In a message dated 11/07/97  15:18:02, you write:

<<   Anybody bother testing for Lyme disease?  I have a friend who had fast
 and irregular heart beat who was finally diagnosed as having it. Of
 course, this was about three years after his first pacemaker operation...
 Had they bothered in the beginning, he never would have had to endure all
 the trouble. >>


Is this an American thing?
Carol