Dangers of gardening in Northeast US- I started feeling itchy and irritated on two spots on the side of my body a few days ago. Turns out two engorged ticks were doing Dracula on me. My wife got them off. A few hours later the telltale lyme circles appeared. So off to urgent care. Now I'm on full lyme protocol for 21 days. The antibiotics are making a mess of my digestive system. Other than that, all is well.
85 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taft 28 May
Get well quick, @siggy47!
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Get well soon, we need you here at SN 😉
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Thanks. I'm fine. I'll tell you, though. Those engorged tickets are scary looking creatures.
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Oof. Ticks are one of my big fears (though so far, it's only the dog who's had to deal with them). Glad you caught them quickly -- hoping for a quick recovery.
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I think I don't show them enough respect. As a kid we spent summers in what amounted to a shack in the woods. Picking off ticks was routine, but no one even thought about diseases.
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Get well soon
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Thanks
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Hope you recover soon and well!
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Thanks
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Hope you have a fast recovery!
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Thanks. It's pretty common around these parts. The worst part is the antibiotics. Nausea.
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Had a couple of run ins as well…. Goes undiagnosed for a lot of people so best to get on the antibiotics.
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Yep. I had a dog get it about 10 years ago. Undetected for a while until he got very lethargic. Even for him the antibiotics prevented any long term problems.
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I have seen at least two people get very sick over the long term. Courtesy of herds of deer dropping ticks as they wander about apparently.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 28 May
My wife had an undiagnosed case. She also has MS, so the symptoms might have been masked
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Yeah - I have heard similar with other long term illness masking it
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Hey, I have gone down the late 60s/early 70s westerns path. I loved those movies as a kid. Watched Jeremiah Johnson. The casual violence and death kind of surprised me. Also the spaghetti westerns. I watched Once Upon A Time In The West.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @Athena 28 May
Hope you have a very rapid recovery.
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Thanks
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