Close Encounter of the Buggy Kind!
Finally had a chance last week to get most of my seedlings and seeds into the ground. Unfortunately, sometime during the process I managed to pick up two hitch-hikers —- deer ticks, to be exact. I felt something on my back and grabbed one that was still roaming around. When I asked my husband to check my back, he found another that was already dug in and yanked it out for me. It would have been nice if that had been the end of the story, but within a day the whole area around the bite was red and swollen and it hurt quite a bit. The red area kept enlarging and eventually started to show a faint tell-tale “bull’s eye”.
As of this morning I’m to take two heavy-duty antibiotics every day for a month! Well, that’s a lot better than ending up with full-fledged Lyme disease anyway. If you or someone you care about should be bitten, you might want to check out this site Lyme Disease Association for useful information about tick borne disease. (The content of this page itself is mostly about the association, but the links to the left will provide both text and photos.) Even if you don’t generally work in your yard or walk in the woods, you can get these little devils from your pets.