Pastor Slayer Almost Died of Lyme Disease

The alleged assailant at yesterday’s rampage at a St. Louis-area church had suffered from a severe case of Lyme Disease and  had lesions on the brain as a result, according to this CBS News report.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had written extensively of the plight of Terry Sedlacek last August. His was a severe case that had gone undiagnosed for a long time:

These days, Sedlacek, now 26 and living in Troy, Ill., with Abernathy, has difficulty speaking. He’s got lesions on his brain. He’s taking several drugs, including anti-seizure medication.”He takes enough medicine at night to knock a cow out, but he only sleeps two or three hours a night,” Abernathy said…

The funds raised are helping pay for treatment in Florida in a hyperbaric chamber that has helped others with his symptoms. He’s now about halfway through the month of treatments, and his mother said in an e-mail that he is doing well and doctors have been able to reduce some of his medications.”

As it turns out, the chimp who attacked the woman in Connecticut last month also suffered from Lyme Disease.

‘Bulo knows someone who went a long time before her Lyme Disease condition was diagnosed, and it is uncertain if she will ever make a complete recovery from the disease. If you even suspect that Lyme Disease is a possible diagnosis for you or a loved one, INSIST that the physicians test for this.