After I read this post the day it was posted, for a short time I thought - I guess I was lucky because I didn't get any ticks on me. So later that evening I settled in for some TV with a bowl of popcorn and a beer and after I finished the popcorn all of a sudden I see one crawling on my T-shirt!
OH CR*P! I jump off the couch and flick my shirt so that the tick falls into the now empty bowl - Oh GROSS! and my kid gets all freaked out "What's wrong! what's wrong?"
Hey Saamantha have you ever seen a tick?
"NO and I DON'T WANT TO - keep that AWAY FROM ME"
I took it over to the sink and managed to squash it with the end of a kitchen utensil.
Man those suckers are hard shelled! I guess it hadn't got to me yet since there was no blood in it.
This was my first and hopefully LAST experience with a tick.
I worked with someone who almost died because he had lyme disease and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. Months and months went by and he kept getting worse, in & out of hospitals, liver problems, pains in his joints, brain fogginess, weakness, etc etc.
Additional info on lymes:
http://www.lymediseaseblog.com/lyme-disease-symptoms/