YES, YOU CAN GET LYME DISEASE IN THE WEST A close friend of mine in the Bay Area had Lyme disease.  And she had it for years.  At first, doctors told her it was impossible she had the disease because “it doesn’t occur in California, only in the Midwest or Northeastern U.S.”   Thus she didn’t get the early diagnosis and care she needed to successfully fight it.  Though a short course of antibiotics cures most patients at early stages, later on the disease becomes far more difficult to identify and treat and can lead to chronic fatigue, muscle and joint...