Tom Seaver and Lyme Disease

I was sad this week to see the loss of the greatest New York Met player (pro baseball), Tom Seaver. It is interesting, according to one of the many stories I read about him, that in one it read "Seaver was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1991, and it reoccurred in 2012 and led to Bell’s Palsy and memory loss."

Last year Seaver was diagnosed with dementia. What I found most interesting is in the quote I cited about and others, it seems to suggest Seaver was bitten again, and it states that exactly in one article. This seems to fit what we have heard from Lyme "non-believers" that it is not a chronic infection that impacted him but another tick bite or exposure to some type of bite.

It seems the medical world still is holding onto outdated information and ideas. But that should should surprise no one on this forum.

People loved Tom Seaver, including me, and I wasn't even a Met fan. But from all the great things I had read about Seaver the man and athlete, it's a shame he went too early and how it happened.

Lewy Body Dementia is a state it doesnt explain anything about the why. I wonder if his family had a autopsy as it seemed like it took 4-5 days to announce his death. Parkinsons, Lewy Body Dementia are usually only confirmed conclusively with a autopsy. My father they said had Lewy Body Dementia rather then Alzheimer we never had anything done to confirm any type of diagnosis though. He had no antibodies for Lyme.