Gilda Radner was right. I haven't been feeling well for about a week. I was working at my sister's house to prepare for the landscaping on the only hot day we had over a week ago. When I came home and sat down for a cold drink, I felt something on my neck beneath the mess of hair. I smacked it and it fell on to my white tee, clearly a live tick, the large size found on dogs. Last night, after two days of hives, my neck and shoulder was itching so I checked to see if more were developing. A very tiny speck was in the center of the bump and after multiple magnifiers, it was a deer tick. A nymph. The stage that is more likely to transmit Lyme. It was dead yet still embedded, so I don't know if I killed it with the tweezers. Regardless, it may be why I have been feeling off kilter and that would mean that tiny, smaller than a poppy seed speck has been on me for a while. I doubt Urgent Care will do much other than tell me to see my own doctor which would be several days from now. I'll wait for the antibiotic until then.
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12 comments:
oh crap!
ugh...those little bastardos!
those Ugly Ticks !!! So nasty .... Love Gilda , she was great !
Did you save the tick? Sometimes they test it. Good luck and hope you feel better soon.
Hugs
Rose
Oh my! I hope the antibiotics help once you get them.
Oh no, oh no! Guess the good thing is that you *found* the little bugger so now have an idea what's going on. Hope you get in to your doc quickly and set up with meds that take care of the problem post haste!
Oh my, I hope you get treatment soon and feel better quickly. Ticks are so troublesome.
Hope it is not serious.
It is always something! I hope you get to the doctor soon!
Personally, I'd go in to urgent care and get antibiotics. Waiting til Monday is 2 more days of that tick disease floating around doing its thing and making you sicker.
fwiw
watercolour squirrel
Hoping you can get the antibiotics sooner than later and start feeling better.
Sending you love x
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