Tick Tick Tock
VIDEO ON DEMAND (VOD)
00:45:00
Documentary
Released 2018
A tiny tick the size of a pencil tip is infecting hundreds of thousands of North Americans each year with a debilitating disease, frequently undiagnosed by doctors and ignored by victims until it’s too late.
“The doctor said, I have no idea what’s going on with you and I’m afraid it’s going to kill you,” says Ted Turnbull, a honey bee farmer and Lyme victim from Elgin MB.
Lyme disease can cause chills, muscle aches and a distinctive bullseye rash where the tick bite occurred. Untreated, Lyme can progress to debilitating headaches, joint pain, paralysis and cardiac problems.
“I couldn’t breathe,” says Brynn Mayo, struck down in her teens by Lyme and undiagnosed for several years despite worsening symptoms that left her weak, fighting for air and confined to a wheelchair.
Program length: 45 minutes
TICK TICK TOCK – PREVIEW
“I can’t compete in bodybuilding anymore,” explains Bryce Pettinger. Strong and fit from years of careful menu planning and daily workouts, the Brandon MB man suffered muscle twitching and partial paralysis that has been traced to Lyme.
Tick Tick Tock chronicles the struggles by Lyme patients and their families for proper diagnosis and treatment of a disease that can lay dormant and undetected in the body for months, then mercilessly attack.
“It progressed and got worse to things like full amnesia, where I don’t know my parents. I don’t know my home,” recalls Mayo, who was living near the tiny community of Mather MB when first infected.
Learn more about the disease that has confounded medical authorities and forced patients in Manitoba and other parts of Canada to seek treatment in the United States.
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