[pct-l] Fwd: TICK ALERT

[Toby Maxwell]

haha very nice anecdote.  Thanks as well Diane, I'll keep an eye out for
both kinds of ticks, in new york there's only deer ticks to worry about so
thats great knowledge.  I'll keep in mind that I shouldn't have a screaming
fit unless I find a group of ticks that coordinated a smiley face pattern on
my butt or something :)

-Toby

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Jason Moores <jmmoores1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What freaked me out the most was that not five minutes before this Molasses
> had headed over to the bathroom to take a shower. The next thing I know
> there is a young woman running from the same place, pants half down,
> screaming her head off. My first thought was that there was a man in the
> woman's bath, messin with my gal.
>
> We'll just say that the tick was on her hip, for decorum.
>
> As I recall, my teasing of the tick didn't last long before I gave you back
> the tweezers, tried to sooth her one more time and then finally saying,
> "Just pull it out." Sandy was so upset that I was actually worried that she
> would go into shock!
>
> Molasses walked out a moment later drying her hair and piped, " hey, what's
> goin on?" How could she have missed all of the screaming?
>
> Jackass
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh wow, I forgot about that.  Hell, that was just on her butt cheek, not
> in
> > any tight place, but she really freaked.
> >
> > So we're at Lake Morena not far from the big bathroom when we hear this
> > blood curdling scream from inside.  Sandy, a young gal from Portland who
> had
> > started with Gramma Lissa and I at the border, comes running out
> screaming
> > bloody murder and hardly able to tell us what's up.  she's got a tick
> > embedded just a bit, not engorged or anything, on her butt, or was it her
> > upper thigh.  I'm getting old and forget even something as important as
> > this.  I know she had to drop her drawers a bit to have us look at it,
> and
> > she was glad to have us look at it as it scared the living hell out of
> her.
> >  This was just shortly after you and I had met, Jackass, and there we are
> > preforming minor surgery in a tender place on a 23 year old woman who can
> > hardly stop crying.  You were great trying to tease it out, but I think I
> > finally just grabbed it with the tweezers and gave it a good pull.  Poor
> > Sandy, she didn't last much longer on the trail after that.  I don't know
> if
> > it was the tick, or just the thought of having two old geezers performing
> > surgery on her again.
> >
> > What a scene!
> >
> > Shroomer
> >
> >
> >>
> >
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