In a message dated 2/25/2006 8:36:49 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: My dog [that Coyote buddy] and I ran into a tick nest in Florida once. I looked down and couldn't see the blue in my blue jeans..then noticed the brown was moving.
YAHHH! Thousands of ticks all crawling "up" and can't be brushed off no matter how hard I danced around or ran in circles!! Oh mannnnnnnnnn -- that makes my skin crawl. At least you SAW the bastards. I didn't realize that I had done what I had done. There weren't *thousands*, so that makes a difference. I *found* the first tick crawling on my shoulder when we were inside for the night, removed it and never gave it another thought. The next morning I *found* another on my rib cage and thought: "odd, that's two!" After I found the third one an hour later, I started checking myself. But some of them were in places I couldn't see and some of them were in places I'd never think to check!! Most of them I never saw -- just saw and felt the results of the bites (they itch like crazy and last for weeks). And I didn't relate the huge swollen area on my ribs to a tick bite until I remarked about it to my hostess and at her insistence, showed it to her. She identified it as a Lyme's bulls-eye. We were leaving for home that day, so she packed it with a wet CS pack for me, and we headed out for a two-day drive home. Enroute, three more bulls-eyes showed up. Believe it or not, I removed the final tick from an unmentionable area the next night. By the way -- another part of my treatment for all of this was my chiropractor's electro-stim treatment. I'm sure that made a huge difference in overall comfort through all of this, as well as -- according to him -- neutralizing the toxins of the bites. MA
