On May 31, 8:01*am, "basilisk" wrote:
Watch out for those ticks, they are out and about and
spreading disease.

I've spent the last ten days with Rocky Mountain Spotted
Tick Fever.
The best way I can describe it is; the worst flu you ever had
X5.

I managed to eat the first meal I had in over a week
yesterday, today I feel almost back to normal with the
exception of being very weak.

The cure is simple, a short course of doxycycline
antibiotics and time.


Hope the cure works quickly. Our 32 year old son had the disease
when he was about 13 years old. It took a few weeks to get a
diagnosis because it kept making short term runs at him and then he
would be OK for a while. But each attack was, as you said, the worst
case of flu he had (and has) ever experienced. And each attack
knocked him down a little further. They tried the oral antibiotics
and it screwed up his stomach. So then they put him in the hospital
for a round of IV. That worked but he was susceptible to severe,
migraine-class headaches for several months afterward. Finally shook
it completely.

RonB