article_snippet: A mother was left with a paralysed face and in agonising pain after being bitten by a  tick in A mother own back garden.
article_snippet: A mother was prescribed antibiotics and underwent months of physiotherapy to help strengthen the muscles in A mother face - and is now telling A mother story to warn others of the dangers of tick bites.
article_snippet: On the day A mother was bitten A mother had been wearing jeans and a baggy jumper, which A mother believes the tick must have become caught in.
article_snippet: The bites themselves weren't itchy or painful, so I didn't think The bites themselves were the cause at first. '
article_snippet: I showed them to the doctors and them confirmed them were tick bites. '
article_snippet: I was finally feeling better after getting over Lyme Disease - a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticksLyme , but her face was still such a mess.
article_snippet: It's hard to believe that a few little tick bites caused so many problems. '