I felt something and drug it out with my fingernail. It was pretty flat so I didn't think he'd gotten into me but the next day I had a sore and it wouldn't heal over for a couple days. I mentioned it to Mrs. File who has recently taken up Voodoo developed an interest in essential oils, so she hands me the spellbook the guidebook and says, "Read this", I of course, complied... (you don't want to mess with/tick off voodoo practitioners)
It said "Apply 1 drop of lavender every 5 minutes for 30 minutes".... which we did- (See note above)
I sure smelled puuuuurdy! when I ran to town for some errands...
Anyway- that was last Saturday. On Sunday- I didn't notice anything but it had stopped seeping. On Tuesday night there was just a tiny bump/ scab that had disappeared completely by Thursday.
So it seemed to work, although I still smell a little too Puurdy and have an urge to wear skinny jeans and get a Faux Hawk and some ear gages....
Be vewy careful wid dat stuf!
Keep checking that spot for infection or a rash.
I was just out in a small patch of woods near a creek today for mabe 10 minutes, walk back to the truck,sat down and made a phone call. About a minute into the call I felt something crawling up the back of my neck, and it was a tick. So I get off the call and look down to do a check for more and find 8 more crawling up the front of my shirt! Find 3 more in my hair, more on my vest, 4 crawling the truck seat, 3 on the lath bag and more working their way up my pant legs and the back of my shirt (which I stripped off, sorry to the neighbors for that picture). All total...just shy of 30! Man, I have never felt so infested in my 32 years of surveying. Told the contractor that he needed to clear that area (and drop some napalm) before I would go back there. Brad Ott, this was in Columbus, not too far from your neck of the woods. Got a feeling this year is going to make up in ticks what it was lacking in morels.
You need to get into serious deer tick country if you want to talk seriously about ticks. Those itty bitty little buggers are a plague. They hit you by the hundreds. One time we hopped out of the pickup in a large pasture area for about two minutes. As I turned to get back in I happened to look down and it looked like my jeans were vibrating. Hundreds of those b@st@rds so small you can hardly see them.
I had a very similar experience in Osage Co., OK. Hard to explain the terror when you find hundreds of the little buggers running up your legs.
Been there. It's not fun to look down and your clothes seem to be moving.
I average about 4-6 ticks that are at least starting to dig in on field days. That's after using repellent. If I forget to spray, that average easily doubles. They are extremely bad this year.
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Watch out for the ones with the white dot on there back. I have a fellow surveyor I team up with on larger jobs that is allergic to beef now, due to a bite from one of those. They are carrying some nasty bacteria. It took several emergency room trips before they diagnosed it.
Yeah, there is at least two kinds of ticks in your area. Those little bitty bas urds are the worst. I hate ticks and was glad to get out of there. The people are great, the ticks (**&&^%$#(*)!
My wife is allergic to beef. Her allergist says it is likely from a tick bite she got last year.
I Have had thousands of ticks on me over the years
Live in south Jersey on edge of pinelands
I have found that the quickest way to heal the bite
is to douse the hole with peroxide
and do not scratch the bite as that will only
start the problem all over again
Thanks to all. :-/
I have not stopped itching since I read this post.
And I'm in the OFFICE!
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