Lymes Disease

[Timewarp]

Sorry for your misfortune. I'll say a prayer and I know you'll get better. Just don't panic. Also you might want to consider some new residence. Out doors is overrated.

 

[nessonite1]

Yes...you only have bugs the size of a housecat 😛

 

[MistressValerie1]

I often quip that one needs a .410 shotgun to kill the roaches here, some of which reach 5 inches long and can fly several feet.

 

[BigNorm]

roaches? oh god, don't get me started on palmetto bugs down here.

in Florida, palmetto bugs are like monster roaches, their quite a few inches long, but the catch is they can fly, and their a form of roach.

a few years ago, while camping, i had a palmetto bug fly in my face. campers almost a quarter a mile a way heard my resounding "girlish" scream. thought the damn thing was gonna suck my brains out or something.

 

[Ignatz]

We have those big bastards in Texas, too. I used to rent a house on the Lower Colorado River southwest of Houston and those things were everywhere. (Fortunately my old tomcat, Archie Goodwin, developed a taste for them and kept the premises reasonably roachless.) We also had mosquitoes big enough to stand flat-footed and fuck a tom turkey.
I now live in West Central Texas where the worst things I have to contend with are rattlesnakes and water moccasins. Not nearly as scary.

 

[Merman]

Geez, can't get much more text book than that. I use to do the testing for that disease and that rash is definitely it. Sorry to hear the news, ness. You got it early so hopefully things will go well for you. Hang in there.

 

[nessonite1]

Thanks, Merman...Im just glad I caught it cause now the rash is fading...a few more days and I'd have never thought twice about it.

Iggy...I remember those damn bugs from visits to my aunt in Dallas. The bastards would get in her pool. Not many things can keep a kid out of a pool on a 110 degree day but that sure as hell did the trick!

 

[BigNorm]

Thanks, Merman...Im just glad I caught it cause now the rash is fading...a few more days and I'd have never thought twice about it.

Iggy...I remember those damn bugs from visits to my aunt in Dallas. The bastards would get in her pool. Not many things can keep a kid out of a pool on a 110 degree day but that sure as hell did the trick!

ya, try being in the woods at night on a comping trip, and one of those flies in your face making that wierd buzzing sound. scared the hell outta me.at least i got revenge, musta accidently bitten one of it's legs off during the struggle, cause immediatly afterward, thought i felt a small stick in my mouth. talk about ewww.

 

[Ignatz]

ya, try being in the woods at night on a comping trip, and one of those flies in your face making that wierd buzzing sound. scared the hell outta me.at least i got revenge, musta accidently bitten one of it's legs off during the struggle, cause immediatly afterward, thought i felt a small stick in my mouth. talk about ewww.

Could have been worse.
John Hanning Speke, remembered for tracking down the source of the Nile River in 1857, recorded that the interior of his tent "became covered with a host of small black beetles, evidently attracted by the glimmer of the candle." Exhausted, Speke went to sleep with them crawling over his person, only to be awakened by one of the "horrid little insects" struggling into his ear. Trying to remove the beetle only pushed it in further. The beetle continued into Speke's ear as far as possible, and then "he began with exceeding vigour like a rabbit in a hole, to dig violently away at my tympanum. The queer sensation this amusing measure excited in me is past description . . . What to do I knew not." After trying to flush the critter out with melted butter, Speke tried to dig it out with his penknife, succeeding only in killing it and increasing the damage to his ear. Infection followed, distorting his face and causing boils. "For many months the tumour made me almost deaf, and ate a hole between the ear and the nose, so that when I blew it, my ear whistled so audibly that those who heard it laughed. Six or seven months after this accident happened, bits of the beetle -- a leg, a wing, or parts of the body -- came away in the wax." (Quotes are from Speke's journals, as referred to in Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice, 1990, Scribner's, New York.)

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Ness's Picture Sure Seemed Worth More Than A Penny To Me!!

Ok, Fair Queen, One Last Time: Tickles Goood, Ticks Baaad! As Far As Being Nauseated By The Medication, I Thought You Used That Picture Of Me When You Wanted/needed To Hurl!!! I Am Sorry You And Your Dog Are Sick. Thankfully You Caught It Early And Have Started The Meds. I Am Glad Your Husband And Daughter Avoided Being Sick. I Hope You Feel Better Soon. I Would Volunteer To Be Staked Out On Your Property As Tick Bait, But I Don't Want The Spca To Come Down On You. Lol! Take Care.

 

[Ignatz]

GT, old pal, you have just added a valuable phrase to my working vocabulary: tick bait. What an insult to hurl at someone you loathe! I can hardly wait to find some slovenly, slothful, lumbering waste of oxygen I can use it on.

 

[Cbarton]

All I can offer is to reccomend you take with food to help the nausea (but not milk or dairy prducts..that calcium binds to the doxycycline and makes it not work)