[pct-l] Fwd: TICK ALERT

[Alley Kitten]

A newbie lurker here. I've never done a hike-thru (though I love reading all
the valuable information and stories).

I live in SoCal (in fact, not far from Vasquez Rocks)... and, I've got to
say: the past two years have been HORRIBLE when it comes to ticks. I've got
to say, one of the best things we've ever bought was a little spoon thing
called, "Ticked-Off." Way quicker and cleaner than any tweezers I've ever
used. I've not had to use it on me (knock on wood), only the dogs. But, it's
a god-send when removing ticks.

--Alleykitten

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:25 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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