The Tick Story
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (161452)
Boise, Idaho
May 21, 2024 8:07pm CST
Oh, ugh! Just remembering back to this day after @GardenGerty's story makes me shake all over. (I also got ringworm once from holding a chicken.) But, I was wandering around my grandparent's place and got a tick. It was only about 5 or 6 I think. Maybe younger even. The tick was stuck on the inside of my thigh. Each of the adults involved seemed to have a different idea to get rid of the thing but, Grandma won out as she usually did. They poured the turpentine all over and it ran up too high getting into my private area. IT BURNED SO BAD I CRIED!! I will never forget that occurrence in all of my life. I was sure thankful to be rid of the tick though.
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@GardenGerty (158350)
• United States
22 May
Yea, they use lots of "methods" not all of them safe. Both ticks I have had this week have not been fully attached. I pulled them off. Probably not the best thing. I got ringworm once from sitting in the grass in a park that had lots of goose poop.
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@GardenGerty (158350)
• United States
28 May
@celticeagle Yeah, that is where the parasite was living, I guess.
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
23 May
They all thought their idea was best. I paid the price.
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
24 May
@LadyDuck .......Good instructions. Thanks. I wish my family had used those.
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@LadyDuck (463155)
• Switzerland
23 May
@celticeagle There is only one safe method to remove a tick. Grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible with a pair of tweezers and pull firmly outward. I have removed several attached to the neck of my cat.
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@wolfgirl569 (98012)
• Marion, Ohio
22 May
Glad you got it removed. But that would burn
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
23 May
I am too. It sure sticks in my memory.
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@just4him (311404)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 May
@celticeagle I'm sure it would.
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@LindaOHio (161648)
• United States
22 May
That's a bad tick story. I would have been freaking out. I had a tick quite a few years ago. It attached itself on the inside of my arm near the elbow. My husband got it off and put it in a jar. I was freaking out "Get it off! Get it off!". I hate them. Have a good day.
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
23 May
I don't think I've ever heard a 'good' tick story. They are ugly little mites.
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
24 May
@LindaOHio .......Fleas are awful creatures.
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@LindaOHio (161648)
• United States
23 May
@celticeagle I've had fleas try to dig into my arms too. I used to get the brush from a bottle of correction fluid and cover them with it.
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@celticeagle (161452)
• Boise, Idaho
23 May
Nice to be rid of it but not nice the way it was removed.
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@sallypup (58732)
• Centralia, Washington
22 May
Poor you. I hope an adult comforted you. When I was a kid in high school my very long furred dog got ticks.....heck on wheels finding them. My Mom took a match to the ticks- I think the dog had one on his nose. I can't remember how we got that one.
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