scruffy said
my mother got erlichia off a tick a couple years ago.  

went right to the edge of killing her;  she had to be medivacked.  

Christ!

Bugz on My Daughter's Nugz.... Nugz meaning chubby thigh, in this instance.

Jebus!

Had one on my areola.

Novocaine, That Aussie Asshole said
fuck me sideways. the ticks in australia are relavtively harmless in my experience. never heard of someone getting one attached to their dicks. 

ive had one on my shoulder before. but theres no story there lol

There ain't gone be no sequel,
This here is insect evil
Every one of em flies
Every one of us cries
Everybody must die

What I have learned is that the internet is full of endless useful information, but the old saying still rings true:

Don't believe everything you read.

I say this because the internet claims that there haven't been any reported cases of Lyme originating in Colorado. When we took our little girl to the ER doctor, who by the graces of God or whomever had studied Lyme in West Virginia for years, she verifief that it is extremely rare, but cases HAVE been reported. Lyme is one of the most undiagnosed problems out there, and many say that all of us have been exposed to it in one way or another. 

Anyway, many sites will say that mosquitoes cannot transmit Lyme like a tick, because the spirochetes that infect you die inside a mosquito's gut in two hours. However, there is still that two hour window, and with as many mosquito bites that were tattooed on my daughter that week, I say there is a huge liklihood of it being the transmitter. Other sites will back me up, saying that Lyme can be spread through mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and possibly even our own bodily fluids. Which is terrifying, and no, I am not a hypochondriac. I went over a decade without seeing a doctor or dentist, so it takes a lot to put me on alert medically.

They say that Lyme could be responsible for things as far ranging as fibromyalgia, Grave's disease, and multiple sclerosis. Same with cannabinoid deficiency, but that's a chat for another day lol

So Colorado has gotten over two years worth of rain already this year, in an unusually wet spell that has flooded many surrounding areas. We had a sudden influx of mosquito swarms a couple weeks back, due to the constant wetness. The local Wal Mart ran out of citronella, calamine lotion, and Off! Sprays. It was bizarre. We were being eaten alive by a freak migration of monsters that you rarely ever see here, in this dry ass state. I am betting, by the powers of common sense and deduction, that this is what gave my girl the Lyme disease.

Around 2011, my wife and I both noted weird clicking noises from within our eardrums. 

The internet said, straight up, that it was IMPOSSIBLE to contract ear mites from pets. Well, our lovable cat Vegas was crusted up with ear mites. And he was sleeping and sharing a pillow with us nightly. We gave him treatment and cleared it up, but our clicking persisted. No pain, no itching, just an occasional bout of strange noises in our heads for days. I remember working til three or four AM and thinking that I had some weird fluid build up or something.

Nope. It was fucking cat ear mites. My wife was fortunate in that her parasite either died or moved on, but mine were persistent for like three weeks. It was a weird sensation, especially after we figured out that there were live creatures munching whatever they were munching, in our earholes. I tried several remedies that didn't work, until a girl gave me the advice of tilting my head and filling my ear with some kind of oil that I cant recall now, then straightening up and draining the goop into a cotton ball.

It worked instantly. 

So don't believe everything you read, and always seek your own truths. There are faaar too many variables that accompany illnesses.

The swarm is coming, the swarm is coming..,

krunkazphuk said

Old Mr Dangerous said  
The swarm is coming, the swarm is coming..,

The Great Texas Mosquito Festival happens a block away from my former apartment, and they even have a giant inflatable mosquito named 'Willie Man-chew.' Summer there is like The Purge; you lock yourself in at dusk or take your chances.

This is... madness....