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More Medical Maladies for Motumbo.

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doritos
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The alliteration helps me get over how ridiculously obnoxious this situation is. Really. If you have a weak stomach, move on.

So I had this pretty sizable bump on the back of my head in my hair for the last three to four days. Big, we're talking like half a marble. Thought it was a bite or something, it kinda hurt when I fucked with it so I decided to just leave it alone right... bad call. Last night I happened to scratch the back of my head and I notice the "bump" is loose. As in I might be able to rip it off, it feels like it's hanging by a small thread...

Naturally I wanna rid myself of this bitch, so I start pulling. Hurts like hell, finally manage to wrangle it out, I look at what's between my thumb and my forefinger and it's a goddamn tick. FUCK! Caught completely by surprise I threw it on the ground because I'm a dumbass. So of course from that point on I'm tweaking the fuck out. Checking myself every time I feel a little pinprick on my skin, running my hands through my hair over and over, etc. Then, later that night, my paranoia is justified... I feel something so I have my friend pull it out, and sure enough it's another fucking tick.

I haven't been in the woods, really. All the kids who party here have been away, so I've really just kinda been working or chilling at home for the past week which is when I first noticed the bump... and I am living in a basement which is kinda nice but is also kinda old and unused for a long time. So.. my only theory is that these little bastards infest my room and got on me while I slept. So now I'm REALLY tweaking the fuck out. This is mostly a rant because I mean... what in the hell, why does this shit keep happening to me, no one else here has gotten ticks in years apparently and I got not one but two (that I know of) in my first two weeks. That being said, if anyone knows how I can for sure rid my living quarters of these creatures or another way besides the obvious to handle the medical side of the situation (that being a doctor's visit) I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

May 22 2008 9:45AM
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R-Bertsch
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that SUCKS dude! i hate that feeling that there might be bugs crawling around on me when im sleeping, even tho it probably happens all the time.
May 22 2008 9:56AM
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king.tubby
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ticks are farking nasty. once, after a long backpacking trip, I found one one my, um, how do i say this, downstairs region, if you get my drift. hurt like a bitch pulling it out
May 22 2008 11:06AM
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blindside
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sorry to hear that....might have to call an exterminator...
May 22 2008 11:10AM
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snwbrdmilf
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I know what it's like to have ticks on yourself. But my scenario was like, fifty times worse. So me and some friends are on the interstate, going somewhere, I forget where. Anyway, our car runs out of gas. Fucking lucky eh? So we sit there for a while, and this cop comes up behind us. The situation gets dealt with, we have to wait for a tow truck. This whole time, I had to pee. Like, real bad. And the tow truck is taking forever. I'm looking at these woods on the side of the road, knowing it's a bad idea. My friends and I deliberate about ticks being in there, and I decide, I'm gonna pee in the woods before I pee my pants. So I walk through some brush, and relieve myself. As soon as I'm pulling my pants up, what do I see? HUNDREDS OF TICKS CRAWLING ALL OVER MY LEGS!! No fucking joke. I freaked the fuck out, ran out of the woods with my pants halfway down, and screamed to my friends. "You fucking liars! I'm covered in ticks! Get them the fuck off!!" And the pull out their lighters, use their fingers for flicking - and by the time we calm down and start looking for whatevers left, I'm standing on the road in my bra and panties. So I get in the car, and me and a friend start checking my body all over. Friends outside checking the clothes. We think we did a pretty good job. Some time went by, we didn't see anymore. I'm sitting in the car, still half naked, wondering where the tow truck is, to take us to wherever. All I wanted was a bathroom so I could check my crotch. The last thing I wanted was a tick in my va jay-jay.

All in all, I was never bit by a tick. So I guess we did a pretty good job getting them off. But I'll tell you, never have I ever been so freaked out. It was intense seeing them all over me.
May 22 2008 11:10AM
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yelsel
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AHHAHAHAHA Im sorry Ashley but the visual I got while reading that was just hilarious. Was the cop still there? Im sure he enjoyed the show.
May 22 2008 11:17AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Ticks are pretty common man, it looks like your in VT? so mayble a little less but we have tons of em down here in PA. They get on you from just walking in the grass outside sometimes, I seriously doubt you have a tick infestation in your house, they usually chill outside. It's no biggie, unless after you pull it out the bitten area gets really red. I've had about two this year also, the normal ones are no problem really it's the deer ticks that carry disease and that's only lyme disease anyway.
Click for larger image Normal tick.

Click for larger imageDeer tick

Click for larger image this is the red bullseye you don't wanna see which could mean lyme disease.

you can read up here I guess.

http://home.ptd.net/~insect/lymetick.html

Odds are though you didn't even have a deer tick, they are about hald the size of a normal tick which is pretty damn small. If you saw that red ass though it was for sure a deer tick.
May 22 2008 11:18AM
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snwbrdmilf
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^ Wow, what makes my story even more fucked up...is they were deer ticks. I was wondering why they had red on them. WOW.

Should I get checked just in case? I never had any spots or anything......
May 22 2008 11:20AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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I had one similiar to that where my gf and I went for a romp in the woods while on a walk. We were standing the whole time and still mostly clothed but I must have stood in a tick nest or something. When we were done I was feeling something crawling on my ankle, I checked and there was a ton of baby ticks crawling about on my ankle and into my sock. I tore off my shoe and sock and kicked serious tick ass until they were all gone, like you I didn't end up getting bit either. When asked about what I was doing with my shoe I told her that I got a thorn in there or something, I mean come on was I gonna freak her out and ruin my chances of any other wild times in the woods?? No sir I think not.
May 22 2008 11:24AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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No trust me I have lots of experience with these fuckers, many bites will be annoying or itchy once you get that tick out. Many more will even get a little red spot and inflamed for a day or two. This is totally normal.

If you develop a big discolored spot or bullseye that hurts then your in trouble. If you weren't even bitten then you don't have to worry at all.
May 22 2008 11:27AM
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snwbrdmilf
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Yeah this was years ago. But thanks for the 411 on ticks :)
May 22 2008 11:29AM
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ax_murderer
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Stand up guy.

I'm diggin' the alliteration. Where you at in VT Motumbo?
May 22 2008 11:43AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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It was a stand up kinda affair altogether.
May 22 2008 11:52AM
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bhill2.0
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I sleep with my window open pretty wide and right next to a patch of woods and I have never gotten a tick. My mom however got a tick and it was carrying limes disease or something. Shit's not good man.
May 22 2008 12:25PM
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doritos
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Oh my GOD that sucks haha, jesus... makes me feel a lot better. And to the guy who had one on his dick... may God have mercy on your soul.

I'm actually not in my home state of VT like my profile suggests (lived in Jericho, near Essex and B-Town) but in PA... where it was so kindly pointed out to me that there are thousands of them. Fan-fucking-tastic haha. That's where I'm at for the rest of the summer so it looks like I'm taking some tick precautions from now on.

Turns out I probably got assaulted at work, seeing as I mostly work outside, and as a result all medical expenses up to and including the antibiotics if I actually end up with lyme disease are covered under worker's comp. I work at a summer resort and they have a Safety Services building, so I'm supposed to go back in a few days for them to check for the bullseye but... they said they seriously doubt it was a deer tick. Told me to wear hardcore bug repellant and check myself every day after work and I should be set. Thanks for the help and the stories haha.
May 22 2008 7:04PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Where at in PA are ya???

They are horrible down here everywhere for sure. Best thing you can do is wear long sleeves and pants of light colors so you can spot them early. Check yourself and your clothes every time your out of the woods or at the end of the day, also I shave my head so that kind of makes it easy to check there.
May 23 2008 8:10AM
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doritos
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I'm working at Woodloch Pines, it's in Hawley/Honesdale about an hour away from Scranton.
May 23 2008 11:07AM
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