"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
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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.

Important thing is to get ticks off as soon as possible
and if flu like symtoms develope, seek out treatment
as soon as possible. RMSTF becomes more unforgiving
as treatment is delayed and is sometimes fatal.

basilisk

... and don't pull the ticks out (the heads break off making RMSTF
probability higher). Use a hot, burned out match, vaseline, or other such
method to get the tick to back out. Then stomp the snot out of it.

Glad to hear you are feeling better. That's some nasty stuff, had a
friend in high school who was down with it for two weeks, really took a
lot
out of him -- and he was still young and immortal.

Thanks

I vaguely remember being young, immortal and tough, but not anymore,
now that I think about it, I don't miss any of the three.
They come with their own problems.

basilisk