TAYLOR Justice was "terrified" when her "healthy" daughter Madeline Tuckwiller woke up paralysed after a camping trip - all because of a tick.
"She couldn't walk and she was crawling on the floor," the 31-year-old mum said.
Taylor, from West Virginia, US had taken her four kids on a short camping trip on Sunday May 11 to mark Mother’s Day.
Five days later, Taylor noticed something was seriously wrong with her four-year-old daughter.
Madeline was struggling to move and appeared dazed , unable to get herself off the ground.
Taylor rushed her to hospital where medics began running a series of tests and scans but they couldn't figure out what was causing the paralysis.
She was then transferred to a specialist children’s hospital three hours away, where her condition seemed to be gettin