Ticks Please read

[MAKAI]

Man, that's awful, wishing her a speedy recovery.
I've been on a doxycylene treatment for 3 months for a skin rash. May ask to stay on it....just in case.
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[stripermaineiac]

I saw a poster at the local Co-Op about putting out bird feeders to draw more birds to your home as they will eat tics,chiggers an such cuttin down the chance of tic bites an such. sounds like a good idea.

[Raven]

the only birds that will eat and control ticks effectively
around a home are chickens and guinie fowl

[nightfighter]

Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers. She has improved enough over the past 24 hours for the hospital to release her and she is resting comfortably at her mother's house here in town. (She will be here tomorrow as she has already texted a request for a certain dinner...) Continued meds are in order and we will have a family meeting to review what lifestyle changes she will be urged to make in consideration of her continued health. I have not been totally debriefed on what the doctors said late today, but I will be. She did read this thread this morning and I send you my thanks as it made an impact on her, witnessed in a text she sent me....

She is out of the woods, but there is work to do. Do your part for yourself and your loved ones, please.....

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

Do whatever you can to protect yourselves and your families. Tick checks must be a part of our outdoor lives. Lyme and the three other tick borne diseases are no joke!

Our luck ran out this past week as my 22 year old daughter has been hospitalized since Sunday night, when she spiked a 103.5 degree fever. It has been hell to watch your child go through something like this. Took a few days to diagnose, during which she endured a spinal tap to rule out meningitis and encephalitis. Never saw a tick or a bite. But she has Lyme, and may have more of those other diseases tick carry. We won't know for another week. She has turned a corner and is much improved this evening. Antibiotics are working. But she was very sick and it scared the hell out of me.

So please implement a plan for you and your family...... checks, spray, appropriate clothing, and being aware.

With that kind of a fever, it sounds like babesiosis. You're right, it's no joke. Symptoms very similar to malaria. Intravenous antibiotics usually knock it out. Good luck to you and her. My wife had it and Lyme. The saving grace is babesiosis is rapid onset, so they discovered Lyme very early on.

[Renegade6]

Best wishes for fast healing and full recovery Scary stuff for sure

[ProfessorM]

I agree with mike. Bab. Is what I most likely had with a very high fever and a headache that morphine could barely relieve. Dr. Numbskull gave me my diagnosis and he was pretty much right on the money. A long course of antibiotics and hopefully she will be back to normal. Lots of rest too but that is a given cause you have no energy for a month or 2.
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[redlite]

Glad to hear she is doin better. Lyme sucks. My wife went thru the same thing as ross s daughter just before we got married. They thought she was gonna die and that she might have a brain tumor. Did the spianal tap before even checkin for lyme.
Pulled a tick off me for the first time in my life from under my waistband last week. Waitin to see what comes of it
My wife just came home from peditrcian a half hour ago and my 3 yr old daughter now has lyme for the second time. Had a rash on the back of her head that was itchy and hurtin her.
Its crazy cause we are over vigilant about spray and tick checks on both kids but still failed. Amazing when we consider how many people probably take zero precautions and never have any issues. Our shat luck
Wife is freakin out and wants to move somewhere with no ticks. She is an NP and is constantly pullin ticks off people which doesnt help fear factor
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[RickBomba]

Ugh, that sucks Ross. They did the same thing to me when I was stuck in Newton Wellesley last fall for 6 days. I had a spinal tap, all sorts of biopsies, etc...

We always spray up with heavy deet before going outside...even if it's just in someone's lawn.

Matty said they drop from the trees overhanging his extruder plant.

You can never be too careful. Best of luck for a speedy recovery for your daughter, Ross.
Rick

[Finaddict]

So glad she is on the mend Ross ... crazy, crazy stuff these ticks are.

[tattoobob]

Wow Ross was this after I saw you Sunday? I hope the best for your daughter and Julie and I are praying for you guys

Ticks are my biggest fear

[Got Stripers]

Hoping for the best, golfing a lot now, I'm always looking each time I miss the fairway; which seems to be more then usual lately.

[N.ShoreFisher]

Sorry to hear my friend. Best wishes to her for a speedy recovery and let me know if I can be of any help.