The insect Emily Hyde found on the sofa of her Middlesex home was no bigger than a drawing pin head – but despite its tiny size the bug would go on to affect every part of her life.
At the time – unsure what it was – businesswoman Emily, 45, took a photograph of the insect and sent it to a friend, who identified it as a tick.
Emily assumed it had fallen from one of her two dogs – Lucy, a springbatt, and Mike, a rescue dog from Greece – so she flushed it away and carried on with life.
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