Tricky Tickey
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Guys, this is one of the comments from my article on Hubpages.com The Hushed Truth about Lyme Disease: My Story, Part 1. The story is so unique, animated, and yet, tragic I felt I must share it. The gentlemen who left the comment is a regular contributor to Hubpages. He shared his own experience with a Lyme victim. Here is his story:
"Ms. Arkiehinny, always liked that name, lost the argument naming my daughter. I'll send prayers out for you. I have seen the untreated side of Lyme from a hunting buddy. We hog and deer hunted northern California every year and one particular year the deer ticks were unbelievably prevalent. We would get literally 100s on us every day while hunting the 3rd fork of the EEL river. At the end of the day it was dump your pockets and jump into the fridged waters and get naked and do the monkey thing checking each other where we couldn't reach or see. I picked probably 50 off his back every day. It was amazing, I told him we needed to just say @#$* it and go home, but after waiting all year for vacation and a 12 hour drive he wanted to stay. I personally can roll naked in a tick bed and sit in the mosquito infested areas like swamp lands in Missouri and never get bit or never had a tick latch on, but raked a bunch off of me, I must taste really bad. One guy said it was because I smoked and he started bumming cigarettes to test his theory, it didn't work. Anyway Lou is 55 and now in a lock down nursing home so he can't wonder off. He was diagnosed with Lyme but they fall short of admitting it to give him a multitude of symptoms and the onset of long and short term memory loss, as well as many other neurological symptoms. It was a case of a lot too late for him as well as a mass of large red whelps on his hide. By day 2 of 7 I just about begged him to go home and he refused, I wish I had taken a picture of his stubborn ***.
Hopefully he is a worst case scenario due to the shear number of bites. On the morning of the 3rd day 6 of 8 went home. Lou refused and I still had zero bites, never got one the whole trip. This was in 1989 he was a youngster of 34 and bullet proof, when I left California in 1994 he was pushing 40 and on disability, my last trip to California was in 2000 and he was in the nursing home. I went and saw him 3 days over a two week stay and he recognized me on the 2nd visit and we had a normal talk about where he was and why. on the last visit he didn't recognize me. I started calling him every day and some days he knew and others he didn't and as time went on he just didn't any more.
We should have left and he should have seen a doctor while they could appreciate the huge number of sores that covered him. Something to take seriously" 50 Caliber from Hubpages.com Status: Approved
Excellent input...but a tragedy for sure.
-------------------- Early Disseminated LD- 2010. Currently doing acupuncture and yoga. Negative Igenex (IND & Pos Bands) ISSUES AFTER: Tendonitis, letter reversal, Low immune system. PREVENTION:SaltC,Iodine,Humaworm, Chiropractic. Posts: 1013 | From In a van down by the river. | Registered: Jun 2010
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That's really horrible. Happens everyday in America and elsewhere.
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17hens
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Oh my goodness! I can't even believe it! Just makes me cry!
Poor, poor man. They just put him in a nursing home and didn't find a doctor who could help him?
Terrible, horrible, criminal!
-------------------- "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalms 73:26
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Tricky Tickey
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It's like he just laid down to die. He seemingly just took the word of his doc who was a member of the good ole boys club. Now he's 'gone'....still home, but nobody is home.
-------------------- Early Disseminated LD- 2010. Currently doing acupuncture and yoga. Negative Igenex (IND & Pos Bands) ISSUES AFTER: Tendonitis, letter reversal, Low immune system. PREVENTION:SaltC,Iodine,Humaworm, Chiropractic. Posts: 1013 | From In a van down by the river. | Registered: Jun 2010
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