Ticks are bloodsucking arachnid parasites known to carry and transmit diseases.*Warning this post will give you the creepy crawlies and heebee jeebee's.
I was getting the heebee jeebee's just looking up images of ticks on the Internet. There were some really gross ones but I thought that this drawing (picture shown above) wasn't too disgusting but enough so everyone can get the point.
Ticks are gross and really give me the heebee jeebee's as you might have figured out. Since my hair is getting longer, I think I'm a more susceptible target for them. Should I just chop it? We'll see...
Ty and I have been camping and hiking a lot since moving here to Moscow. We always do a tick check afterwards but we missed one. Monica and I drove to Spokane for a conference and we stayed at my sister Michelle's house for the night. Before dropping off to bed we went to the park to let the kids play. While playing I felt a pinch on the back of my neck. I reached back thinking "darn mosquitos" and I grabbed something hard. I pulled my hand forward and blood was dripping off my fingers (literally dripping). I panic and make the girls look at my neck. To my surprise there wasn't a nice little poke from a mosquito but a chunk of skin missing where a tick had gotten me. Yuk!! There was blood everywhere. We then find another bite mark a little higher in my hair line. It was the original bite mark where my tick had been embedded for maybe days drinking blood from my brain stem. NASTY!!
Now I'm the Dirty Tick Girl!
I showered, I promise. How did we miss him? Ty was freaking out saying "You mean I was sleeping next to a tick?" Thanks honey, the tick was eating my brain stem not yours. I could've died. I laugh because Ty said "Oh you don't really need your brain stem." Oh ya... that's like the only thing you really need. I had to google signs and symptoms of Lyme disease and rocky mountain fever and instantly felt weakness and achyness. (I'm a closet hypochondriac)
Any way, I'm better now and I didn't get Lyme disease or Rocky mountain fever, but I still have the heebee jeebee's. I can't even go outside without feeling the creepy crawlies. Yuk!
6 comments:
okay that is NASTY! I hate ticks and this totally freaks me out. I am always terrified my kids will have one on them and i won't find it. I was totally having the heebee jeebee's the entire time I was reading this post...and even a little now thinking about it!!! Glad you are okay!
Steph, you are right. I do have the heebee jeebee's....that is so AWFUL!!!! And so thoughtful of Ty..NOT. I'm glad you caught it when you did!!!
PS The word verification for me on this is 'clings'....kinda appropriate, huh??
Ugh. Yuck. I hate ticks. I give Skeeter a thorough checking every day, and have found several since we moved here. And pretty much every time Lee has a field exercise, he finds one. Ticks are EVERYWHERE out here, and since Lee told me how they work, I get paranoid every time I walk through a wooded area (very, very often out here). Glad you're lyme free!
wait, what you missed it. and you have blond hair. I'm srewed with my brown hair. But I'm glad you found it. you crazy nature tick woman.. jk. glad your ok.
Gaaaaaa! That's so yucky! But I did have to laugh when you called yourself the dirty tick girl. Guess what's coming up this weeeeeeek?!?!
SICK! Last year at a family reunion my sis-in-law got one right below her collar bone. I had to immediately go see if there were any on me, and couldn't stop getting the shivers and freaking if anything touched me.
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