tick...tock...tick...tock...TICK!!

[Guest guest]

Well, its 3:52 am here and I was just awakened by feeling a tick drilling

into my shoulder blade. The wife got it out with tweezers, including

the head.

What a way to wake up, especially after spending years reading this

thread and all its posts on Lyme. We rescued a little dog about a

month ago that had ticks and now is being treated for ehrlichiosis

with doxy. She and our other two dogs had a frontline treatment a few

weeks ago, maybe that's why the tick jumped ship off of a dog onto me.

So we dumped some rubbing alcohol on the spot, and then applied some

of Barb's famous recipe cream (triple antibiotic, antifungal and

corticosteroid combo). The only antibiotics I have is some ampicillin,

so I took one 500mg pill, and will take one every 6 hours for the next

few days but the 'experts' say the tick needs to be attached for 24

hours or longer to transmit the lyme bugs. I suppose I could have

'borrowed' some of the dog's doxy, but I didn't think about it until now.

Any preventative recommendations from the Lyme experts on this list

would be appreciated.

Last year we rescued a kitten and then both of us got ringworm, lol....

No good deed goes unpunished!! Time to go back to sleep...

Jerry