mama, looking for some sense from the eye-and-star symbol that she still wears around her neck.

Mama would tell her stories, and Wendy would spin the necklace and watch as it glittered. Then, word came that her father had been lost at sea, and Mama started acting strange, drawing unusual symbols in chalk all over the house. They took Mama to the asylum, and Wendy went to the orphanage. Before they took her away, Mama gave her the necklace, to "protect her.