kidsgotlyme
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Well, our family has survived another year of camp with our homeschool group. We each got a tick bite so we are all on doxy for a month.
It's insanity to go every year, but my family loves it so much! Just thankful that we have the information we need to stay well.
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Glad the family had a good time. We try to go camping each year as well and the kids love it. I don't enjoy the dampness of the tent and all the cooking, cleaning but I enjoy the concentrated family time. As far as I know we've never got a tick bite camping , only in our backyard or nearby.
-------------------- Bart Henslea 1976 Fibro/CFS/arthritis 2004 Lyme diagnosed 2007 3 1/2 years treatment with oral combos, Cowden, IV roc. BW herbs. Off all abx in 12/10. Feeling good. Posts: 647 | From NY | Registered: Dec 2007
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Just about everyone at our campsite gets bitten every year. I'm really surprised we don't have more sick people than we do.
We have three children that are in our homeschool group that are in treatment right now for LD. There are several more who I suspect have it.
If we had that many children in a group of our size with cancer or some other horrible disease, everyone would be in an uproar trying to figure out what's going on.
It's so sad that people are not educated about this disease.
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map1131
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My husband wants to go camping with the 2 grandsons. Tent and all.
I told him go right ahead, but I will NOT subject myself to that stressor. I also told him you will spray yourself and the boys down with repellant.
You will do a daily, maybe hourly tick check of them and they will do you.
Do not under any circumstances bring any ticks home. Or else.
If I'm not there, they will all 3 of them forget me. I will have to call them on cell phone hourly with warnings.
Don't know if he'll follow through on camping but he's been warned???? lol
Pam
-------------------- "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Winston Churchill Posts: 6495 | From Louisville, Ky | Registered: Jan 2002
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I used to camp in my brother's motor home, every single year, the last week of July.
That week was my refuge, my peaceful week with no phones, no worries, just my little dachsie and me.
I would get a few visotors, but mainly a lot of alone time to reflect.
This year, I am frightened, but more than that I am angry that something smaller than the period at the end of this sentence will make me too paranoid and worried to go.
I still have not decided one way or the other.
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Hope
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I grew up playing in the woods, climbing trees, all that stuff. And look what it got me.
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@Lymetoo. I don't feel very brave, just plain stupid!! LOL!
@Pam. Sounds like a smart idea to me. We treated our clothes, put on essential oils, AND sprayed the Off Woods every day. Ticks are just really bad in this particular area.
I have been home for two days now, and I STILL feel itchy.
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I met a reserve soldier who has done 3 tours, a few weeks ago. He has stuff at home to wash your clothes in that stays in clothes for 30 some washings.
He has sprays and yard stuff that he says will keep the ticks away. He said the biting flying bugs in Iraq and Afganistan are killers and you have to keep yourself protected not just from enemy fire but also there f------g bugs are the meanest.
I'm not sure what he's going to give me and believe me I will research the products before I use them with my chemical reactions.
He told me he went squirrel hunting one time and came home with hundreds of deer ticks on him. Crawling around in the weeds like some men do? He was so freaked, he ran outside stripped his clothes(he lives in the countryside)off and he and his wife picked each and every one of those ticks off.
Some were already embedded. He was very aware of the dangers but he took quick action. He laughed he's had malaria, something something virus and named off all these things he picked up.
He hds bullets in him and many bad things but some darn tick is not going to take him down.
I got to spend 2 days around this 42 year old soldier and did I ever pick his military brain.
I told him I was honored to meet him and ask him questions that I'd always wanted to talk to a soldier heart to heart. This was just days after the bin Laden killing.
He's invited us to his home out in the middle of wilderness and nature later this for a big BBQ. He told me his yard is tick free. He promised me I would be able to sit in his yard and enjoy the beauty without the fear.
I'm going to the BBQ no doubt but I will be on tick watch all day long.
Pam
-------------------- "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Winston Churchill Posts: 6495 | From Louisville, Ky | Registered: Jan 2002
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The reserve soldier story sounds interesting! Wow, he has been through a lot and all those ticks? I would be itching for days and days!
I also grew up around the lakes and woods. Walked and biked to friends' homes through trails in the woods. Played in forts in the woods behind our home. Always, always, outside in the the tall grasses and camping and hiking and biking and taking beautiful "nature walks" with my boys.
And they tell us to wear long sleeves and tuck our pants into our socks, wear boots, etc.
Well, who wants to dress like that in 80 to 90 degree weather? lol I mean, I can see doing that in the fall, but we ran around in our swimsuits and barefeet every summer. Right in the heart of Minnesota tick country. Not a care in the world.
Now, I freak if my dog gets too close to the longer grass by the fence out back and I live in a highly populated suburb of Minneapolis! I am still trying to come to terms with and trying to find that balance of not allowing this to ruin my love of nature, take common sense precautions, but still be allowed to live my life, and not be too paranoid to want to stay indoors all spring/summer/fall.
Really sad.
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Hope
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Pam, let us know how the BBQ goes. And blessings to that soldier. They are all so brave.
As for camping, all I can say is JUST SAY NO!
Go cement!
-------------------- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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