by ButtLight 31 Replies latest jw friends
Why were you all alone???
We all went out on Sat. but I wasnt ready to go home on Sunday, so I stayed. It was different being all alone. No neighbors very close either. I had my cell, but it wasnt fully charged, so I ignored a few people just incase a bear was trying to eat me lol!
Well I sure am dang sorry about your encounter with them there nasty critters...but for myself...I would be more worried about a certain BUTT person walking around the woods with a loaded shotgun. Heck...if I had known that...I would have sent some elders up your way! I heard this was what BUTT was heard telling the POlice when she ACCIDENTLY shot aforementioned elder(s) I eventually scammed into going near her cabin...
"But Mr. POliceman...I thought that there elder I riddled with my shotgun was an evil hairy bear trying to attack poor little ole me and I don't see too good after a night drinking with my fellow nun, Brookie."
love and hugs...mumsy
Buttlight you said: "actually they don't bite" so how do they sack blood? Actually I noticed some ticks on my dog today and I cut them in half with a pair of scissors to kill them, and they certainly had sucked blood in them.
Buttlight you said: "actually they don't bite" so how do they sack blood?
I should rephrase that. Its not like getting stung by a bee. When they get on you, you dont even know it. (unless you feel them crawling) I dont know much about them, but as someone else said, they may have something that numbs you, and you dont even know they are there unless you see them. The little sucker was sucking all night, and i had no clue till i woke up and saw it there.
Well, I "Willingly" gave blood today for my 4th time now.
I didn't realize humans could get bitten so easily by ticks. In WI, where I live, our 2 dogs and 2 indoor/outdoor cats get ticks. Mostly the lyme-disease carrying deer ticks as we have deer in our yard daily. We give the pets anti-tick and flea meds but they still get bitten. 1 year and I have yet to be bitten, as far and I know. I do have to say, I have found them on my scalp. The creepy crawly feeling is unbearable until they fall on the table or floor. Then they die. Perhaps animals, as the preferred prey, are a protection to humans? I certainly am starting to think so!! I hike with proper shoes (water-proof, above ankle, etc.) but do not wear tick protective clothing or sprays. I guess I am using my pets as a barrier. Butt, you are correct, Ticks use a chemical to numb the skin so the prick of their mouth does not draw attention. Then, they draw the blood into their bodies to feed the eggs. If you have a birthmark-like patch where the tick was in, I believe 2-4 weeks, this means that you have been infected by the Lyme disease. Blood tests will come up negative until at least 4-6 weeks after infection. So, no rush on the DRs. visit. Hope the best. Sounds like the ticks that got you are not deer ticks - you are lucky!
Even tweezers can be a dodgy choice for removing ticks. In Germany the Pharmacies will sell a special plastic tool for safely removing ticks - they are like tweezers except the ends are more paddle-like and won't easily cut the tick in half or break the head off as normal tweezers will do.
Any tick bite should be investigated by a doctor.
Pope
When I got back, I was loaded full of wood ticks. 18 to be exact!
Buttlight I am shocked and appalled that you didn't take the opportunity to witness to those ticks and explain to them how they're not supposed to be eating your blood on pain of death (although their conscience might have allowed them to eat fractions of your blood). It could have opened up an opportunity for you to start a study with all 18 of them. Didn't you have a bible or Wacktower magazine handy? Tsk, tsk......how quickly we forget.
As I live in the woods, I had a vaccination last week against ticks, its my first one so I hope it works !!
Didn't you have a bible or Wacktower magazine handy?
Well, i did, but out there, with only an outhouse, I mistakenly used it for tp!
