#Tick Bite

[bookpirate32]

MY DAY:

Dentist (wanted to die, don’t like hands in my mouth)

Starbucks (yay!! Snackie treat for being good at the dentist 😋 yummy plain bagel with cream cheese and an iced coffee)

Nap (🥱😴)

Nap some more (😴😴😴)

Wake up and think about Clancy

Interact with Tumblr users about Clancy

Put on my favorite pj pants (Bluey themed, bought them at Target in the men’s section)

Start writing RITN flower analysis

My friend calls me with great news (her doctor is being Not Useless For Once! Yay!)

REALIZE I HAVE TICK!!!!!!

Go into panic mode because if there was one thing my parents told me once I started dating my outdoorsy boyfriend (now husband) it was to Fear Lyme Disease because I am already disabled and chronically ill which means Lyme Disease would = my untimely departure from this world

Go over to my friends house

She removes the tick which had hunkered down in my brand new Bluey men’s PJ pants from Target while I was at one of my other friends houses yesterday (she lives in a woodsy area)

The tick was fresh and probably had been attached to me for less than 10 minutes because of the way he was moving and also his blood content

Come home in different pj pants that my friend lent me

Take a very hot bubble bath Just In Case

I am now sitting in my Very Hot Bubble Bath writing this sweating because of the hot water and also nauseous because getting bit by a tick is my worst nightmare

[suitemadameblue]

I'll add on here and say if you're going to be spending a lot of time outside in an area with ticks, consider treating the clothes you'll be wearing with permethrin.

It's commonly used as a tick repellant on clothing and on dogs and kills ticks on contact without being harmful to humans in the dosage used for treatment.

You can either buy the commercially available stuff and spray your clothing yourself or send them to a company like Insect Shield which can treat them for you. If you treat them yourself the treatment is good for 6 weeks or 6 washings in general (whichever comes first) while a commercial treatment lasts significantly longer.

Safety note: permethrin is highly toxic to cats when it is wet so if you have cats, keep them away from the clothing while it is drying and if they do get in contact with it, take them to the vet immediately.

I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

[plebeiangoth]

Just pulled a tick out of a nast bite, which I must have picked up from the garden earlier

Please be extremely careful after being outside to check for ticks, remove ticks immediately and entirely, clean any bites, and go straight to the doctor if you get a bullseye, worsening rash, flu-like symptoms or joint pain. Lyme disease fucking sucks, I stupidly ignored it for a month as a kid once and I didn't recover well once I completed antibiotics and had post-treatment lyme disease syndrome for a long while.

The bite I have mostly looks like I did a rough job removing the tick and pinched my skin too hard trying to grab the tick. But I scrubbed it with iodine and put some PRID on it (I don't know if that helps, it's just a thing my mom told me to do with tick bites and it seems to make the bite heal quickly). It was surely attached for less than 24 hours (5 max, I imagine) and there's no rings. I think it'll be fine but I'll monitor it

[tpup]

I latch onto tgirl tits like I am a tick. you have to remove me with tweezers in a steady upward motion or else my teeth will break off inside of you and until you've done that i will be sucking with all the might in my desperate little body

[rjshope]

revenge is sweet😏

[laurellala-comics]

Ok, so we know that after Phoenix saw news articles about how Edgeworth had become a ruthless prosecutor but before Phoenix became a lawyer himself, he wrote letters to Edgeworth to try and get through to him and convince him that what he was doing was wrong. Do we think Edgeworth read the letters? Do we think he kept them? Realistically, I think he read the first one because he recognized Nick's name and was curious what he had to say, and then got angry and threw out all the subsequent letters without looking at them. But imagine if he had kept them, and after reuniting with Nick, went through them. I feel like that would be a good opportunity for drama.

I also wonder if Nick thinks Edgeworth read all his letters or not. Like if he said certain things in the letter and assumes Edgeworth knows them when they meet, it could lead to interesting miscommunication. Obviously you could do this in a ship context, but I think it'd be compelling from a friendship point of view as well. If Nick had emphasized how much respect he had for Edgeworth and how much he believes in his ability to do good in the world and how he cares deeply about helping Edgeworth realize that, and all Edgeworth does is tell him to go away and that he never wants to see him again, that that feels a lot more crushing if Nick thinks that Edgeworth read about him being vulnerable and honest and then just didn't care.

Honestly though, I feel like after not getting a response for awhile Nick would assume Edgeworth wasn't reading the letters and start getting pissy, and only continue to send the letters for the principle of the matter (Edgeworth will have to see the letter in his mailbox after all and be reminded of Nick's existence even if he doesn't read them). I could see him using the letters more as a way of shouting into the void about his feelings with no expectation of them being read. I imagine the first letter was a very mild and kind plea that Edgeworth remember his old friend and who he used to be, and then 10 letters later it's just one page with "bitch" written in big letters because Nick is So Done. In which case, it would actually be so much funnier if Edgeworth DID read all of them from the beginning. Maybe this is why he acted the way he did when Nick met him again.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: insect

[rapidhighway]

No seriously check yourself for ticks. I feel like a make this psa every year but everyone always ignores the fact that they've been hanging around tall grass or bushes. Check your body, check your siblings and kids who won't do it as carefully as they should, and stay safe!!

[doodleloopsy]

has anyone ever thought about the fact that a running gag with Captain Hook is literally just triggering his PTSD over and over?

[catwouthats]

“How can this many people simply vote for Trump in the first place?”

✨Gaslighting✨

And

✨Teaching themselves apathy because they have been pushed to the brink and are only focused on their own survival and think that this guy will give it because he

gaslight themmmm✨

[stardustizuku]

Rozemyne: I’ll fight even the gods if it means protecting Ferdinand!

Mestionora: Your little shumil almost killed a god, you know?

Rozemyne: Oh fuck, I’m so sorry, we are never coming back here again, I am so incredibly sorry, oh my god.

[yellow-artz]

Ugliness of curiosity

[tickfleato]

see normally when cats bite you when you're petting them it's because they're overstimulated and want you to stop. But vinny will bite you while actively enthusiastically trying to get you to continue petting him. like tail lashing clearly overexcited but he wants you to pet him so fucking bad. very strange animal

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i came home from my three day work trip and my parents were like ianto has a weird growth below his ear he’s had it since you left and it’s tan and sort of long and black at the base and it keeps getting bigger and bigger can you take a look?

i’ll give you three guesses as to what it was and the first two don’t count