Sue Gray, 59, has been sick half her life. But it took two decades to confirm why. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] When Gray was 30 and living with her then-husband in the middle of the woods in upstate New York, she felt a tick on her scalp one day after taking a shower. Her former husband plucked it off with tweezers, and “that was the end of that—for that day,” Gray says. Over the next few months, however, Gray’s health began to decline.