Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2005 - 05:57:43 PM »
My biggest phobia is parasites. A couple of years a go I was biten by a brown recluse spider. Right on my stomach. It bit me while I was sleeping. The bite (which I did'nt know was yet) looked like a pimple at first.
Then my skin and just underneath it was just a oozing gooey mess. Man the pain. They're venom literally melts tissue and the infection gets bigger.
the Doctor gave me these giant horse pill sized anti biotics.
It was a pretty scary episode.
 :stomp:....run...it's a spider!!!
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2005 - 07:32:49 PM »
Topcat, my partner's wife was bitten by a brown recluse  while sleeping too.
She thought it was a mosquito bite. She is a beautiful gal, mother of two boys, loves to dance-
and she almost lost her leg.
Dem spiders iz scary.

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2005 - 07:33:10 PM »
MEK...That doesn't surprise me!     :eeksmall:

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2005 - 09:25:30 PM »
I like snakes.....  Hate spiders.

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2005 - 09:42:23 PM »
 :iagree: I'd rather jump a cliff than touch a spider. Ugly brastard things they are...... :gripe: :ack:
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2005 - 09:48:36 PM »
NZ, watched that aussie guy one night. You have some of the scariest spiders on earth down there. :eekbig:
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2005 - 09:50:50 PM »
NZ, watched that aussie guy one night. You have some of the scariest spiders on earth down there. :eekbig:
Thats in Australia mate, NZ is a good 3 to 4 hours away!  :laughup: :laughing:

We have NO poisonous creatures/insects etc here.
Australia got them all, crooks, spiders, snakes (which we have none of) and about 2/3 of the country covered in soil and dirt.  :laughing: ;D
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2005 - 10:44:31 AM »
Sorry to hear about that, Old_Moparz.
Fortunately for the upper Midwest, the worst thing we have here are ticks.  I'm glad we don't have any poisonous insects or anything like that here.   Those brown recluse spiders can do a number on someone.  I remember photos from about a year ago someone posted on here of what happened to his hand after being bitten by one.  Gangrene anyone? :ack: 
As for the rest, I think snakes are pretty cool.  I can remember finding a rare snake for Northeastern WI while a friend and I were walking along a river on his property.  I can't remember what it was called, but it had two "horns" on its head that made it look like a bull's head on a snake's body. :grinyes:
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2005 - 07:55:42 PM »
I'd rather jump a cliff than touch a spider. Ugly brastard things they are...... :gripe: :ack:

 :iagree: No ticks here in the desert, but we've got black widow spiders and brown recluse spiders. We also have scorpions and western diamondback rattlesnakes! :ack:
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« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2005 - 09:09:40 PM »
:iagree: No ticks here in the desert, but we've got black widow spiders and brown recluse spiders. We also have scorpions and western diamondback rattlesnakes! :ack:
:ack: YUCK! Don't mind snakes or scorpions, just hate spiders.  ;D
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2005 - 10:59:04 PM »
Hey NZ, have you ever watched Fear Factor? there was an episode not too long ago when they put the contestants in a clear see though coffin and then they pored tarantulas all over their body while they were in their bathing suits. :ack: :grinno:....eek! :stomp:
Would you do that NZ for 50 grand? :banghead:
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #26 on: April 03, 2005 - 01:19:43 PM »
Did anyone happen to see the Fear Factor spoof on the Dave Chappelle show?

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #27 on: April 03, 2005 - 01:22:09 PM »
No  :dontknow:

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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2005 - 01:23:14 PM »
She went back to the eye doctor for a follow up visit to see if the attached tick part was creating a problem. It's not too bad, but they still want to remove it so it doesn't get infected. My wife & I agree, but my wife said the eye doctor freaked out my daughter when she cleaned the tick, and her eye, with alcohol. (Good thing they went to med school.) She screamed over it & refused to cooperate for the rest of the visit. I can't blame her though, what the hell do you think alcohol in your eye will do? Their answer to her not letting them examine her eye is to put her under to do it. That sounds pretty extreme & we're not too happy about that. We'll take her back to her pediatrician for another opinion, & we also know my daughter is okay with that doctor. She'll probably have a fit in the parking lot when she sees she's at the alcohol in the eye supplier.
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Re: Ticks - Love to Annihilate Them
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2005 - 04:50:09 PM »
Awwwwwe, the poor sweet thing.  I don't blame her for being so afraid.