Imagine that you cannot remember your 2-year-old's name or how to get to the grocery store. Your bones and muscles ache with pain and you feel like a 90-year-old with Alzheimer's. This is how 29-year-old Jill Fleury described feeling for at least the past four years as a result of having Lyme disease and two related co-infections. A new bill proposed in Maryland offers hope for Fleury and the many other Lyme disease sufferers in the state to receive necessary treatment and insurance coverage.

"It feels like my brain doesn't work properly. It's very disturbing and embarrassing. I often forget what a conversation is about and just...