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Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare
Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare It took four years for doctors to figure out what was wrong with Jasmin Perdomo. And still, that didn't solve her problem. Perdomo was 27 and living in Puerto Rico when symptoms presented as headaches, body aches and extremely swollen joints in 2014. All tests were coming back normal as the Elizabeth native was getting worse. Symptoms progressed to vertigo, heart problems, and a laundry list of cognitive issues like memory loss, inability to balance, slow speech, and facial paralysis. Sometimes, Perdomo would get in her car to go somewhere, only to find herself on the roads and completely…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Judge Releases Musician Accused Of Beating Wife In 5-Hour Cliffside Park SWAT Standoff Judge Releases Musician Accused Of Beating Wife In 5-Hour Cliffside Park SWAT Standoff
Judge Releases Musician Accused Of Beating Wife In 5-Hour Cliffside Park SWAT Standoff UPDATE: A Cliffside Park jazz player involved in a 5-hour SWAT standoff spent less than a day at the Bergen County Jail before a judge ordered him released pending a hearing. Kermit Driscoll, 62, was first taken to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for a psychiatric evaluation before he was transferred to the Bergen County Jail following Monday night's incident. He was to be held in the county lockup pending trial on charges that include aggravated assault, violating a restraining order, false imprisonment, hindering his arrest, obstruction and harassment. But a judge released Drisc…

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by Jerry DeMarco