discovering a tick engorged on the scalp of your kid. Now see back when i was her age and my brothers were her age we would have one or two ticks attached to us a summer. never a big deal. to us.
and back then Lyme disease was just a deer tick problem and those were tiny tiny tiny buggers.
But i don't know how big they get when engorged. Based on the size of this thing, about 10mm long and the location or lack of a defined anal groove it really probably is just a common dog tick, nothing really to be worried about. Downside, didn't quite get all the mouth parts out. The head pulled off (my fault) and i did manage to get all but one small tiny part of the mouthparts out of her scalp. She was a trooper. Amazing. Just read something that makes me feel a bit better, more convinced that its a "harmless" dog tick. not that they are harmless... but still...
that and everyone seems to be getting sick...
all fun stuff...
Well that was supposed to be posted last night, but i tried to use the wireless in the house. It didn't work. It never wanted to give me an IP address. Anyone know how to make it give me an address so i can roam free - this 5' cat5 cable is a bit restraining.
Her tick 'spot' has cleared up.
Chatting with my dad this morning he reminded me of a summer i refused to take my hat off for a couple days on end... when i finally did... BIG tick... v big tick stuck to my scalp...
Well its getting pretty insane.
but its all good - life is good...
esp when the littlest has climbed into a Radio Flyer Town and Country wagon saying loudly "Daddy Do it" wanting me to pull her around in the basement... oops now she's back out... and headed upstairs.
Hitting publish...
prolly no riding today - but that's okay - its too cold.
-G
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If whoever setup the router was being cautious, they would have limited the availability to get an IP to specific 48-bit hardware addresses. This prevents the neighbor's from scavenging your bandwith. So you might need to get admin access to the router.
i need to log in with a WPA/WEP key and i got the right code from him it just pokes around... timing out waiting for address... might have to look more into it...
OH HELL NO. Ticks give me the heebie-jeebies...
Blech.
yeah - now flatman, imagine spending a while online looking at pictures of all sorts of ticks trying to figure out what species the one was that stuck into your kid's scalp...
I was suprised i didn't have Tick dreams...
i sort of get the heebie-jeebies on the right brain but the left brain says whats the big deal... internal conflict...
i guess for flatman's sake it was good i didn't link the pics ;)
ticks are creepy
I pull them off my dogs all the time
occasionally off the wife
seldom do I find them on the children
funny when the dog gets a tick in the winter
but heck
this is DC
I can be swatting mosquitoes while I shovel snow
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