7:26 pm, August 22, 2013
She took her first antibiotic at the age of 19.
“I never really got sick,” Katina L. Makris told an audience of about 30 people on August 18 at the Chilmark Community Church.
This was all before she was bitten by a tick and later diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Ms. Makris’s inspirational talk was part of Bite Back for a Cure, a day on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to finding a cure.