It was a progression of a thousand knives. One day it was “I'm a little bit more tired”. The next day maybe a particular joint was hurting. It wasn't like one cataclysmic event.
To be honest, I've had health problems since early childhood, so I think I've possibly been sick for most of my life. But I guess I realized I was having quite severe breathing challenges, which is associated with Babecia, in addition to Lyme disease. Babecia is a co-infection. I don't know if you've gotten there yet.
I sort of developed a flu-like illness and bronchitis and pneumonia in 2008. That's when I never got better. That's the story we hear so often: someone got a weird summertime flu or a flu-like illness and then they just never recovered. They had another unrelated health problem and they never got better.