Gross Picture of the Day
Last night, my 6 yr. old son asked me to look at his back. Something was bothering him and he couldn't remember what had happened.
This is what I saw:
Lovely tick, huh? Just looking at the picture makes me cringe. I had to pull it out with tweezers, which was no easy task! The tick put up quite a fight! Raymond took it like a trooper, no tears shed. We saved it (in case Raymond gets sick later and we need to get it checked) and he wants to bring it to school for show and tell. I don't think so...
This is what I saw:
Lovely tick, huh? Just looking at the picture makes me cringe. I had to pull it out with tweezers, which was no easy task! The tick put up quite a fight! Raymond took it like a trooper, no tears shed. We saved it (in case Raymond gets sick later and we need to get it checked) and he wants to bring it to school for show and tell. I don't think so...
posted by Notsocranky Yankee at 9:15 AM
10 Comments:
oooh. Tick season. Yeesh.
We've got the mosquitoes. yay for summer.
Heidi: We're in black fly season right now. Mosquitoes next. It sucks!
urgh. i've never been bitten by a tick.
my uncle used to burn them off his skin with a cigarette.
your way sounds better.
but not by much.
hope your son doesn't get anything.
yeharr
BP: I used to think the way to remove a tick was to burn it's ass to make it let go. (In fact we did that last summer to one that was on our dog.) But I read about tick removal online since this one was burroughed in so well and burning was not recomended. Another technique is to suffocate it by smothering it with vaseline, but I read that the tick has enough oxygen to finish the blood-sucking anyway. Nice stuff, huh?
oh god
i think i just threw up a little
gross
Thank you.
I am now afraid of ticks.
I used to get ticks in the brush along the central coast...I HATE THEM
YUCK
Growing up in Missouri, I've seen my share of ticks. This one is impressively red. I'm glad you read about removing it first. I believed the quickly-extinguished-match-burning theory, too, under the impression that tweezers might separate the body from the head. Smart of you to save it. I had a friend with Lyme disease as a kid; very unpleasant.
Yick! Glad the tick came out whole. My daughter had one years ago. I grabbed the tweezers and only got half of it. Followed by a long lecture from the doc who got to get the rest out.
The picture should be gross enough for show and tell! lol
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I am neurotic about parasites. *shudder* I would have been in hysterics, no matter which side I was on (unless I was the tick).
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