Dan Wolfe said his health problems began after he went mushroom hunting around the Coralville Lake Reservoir and Lake Macbride State Park in late April.
One morning in the middle of May, he said he woke up with a rash on his stomach. The rash developed into a series of problems that included vision issues, headaches and the left side of his face becoming partially paralyzed. Four doctor visits and several hospital stays and trips to the emergency room later, he learned he had contracted Lyme disease.
“I’m going to be all right, but it was a scary two weeks,” said Wolfe, 24, a recent University of Iowa graduate in operations management. “I couldn’t move part of my face.”