35 ticks! Gives me the willies.
I live in the center of lyme disease country. All of us have had it. I have been very sick with it a couple of times. If you are bit your should get the high dose of doxycycline at least. My SIL gives blood and they found his lyme. He did not even know he was sick. Very banal symptoms, Headaches, lethargy, and other symptoms, but I felt like I was going to die. They have identified 8 different diseases that ticks can carry. The notion that it has to be on you for 24-36 hours has been disproven by the experts. Now they say 10 minutes but, doctors are sticking with the earlier teachings. The doctor that discovered Lyme worked at Yale and he is now at Harvard. One of the physicians in the office where I go teaches the Lyme course at Harvard so I feel like I have the most current teaching available to me. He told me a bout a case in their office where a 19 year old male was having dangerous issues with his heart. It turned out to be Lyme. The test is notorious for false negatives. Many walk-ins around here just treat you with 2 weeks of antibiotics to be on the safe side. The ticks that carries the disease are the tinny ones. They say most people never even know they were bitten.. There is a telltale bullseye rash around the bite but, many people don't get that. My son had rings over his whole body 15 years ago. 3 doctors in a hospital ER had no idea what it was and sent him home. Thankfully my doctors office knew exactly what it was. Don't ignore symptoms that occur within 3-30 days.
hope it gets to eat plenty of mice and chipmunks, wish it could climb trees...
