Hitchhikers:

[Duckman]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

David, we have deer ticks here so thick they keep some hunters out of the woods. A friend who bowhunts has come out of the woods after a morning's hunt with literally more than 80 ticks on his clothing and body. We finally have medical professionals here who know what to look for in diagnosing Lyme Disease. It wasn't so long ago that people would suffer from the devastating effects of Lyme for years before they were properly diagnosed. But it isn't just the deer that are the carriers of these ticks.... mice, birds, squirrels, skunks, raccoons, just about any warm-blooded critter that inhabits the same areas where there are ticks.

That little 12 acre piece of woods where those ten deer are in my picture was so overrun with deer ticks that I would not allow my grandkids in there and that picture is taken from my kitchen window.

I picked it up when working in Washington and living on a farm in Loudon Co. VA and it took 3 years before it was diagnosed and treated. When I left
for Colorado I was having these wierd neck and shoulder pains every fall and finally a young doctor treated me for it and no more problem. He couldn't believe I hadn't been treated before. I had had the tests twice before and finally on the third one, there was some question so he treated me. He felt they should have just treated me based on what I told them. I even remembered the tick that was behind my ear.