>> i remember my muscles, my hands all turned in. and my legs came up. i just was spasming, and i lost consciousness. >> she spent four nights in a hospital in the dominican republic, where doctors found lesions on her lungs, according to hospital records. >> my wife still was having a hard time basically breathing and staying alive. >> my muscles, my muscles. >> she just kept having these convulsions and they kept sticking needles into her. >> you don't want to lose anybody, especially your wife or your children. and there was nothing i could do. >> you got me there. you got me there. >> it's been three years now, but tina says she still has lingering effects. she doesn't know what made her sick. all her doctors in canada can tell her is something she