Lyme Disease

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I'm going to rip off a page from Larry King this week and write my column in the choppy format that I loved to hate when he was a regular columnist for USA Today. I have a lot on my mind and none of it really can be stretched out into an entire column. So here it goes: Kudos to Hagerstown Suns General Manager Kurt Landes for being named Thursday night as the Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce's Business Person of the Year. Even though the Suns finished last in the league, attendance was up 27 percent.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - Interrupted birthdays, angry Christmas Day calls and firing people are a few of the things Franklin County Commissioners G. Warren Elliott and Cheryl Plummer will not miss when they leave office next week. This past year, however, Elliott's vacations proved at least as challenging as his job. On a trip to Canada, he contracted Lyme disease, along with viral meningitis, which left him delirious and with a temperature of 106 degrees at an isolated fishing camp.

bonnieb@herald-mail.com When Chambersburg resident Morgan Crouch was 11, local doctors diagnosed her unusual rash as a spider bite, and her extreme tiredness as chronic fatigue syndrome. It turned out that Crouch, now 23, had Lyme disease, and because it was not treated properly at the outset, it became chronic. Her mother, Mona Crouch, found an internist in East Hampton, N.Y., on Long Island's east end, who specializes in the treatment of Lyme disease. She took her daughter there once a year, making the eight-hour drive to the office of Dr. Joseph J. Burrascano Jr. and paying to stay in a motel overnight.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com Falling Waters, W.Va. - A Falling Waters man who was killed on Interstate 81 Wednesday morning when his car swerved across the median and collided with an SUV had left work not long before, complaining of chest pains, police said. Michael J. Lupis, 37, was taken by ambulance to Washington County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, said Deputy Chris McCulley, with the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department. McCulley investigated the two-vehicle wreck, which happened at around 7:30 a.m. about a mile north of the Falling Waters/Marlowe exit.

Health Fair FREDERICK, Md. -The Maranatha Community Church of God is hosting a Community Family Health Fair, "Staying Healthy at Any Age," Saturday, March 21 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Maranatha Community Church of God, 123 Byte Drive, Frederick, Md. Dr. Jacqueline Douge, Deputy Health Officer of the Frederick County Health Department will talk about women's issues, and heart disease in women. This presentation is based on the Frederick County Health Department's recent partnership with the Heart Truth campaign.

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Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail publishes "A Life Remembered. " This continuing series takes a look back - through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others - at a member of the community who died recently. Today's "A Life Remembered" is about Sharon Rucker, who died May 9 at the age of 58. Her obituary was published in the May 17 edition of The Herald-Mail. In what she titled "A Living Portfolio," Sharon Rucker said she saw herself as an explorer, and she kept the notebook to chronicle the journey into her faith.

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail will run "A Life Remembered. " The story will take a look back - through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others - at a member of the community who died recently. Today's "A Life Remembered" is about Pastor Brian Lynn Leiter, who died Feb. 3 at the age of 58. His obituary appeared in the Feb. 5 edition of The Herald-Mail. marlob@herald-mail.com As the mother of four boys, Virginia Elizabeth "Be" Eckstine Leiter said she got used to them bringing home stray animals of all kinds.