Thanks everyone for your concerns for my mom. The doctor has gone ahead and put her on antibiotics for both Lyme's Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. (She is in NC where 35% of the RMS Fever cases are). He is also having her come by once a day to check her blood and her temperature for the next 2 weeks. My BIL was diagonosed and treated for Lyme's 10 years ago and has had no permanent problems from it. Unfortunately, she is also aware that another friend of mine was one of the first Lyme's Disease patients ever. He went undiagnosed for over 15 years, had all sorts of neurological problems and finally died from the toll it took on his body at age 62. She keeps bringing him up and I keep telling her "He was never given antibiotics to treat it, when they discovered it, it was too late. You were bit a week ago!"
Meanwhile, my Dad is worried about her, so he's told me that he's not eating, and I was just informed they had to take my nephew out of school in an ambulance for a fall and a concussion. I guess it's going to be one of those weeks. PLEASE cheer me up!