Nature hates the white man!

[doodlemaier]

Bugs do not squik me out . . . but there is a small spider that is somewhere still with me, despite a few showers since and eating me alive. Probably brought him back from Pop's this weekend where there are no end of bugs. What does freak me out a little is that I just went to the toilet to have one of those 'all over' scratches and pulled no less than 8 ticks off of my body, fully ½ were very intimately attached. I'm certain there are more, and what's worse is they are tiny . . . the deer ticks that are notorious lyme disease carriers: The periods in this sentence are bigger than these ticks.

Comments

[shimshalabim.livejournal.com]

::shivers::
ya, ticks and mosquitos still bug me out [no pun intendededed] no matter how hard i try to honor all for what there are on this planet for.. but man, i still cant figure out good reasoning for those two little buggers.. i still kill em, but now most always with a blessing for favorable rebirth attached. poor things. what a miserable existence, and heavy karmic debt to be paid, methinks. but ya, i am not yet above squishing those creepys.

[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

Yes, like it or not, even these things are an expression of the Divine!

[helcat.livejournal.com]

at least you have health insurance now.

that's the problem with pretty pretty woods.

make sure J. checks lil'D.

[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

I might have you give me a once-over when I get home. These things are stoopid-tiny!

[lil-psy.livejournal.com]

My cousin had lyme disease, and the good thing about it is that the tick has USUALLY be imbedded for a day before you get the disease. So, make sure you get all those little suckers off so that you will lessen your chances. You can also get other diseases from ticks such as spotted fever and some other dear disease... but I think that is from the bigger ticks. Either way, just try to get them all off, especially in your hair. Blah! Good Luck! :-)

[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

You know how it can be up in them thar' hills. . . .just so long as I don't start sprouting antlers - it's cool!

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

Ok, that was odd, my comment just went poof!

I see from farther down that you have insurance, get your butt to a Dr or at least give them a call. I seem to recall that there's a vacination for Lyme now, it's at least worth a call in case I'm right.

Take care of yourself!

[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

I can't begrudge these little guys greasing down on my blood - it's not like they take enough that I'm gonna miss it. It's what they might potentially pass along that concerns me. But a vacination would be real good news! I'm stubborn to the point that it will take a nasty case of lyme to keep me out of the woods (at least for a while!)

[lil-psy.livejournal.com]

The issue with Lyme disease is that it sticks around so long, it must be like Mono. Blah!

[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

Lil D came down with a case last summer, but I think she picked it up from a another tick-infested place, other than Pop's . . .