![]() ![]() Only after Douthat completes his move north to Connecticut, namesake of Lyme disease, does it seem obvious to local doctors that he is suffering from something tick-borne. ![]() A psychiatrist, his 11th doctor in 10 weeks, disagrees. doctor suggests stress as the culprit - as do, in subsequent visits, an internist, neurologist, rheumatologist and gastroenterologist. ![]() A few weeks later, he is in an emergency room at dawn with an alarming full-body shutdown, “as if someone had twisted dials randomly in all my systems.” The E.R. The urgent care doctor he sees first diagnoses him with a harmless boil. Back in D.C., Douthat has a swollen lymph node, a stiff neck and strange vibrations in his head and mouth. ![]() On the afternoon of their final home inspection, he wanders into the meadow out back, watches the deer frolic and reflects that the purchase “felt like confirmation that we were on the right path, that I had planned and worked and won the things I wanted and that I deserved them.”īut the scene is tinged with dread: Something is lurking in those woods. He’s feeling optimistic, maybe a little self-satisfied. Feeling the pull of home and burned out by life on Capitol Hill, Ross Douthat (a New York Times columnist) and his wife buy a 1790s farmhouse on three acres of Connecticut pasture. The early chapters of “The Deep Places” unfold like the first act of a horror movie. THE DEEP PLACES A Memoir of Illness and Discovery By Ross Douthat ![]()
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