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I just found another tick on me.......on my leg. It's the first time I've walked in months on our grounds with my dog.
I even did a tick check when I got home. This, after tucking my jeans in my socks as I walked my dog.
I looked.......found nothing. That was at 5pm.
At 7pm, I took my jeans off to switch for pj's for comfort. There was a tick on my leg!
I screamed for my husband to come. I was able to detach it from my leg and put it on a piece of paper. He came and cut it with his pocket knife, but the emotional damage was done. Im done.
He told me it wasn't a deer tick,, just a dog tick. What? I know they all carry lyme and coinfections.....doesn't matter what type of tick. I have a red spot on my leg where it was attached.
I cannot take this anymore. Told my husband I want to move to a highrise where they don't live. He thinks I'm over reacting, but I've lost years of my life to these damn devils.
I just can't face more of the same. Sorry, I'm crying right now and know I can't live here anymore. But where do I go?
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The timing of our moving from the country to the city was purely coincidental-- just a few months before my diagnosis. I am very glad I no longer live in the country!
I don't blame you for wanting to move ... I would, too.
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tothepoorhouse
I am so sorry this had to happen
Totally understandable reaction. I had the very same reaction last summer. Yelled & screamed like no tommorow after I got done crying.
I also said I want to move to the city. I totally understand what you are going thru.Lyme has taken a 20 year toll in my life. Am 100% positive I would be in a panic & upset as well to say the least.
Now to taking care of yourself. Rub some alcohol on the spot asap.
Do you still have a LLMD you can see? Or any doctor who can put you on some doxy for now?
Please hang on
You can pm me any time
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Hi again tothepoorhoae
I am sorry but I can't remember if you are going the natural route.
Here's a link by luvs who got re-infected last week. Trughfinder has a "tick soup recipe if you are interested & are not able or not wanting to go the doxy route:
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Thank you 6goofy and dana......I am still beside myself after the new bite.
Robert came to me a while ago and tried to help me put the new bite all in perspective. He's trying to help, saying it's just one bite and I shouldn't be afraid.
I wish it was true. He's been with me from the beginning, but can't understand what it is to be ME with lyme. He does what he can, but he doesn't know .......I'm sure you guys understand.
I'm fighting what lyme and ticks have done to me...taken my life for over 15 years. He says, "don't be afraid anymore", and take abx again.
I just don't want to live in a world where I can't walk with him, my dog etc without a tick biting me.
They are evil, but we continue to live in the silence of what is lyme. We don't just hurt....our minds and bodies aren't our own anymore. Something is stealing our lives when we are afflicted. You can't explain how that is to someone who doesn't have it, can we?
However, I would never want him to know the real crime of lyme or experience it.
I wouldn't wish this hell on anyone or especially him. He tries to understand, but thinks I go over the edge about another tick bite.
Thank God he doesn't understand because he hasn't felt his mind lost or his body failing.
Even now, after I've showered and redressed, I feel like I missed another tick on me. I hope not.
And I keep checking.........but what good does this do? If they want us, they will come and get us.
Robert says I'm giving a stupid bug power over me. All I know is, this disease has brought me down and stolen so many years of my life. Who in their right minds would NOT fear another bite?
Signing off, TTPH
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I feel for you so much. I believe it was a dog tick that got me so sick. Even since being diagnosed with a gawd-awful, painful case of LD, my life hasn't changed much as far as walking my dogs etc. What can we do? I just don't think there is a way to totally avoid them.
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I'm really sorry to hear this, TTPH. It really is difficult to go through this over and over.
I live in a concrete jungle and I prefer it that way. I just can't handle more illness... and I'm not sick like you are right now.
Hang in there and be sure to get proper treatment. Maybe since you found it early and treated it, you'll be fine.
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I have probably had over a hundred of those regular ticks stuck to me over the years. I really do not think they carry Lyme, at least not in this area.
We were walking in the woods the other day and we had to stop every 40 feet or so to pick all the ticks off of our pants. I know we must have picked off over fifty between the two of us. They are thick this year. I picked off a dozen crawling on me when looking at land walking on a woods road. If all these ticks carried Lyme there would not be an uninfected person up here.
The Deer Ticks are fewer and I have only seen a couple in my life and one bit my wife. It only took one to get Lyme. I also am more careful about any ticks but I just have not heard of any Lyme around here associated with the regular ticks.
How have you been doing lately?
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I can totally understand why you would be upset. Maybe I will feel differently after I'm done treatment but at this point I have to say I'm never going camping again. Maybe I will change my mind later but I'm so thoroughly turned off (horrified) camping right now. It is totally understandable and you aren't over-reacting at all in my opinion.
I used to love camping, hiking etc Oh well. I think it's city life for me.
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TTPH,
I can understand you're thinking. Next March will mark my 20 year "anniversary" with Lyme.
Since finding out I had Lyme, I can no longer kneel on the ground to do gardening for two reasons. The first is fear of ticks. The second is that once I get down on my knees, I don't have the leg strength to get back up. Everything has to be grown in pots.
I get paranoid when walking the dog if she manages to stretch (on the leash) over near tall grass.
I check every little tiny tiny speck of anything I find on my skin. With a magnifying glass. Sometimes for hours.
And I don't know how many aphids died an unnatural death at my hand "just in case" my eyes were playing tricks on me and they were really ticks.
Yes, my family thinks I'm over reacting also.
I like to call it PTTSD: Post Tick Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The good news is that if/when any of us finds a tick on us, now we know to start abx ASAP. We know not to wait for test results, etc. We know to take photos of the bite site and any rashes. And we know to document any symptoms out of the ordinary.
If we are currently in treatment, we call our LLMD for their advice. Maybe they will want to ad something to the abx cocktail. If we're not in treatment, we know where to get a qualified doc to treat us.
Our knowledge gives us the best chances of preventing reinfection.
And as far as moving, one of our members here pulled a tick off her (here in San Diego) while she was standing on a cement sidewalk.
Can you still send the tick out to be tested even though it is in pieces?
You'll be okay. No one can really understand the emotional side of this unless they have been through it. Always let us help with whatever we can. But it sounds like your hubby is a pretty decent guy, too.
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poorhouse, i feel all your anger, uncertainty, the thought of going thru MORE lyme treatment on top of what you've been doing, and everything else that has gone wrong for you this past year.
did hubby/so read DAR'S "TOY" STORY and LYMEDAD'S LETTER TO FAMILY/FRIENDS; both are tear-jerkers and WILL GET THRU TO FAMILY!
i wish you the best of outcomes, and a calmness that only god or whoever you believe in will provide for you. thoughts/prayers headed your way.
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I would Move --
Not worth getting sick over--Jay--
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Thanks for posting that info, Dana.
I say if you are lucky enough to get your hands on the tick that bit you, USE HIM (or her)!
I just went back and edited the post you referred to to remind folks that using homeopathic Ledum (and possibly Hypericum) is important, too.
There's no reason why a person can't do some preventative homeopathy ASAP and also get on doxy just as soon as they can.
Use everything in your 'arsenal' to prevent infection.
While abx will probably make the homeopathic remedies less effective, it should not render them useless. There is still an excellent chance your body will "get the message" from them. No preventative measures are 100%, but I think we can increase the odds in our favor.
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I've learned over time, to roll with the punches. I thought many times that I couldn't handle anymore medical drama, only to find a new tick.
Although scary, and stressful, you just need to take action and keep on living. Deal with the situation at hand, one at a time, not getting overwhelmed by the whole picture.
Did you save the tick? Send it to IgeneX and have it tested for Lyme and co-infections.
In the meantime, for a fresh bite, its Doxycycline 400 mg for 6 weeks, or until the tick testing comes back.
hang in there! We've all wanted to give up at some point. Just be more careful, use Permethrin, check yourself frequently, wear socks and gaiters...shower and check when you get inside, save the ticks...etc.
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I am very sorry for what happened to you, and I would be just as upset as you are.
However, I do have another perspective to offer. I live in the most densely populated county in Florida. There are about 2 million people packed into this metro area, with water on 3 sides.
Nevertheless, we had a tick epidemic here a few years ago. Neighbors even had ticks inside their homes, crawling on their clothes. Yards had to be sprayed repeatedly to get rid of the problem.
If you go urban, I would pick an area of row houses or high rises and concrete with no grass at all. (It would be really ugly,and it would depress me to no end, so I personally could not stand it), but I don't think it would necessarily be much safer, unless it is totally devoid of greenery.
Good luck, Klutzo
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I agree, WHAT KIND OF LIFE is it to live in a concrete jungle. I have been there done that.
I will take a thousand tick bites ANY day to living in a total ratrace with no "natural" beauty around me.
I have 10 acres with a river running through it. THIS IS where I got my tick bite, OR bites, as I may have not seen some of them.
Are you taking Astragalus as a preventitive?
I lay in the deep grass at times, or under a car in the grass/gravel mix. I am building a goat barn out there now. I am sure there are hundreds of ticks where I am working. Hundreds of thousands or more on my ten acres.
Am I going to let a stupid tick keep me from enjoying what I love most: The country life? Why would I want to go to the city and have to lock my doors at night or when I leave? Why would I have to worry about getting mugged continually? WHY would I have to cringe every time I hear a noise and think I am going to be an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting?
The list goes on and on.
I should think the ticks would be more worried about me. I already have Lyme, and they could get it from me!
Life is pretty much what YOU make it. Sure other PEOPLE do affect us, because there are so many jerks out there. Dishonest, mean, negative, thieves, liers, etc., etc..
I will take God's beautiful earth any day to the concrete jungle rat race. When I want to be part of a race, I watch NASCAR on TV.
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There has got to be some middle ground here. PA is heavily infested with ticks. No place is 100% tick free but there are better choices. I live in an old neighborhood in a city. It is heavily green and lush. Quite a lot of natural beauty. It is not forrest like however. Newer neighborhoods, near the forrests edge hold much greater risk in my opinion. Also, homes in the country are at great risk for ticks.
I have never seen a tick around here although I know they are around. Not many though.
Another thing I think we need to look at is this. Some folks get bitten very easily. I know, I am one of them. If I go in my yard with 5 friends not one of them gets bit and I have 10 bites in a few minutes.
So, if you are NOT one of these folks who easily attracts insects then it is probably easier for you to tolerate being in the outdoors in tick infested areas. Those of us who are bug magnets feel differently.
I never want to be bitten again. I will never camp in the east ............ ever. I loved to camp and hike when I lived in dry climate of the southwest. Not here. Too great a risk. I have not been able to get to remission despite several years of abx, lifestyle changes and alternative therapies. Another bite is not an option for me.
I think it is wrong to judge other people by saying " you are letting the tick win". Each person has to do what they can tolerate. Each person has different priorities. Being sick and knowing you are easily bitten you have to choose a safer place. This is winning .......... frankly, the tick doesn't give a sh1t. The tick is just doing what ticks do.
Knowing what you can tolerate and choosing based on that is a sane, sensible approach. If you move, you have not lost .................. you have done what is best for you and your family.
robi
PS when NASCAR comes to town, I go in the house .......... talk about an infestation!
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Robi thanks everything you said really hit home for me.
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Thanks everyone. I cried last night but came in off of the ledge.
I am a bug magnet, that's for sure. And I don't wear perfume, scented soap or hair products. It's always been this way, since I was a child.
I guess I could run, but I couldn't hide.
Besides, moving is not a possibility since I lost my job. I will have to toughen up and not let the ticks scare me out of my home.
I did however, go to Walmart today and picked up a white wardrobe! White tees, white pants, white socks, white sneakers, white underwear and a white cap!!
Darn, I did forget to get the tick spray though.
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Poor House,
I tend to agree with ROBI, you have to do what you feel comfortable doing. A mind is a powerful thing.
If you are concerned about these ticks, you have a right to be. I know several friends back in PA and NJ whom I left behind to move to Indiana. I always have tick safety on the brain, no matter where I am. But when I lived in West Chester, PA the ticks annialated my family and my finances....let's not forget that. Most ticks there carried Lyme or coinfections. The threat is here too, but I'd like to think it's a little safer here...statistics say so.
I'm a bug magnet too. Flying bugs also love me. I remember sitting on a friends porch when I was a teen and feeling this ache in my neck. I reached for the spot and felt down a huge insect. My friends called it a dive bomber. It had dove from the lights right onto my neck and was sucking my blood. I slapped it off and it smacked the concrete.
Many stories like that.
But, it's good you are back on track. Everyones advise I diddo. Try not to smash the bug, but save it for IGENEX. Get on therapy right away. Keep a log of any symptoms and take photos.
As for moving, if you can't you can't. If you can, it's okay to do so. I did. Others have. We try to reduce our risks, knowing we cannot eliminate them.
Gods peace-
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robi wrote: PS when NASCAR comes to town, I go in the house .......... talk about an infestation! ## CUTE! ###
MAYBE THAT is WHY I watch it on TV. IT is the same with football, only football is even worse.
To each their own, I guess.
I thought about bugs as I was sitting with my sore back between working on the goat barn; and swatting a ton of mosquitos as it got super humid all of a sudden. WHO knows how many of those had West Nile Disease, or even Lyme, as it has been proven that you can get Lyme from Mosquitos AND fleas too.
So WHO is safe, WHERE?
COOL on all the WHITE clothes, NOW the ticks can really see you good to find you.
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Hi, We live in CT on 26 wooded acres, and the deer aren't even afraid of us anymore. They are always in our yard. We pull ticks off ourselves all the time, and I know no matter what I could be missing some in our hair or somewhere else. Three out of four of us have chronic Lyme.
I wouldn't move, but my husband talks about it all the time. I figure for the most part, the damage is done, most of us already are chronically ill and on ABX. I still walk in the woods, but as soon as we get in the house we strip off our clothes in the entry way and head for the shower.
I live in a very rural area, and frankly it surprises me that any can escape Lyme here! But they do!
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White is good, and frequent checks, better. Try BUZZ OFF clothes with permethrin. I have the original Bug Shirt. Bug Shirt.com and Rynoskin socks, plus Outdoor research gaiters, keeps the ticks away! here are some pictures of what I use.
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Tothe,
I understand completely how you feel. It is only natural to want to protect yourself.
For me personally, moving to the city would be a prison sentence. I love the mountains, outdoors and horses too much. I have to find a way to build my immunity to the tick.
The evening I think I picked up my tick, I was walking around a 10 acre horse farm considering purchasing it. I had my left wrist in a brace as I had begun chelation that week and the left wrist has really swelled. That brace got the realtor and I talking about lyme.
He is a hunter, gardener and realtor so outdoors alot. He recently pulled 46 ticks off himself and he does worry about lyme. So far, he is not sick.
I know LOTS of folks just like him. We all live in the most beautiful Shenandoah Valley and have the Blue Ridge Mountains on one side and the Allegany Mountains on the other. Most all homes have million dollar views.
The next day I discovered the tick on me and 24 hrs after that, I was sick as a dog. BAD SICK!!
It was a regular dog tick too. (BTW, Igenex says "no such thing as a dog tick") We call them dog ticks here.
I have really been thinking since this bite about how most people don't get sick from the tick.
Something is haywire about us that we get and stay so sick!
I'm reading two books by Sherry Rogers MD. One is called "Pain-Free in 6 weeks" and the other is "Detoxify or Die". She says illness starts in the gut and until we heal the gut, we will stay sick.
My very good doctor says the same thing and he and I have been working for a year to heal my gut and clean up my body from all the crap that has escaped through my gut. Will my gut ever heal?
I believe this is the key and the reason why others do not get sick while we do.
Just my thoughts.
Yesterday morning I woke up at 5am and felt completely well and normal. People with Rheum Arthritis always suffer most in the morning so for me to feel this way was so phenominal, I cried. Then I jumped out of bed, put on my riding clothes and by 7am was on my horse racing across the meadows and up the hills to see some of the most georgeous views God has created.
This is the goal that keeps me fighting to get well. This is the carrot that dangles constantly in front of me. Take it away, and you will take away my will to live.
I need to get well so my body can deal effectively with whatever nature throws its way.
Please don't give up. Take a round of doxy, then take care of your gut.
Good Luck!
Luvs
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QUOTE:
Please don't give up. Take a round of doxy, then take care of your gut.
Good Luck!
Luvs ##
HOW the heck can you possibly take CARE of your gut IF you take DOXY?
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JimBob,
True! Absolutely true about doxy or any abx damaging our gut. But there are ways to protect your gut while on the abx.
1-probiotics. Lots of them.
2-L-Glutamine. I am on Permeability Factors by Tyler.
3-Eat a vegan diet while on the abx. This is the least inflamatory diet one can eat.
I'm the greatest champion of alternative care, but even I am on 2 weeks of doxy for this recent bite.
I'm for covering my bases.
Luvs
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Highrise near the ocean where you can let your dog go IN the ocean (instant FREE flea bath!)...may give you some piece of mind.
Apollo beach allows dogs. Check out nearby Mira Bay community. Protected by St. Pete...to a degree. Look at a map.
Favor to ask fellow Floridians...IF you see a tick on your dog, take the dog to the ocean, let him/her romp in it and then do a repeat tick check.
Does ocean water cause the tick to release?
Rinse the dog off...the salt water isn't good for the dog's coat.
Here's another "catch 22"...B6 lowers prolactin.
High levels of prolactin = INSTANT rebuilding of the myelin sheath. (see link in oxycodone post)
Lactobacillus MAKE B6 for us because stomach acids destroy this vitamin. It normally DROPS in lyme...along with a ton of other nutrients!
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I totally understand your feelings.
I can't stand even looking at a photo of a tick. I politely asked the Pres. of our state group to take the photos off our board and she was nice enought to do that for me. Now she has a link for those that want to see the photos.
And I don't even know if I was infected by a tick. Both my twin and I have it, our spouses and kids don't have it and we are 48. We've probably had it for 30 years.
Ticks just really creep me out. Take care and let us know if you get a rash.
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Thoughts about what to do:
1) Spray your clothes 2) Put rose geranium oil, mixed half and half with water in a spray bottle, all over your skin (ticks hate it) 3) Take a shower when you come in. Don't just do a tick check but take a good hot shower to wash them off 4) Put all your clothes in the dryer immediately when you come in. That kills ticks 5) I would move if I were you, but if you don't want to move, the above should help 6) Have a week of doxy on hand to take immediately at high doses, keep it in the fridge, and make sure to get any tick you find on you tested.
It is probably true that in the first few hours the bugs are only in the skin, and if you take the doxy right away you should be okay.
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There's a common antibiotic that becomes poisonous if old, and I thought it was doxy.
I'm normally not careful about meds if they're a bit out dated, but I would check on that one.
FM Doctor T mentions it in one of his books.
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That's a rough one. I don't know what I would do if I found a tick on me. I didn't see the first one & I never got a rash. I have definitely been considering moving from NJ but to where? Lyme is found is all 50 states.
Also- we may want to be careful of those bug sprays. Pesticides are toxic to bugs & probably to humans, as well. I'll try the rose geranium oil. I've heard other herbal oils may repel ticks, too.
Jim Bo B - Cities aren't so bad but I wouldn't want to live in NYC these days. I grew up (partially) in Brooklyn, NY. It was fun back then - even though there was alot of crime. I was kind of streetwise - so I didn't have too much of a problem. Now, it's sooo expensive. Only rich people can afford to live in Manhattan these days. Brooklyn is getting that way, too. Crime happens all over - not just in big cities. Sometimes I feel safer in Manhattan than in the NJ suburbs.
I read that the ticks (or Lyme) has a hard time living in temperatures over 106 F. Maybe the southwest is a good place to go?
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quote:Originally posted by sparkle7: Snip <.... I have definitely been considering moving from NJ but to where? Lyme is found is all 50 states.
Jim BoB - Cities aren't so bad but I wouldn't want to live in NYC these days. I grew up --partially-- in Brooklyn, NY. It was fun back then - even though there was alot of crime. I was kind of streetwise - so I didn't have too much of a problem. Now, it's sooo expensive. Only rich people can afford to live in Manhattan these days. Brooklyn is getting that way, too. Crime happens all over - not just in big cities. Sometimes I feel safer in Manhattan than in the NJ suburbs.
I read that the ticks --or Lyme-- has a hard time living in temperatures over 106 F. Maybe the southwest is a good place to go?
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YES, the southwest would be a better place to go. I have thought of it myself, and it may just happen some day. BUT then we would have to be concerned about getting bit by Scorpions, Snakes, and whatever else that survives there.
As far as NYC, I have been there a few times. I married a gal from Queens back in 96, but it didn't work out at all. TOTALLY different lifestyles from here to there. She had always lived in a city, having been born in Guatemala and moving to Belize City at a very young age. THen on to New York. She couldn't take the country life at all here, and was gone in about 6 months. She was gone for over a year, but came back to give it a try again. BUT was only here a few months and we got divorced. THEN she BEGGED me to remarry her. I tried dating her for awhile but I could see that NOTHING was going to change, so told her to leave me alone, which she has.
The last I heard she is still in Wisconsin, but living in a WI city with a new husband. Have not seen her for years.
But when we were going together, I went to Queens for almost a week. It was FUN the first time. The next time it was for just 4 days. We went back again for two days to get her belongings when we got married. Later I have been there two or three times but only for a day.
I liked it less each time I went there. But I feel that way about most of the east coast. Just way too many people for me, and it is too fast. I like the slowwwwwwwww country life.
I know when you are there for a time, you become acclimated and become part of the whole scene, but I don't want to do that.
I am originally from northern Wisconsin, and when I came down here to central Wisconsin, it was too fast for me, but I became accustomed to it, and have been here for 21 years now, so it is home.
I had lived in different towns in northern Wisconsin, and was used to it, but in the late 60's we moved to the country, and I became spoiled to that kind of life. SO when we moved back to the city in the late seventies, I couldn't stand it and could hardly wait to get back to the country. I have never looked back.
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JB,
I lived in the southwest for many years. Saw 1 scorpion, 1 snake. Never got bit. No mosquitoes either.
I moved to the east and had lyme in 5 months. Also about 80 to 100 mosquito bites per summer.
Go Southwest!!! Much better!!!!!
robi
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Marnie
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Ticks should be removed using a shot of lidocaine under them according to a Canadian doctor years ago.
This maybe why:
"Local anesthetics (LAs) are considered to act primarily by inhibiting voltage-gated Na+ channels.
However, LAs also are pharmacologically active at other ion channels including nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR).
nAChR exist as a family of diverse subtypes, each of which has a unique pharmacological profile.
With only a few exceptions, LA effects were consistent with
noncompetitive inhibition of nAChR function and occurred at therapeutic doses."
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JimBoB
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quote:Originally posted by robi: JB,
I lived in the southwest for many years. Saw 1 scorpion, 1 snake. Never got bit. No mosquitoes either.
I moved to the east and had lyme in 5 months. Also about 80 to 100 mosquito bites per summer.
Go Southwest!!! Much better!!!!!
robi
THanks Robi:
I have thought about it for years. My daughter in in New Mexico now, has been for a few years.
A LOT will depend on what happens short term though, as my wife left me on May 4th. She and a bunch of people, most who I didn't know, came yesterday and cleared out her stuff, and a little of mine; I had to call the sheriff in as she was very abusive to me, even hit me.
And in MY condition with my back being out for about three weeks now, I couldn't defend myself at all.
I have lived here for 21 years now, and she lived here for less than six, but with our laws, I may have to sell the place as I don't have the money to pay her off, and can't afford big house payments by getting another loan on it.
So maybe, southwest will become a reality. Will miss the Packer games, etc., but IF I could have better health, that would be a plus. I imagine my asthma and arthritis would be a little better down there also.
I sure hate to think of ALL I would have to get rid of before I could leave though. As some of you know, I am into old cars, and buy and sell on ebay; and have about 30 old junk cars and projects here now. IT is quite a mess.
And because the "new" house is not finished, I would take quite a killing on it.
oxygenbabe
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I have spent a lot of time in the southwest and love it. I seriously think about moving there all the time but seemed joined at the hip to NYC.
I recommend Las Cruces area--its a fast growing liveable city, if you google its a great retirement place. No ticks. And still reasonably priced. Also near El Paso airport so easy to get places.
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JimBoB
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Actually I would not want to be IN a city at all, or too near any large city. Maybe a few miles out of town like I am now, from a 300+ town. And only about 9 miles from a town of 5,000. Twenty five miles from a town of 30,000.
I defintitely would want to live in the country. And now, at my age and my lifestyle, airports have absolutely NO interest to me. I do not need or want to travel anymore. I have done some, but do not even like flying.
I also traveled the whole country for three years previous to this year. THAT is enough for me. IF I were rich, I might want to travel to Europe once or twice, but that would be about it.
I am a homebody, like my alone time, and like time with a wife, but hard to find someone like that these days.
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