Mark Asher had always considered himself to be an outdoors person, running up to 22 miles per week and frequently working in his yard.
The Ellicott City resident never thought anything of the dozens of tick bites he suffered over the years, especially in the early 1980s when he lived in a farm house near Brookeville.
Little did he know how those tiny bites would come back to haunt him in the form of chronic Lyme disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2005.
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