Monday, July 30, 2012

Tick- Finally Got Us

So- when moving here, people kept warning me about ticks and many would say, "Oh, no worries, the chances of you getting one is so small." Well, I guess that it wasn't small enough.  On Friday, I noticed a very tiny thing on Gabby's neck.  I thought that it was a scab of some sort and I tried to get it off, but she kept moving, so I figured that it could fall of on it's own.  Then later in the evening, I noticed that this "scab" had doubled in size and I of course panic.  Adam had just left to run in a 10 mile race and there was no way that I was taking it out on my own.  Gross. 

So I threw the kids in the car and went to Adam.  He hadn't started the race yet, so I had him pull it out.  So Gross. Now we just have to watch it and make sure that she doesn't get sick from it.  Of course, I documented it- nothing bloody, just the small creature stuck in Gabby's neck... so would be a vampire tick? Hmmm.... Gabby might be turning into a vampire- Twilight all over again, great.

 See how small it is?  They are so gross and I don't like how hard it is to detect.

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