 Quote, everything felt like a dream with how fast everything went, said Brian Carr, Ruby's dad. She laid around for two days before it really started creeping up. From a clumsy falling down, wow, to the inability to turn her head from side to side, said Ruby's grandma, Karen. A trip to the emergency room led them to a scary diagnosis, tick paralysis. Quote, it's very rare in our area, which is here, and it's something to do with the female tick. The grandmother said, there you go. Former Virginia governor, Ralph Northam.