Damn ticks!

[mhphoto]

So there I am, minding my own business on the throne, catching up on a Car and Driver, when I look down and see a tick latched onto my leg, malevolently siphoning my lifeblood and growing thicker by the second.

Needless to say I executed nearly every medieval torture technique on the little bastard I could remember ( ), and then he met his watery demise.

I guess it's a damn good thing I'm in the middle of a Z-pak anyway. Hopefully I won't be seeing you guys on the other side of lyme disease, but I'll be keeping my eye out for that evil bulls-eye rash anyway.

 

[jimeradams]

Damn, I hate ticks!

 

[WFT]

They seem to be bad this year, maybe the mild winter? It's funny though when we were kids we lived in the woods, ticks were a common occurance. Now when you get one ,your scared to death of lymes disease. Is it that were older and wiser, or scarier?

 

[dennishoddy]

They seem to be bad this year, maybe the mild winter? It's funny though when we were kids we lived in the woods, ticks were a common occurance. Now when you get one ,your scared to death of lymes disease. Is it that were older and wiser, or scarier?

I came down with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever about 5 years ago. Woke up one morning feeling a little rough. By noon, I was wearing two winter coats, thinking I was going to freeze to death, all the while sweating profusely. It was 100 degrees outside. Co-workers took me to the ER where they put in an IV drip of antibiotics, and did blood tests. By late evening the chills went away but still had to take antibiotics for a month afterward.
It's a potentially fatal illness that shouldn't be taken lightly.
Most experts say that if you do get a tick on you, pull it out with gloves or tweezers, put it in a bag or old pill bottle, date it and freeze it.
If you start showing symptoms, take the frozen tick with you to the DR.

 

[okie98]

They are really thick this year. Not enough cold weather to freeze them out.

 

[Lurker66]

Its a bad year for ticks. Got eat up while hunting morels. Turkey season was same. Squirrel huntin was worse. Tween ticks, mosquitos, and chiggers I almost passed out.

 

[mhphoto]

If you start showing symptoms, take the frozen tick with you to the DR.

He's probably already been ground up into little pieces by Tulsa's water treatment facilities…

 

[HMFIC]

I hate ticks. Little nasty bloodsucking varmints. FIRE is the only solution. I'd take the burn just to see it torched to death.

 

[okietool]

I know a lot of you, if not most, know Avon's Skin So Soft bath oil is an outstanding tick and flea repellent. The also make a sun block with the Skin So Soft in it.

 

[greyBeered]

The "tick lasso" is a fantastic way to remove the pests. It says its for pets, but we always have one of these around for humans. Works on the itty bitty seed ticks as well, and even when using a mirror to examine the "hard to see" parts. Highly recommended!

http://www.amazon.com/Trix-Ticklass...TF8&qid=1339875684&sr=8-1&keywords=tick+lasso