Honest question, when is the last time you put your finger in your belly button & checked for a tick?Where I live in the near north of ontario, the ticks seem to be getting worse every year. 5 years ago we never would have heard of ticks. This year I've pulled three off of myself already! This isn't from going hiking in the woods or anything, this is just from being on my own property in a semi-rural area. on 2 occasions it was actually our dogs that brought the ticks into the house, and the ticks left the dogs and went on our furniture, and then crawled onto the next human who sat on that furniture.
Fortunately it seems that so far we have got all the ticks very promptly, when they were still very small and obviously hadn't been latched on for long. I've kept the ticks just in case, but there have been no rashes or other symptoms to raise concern.
My big question, and this is a bit off topic, is how some people manage to have the tick latch on long enough to give them Lyme disease? all my Googling tells me that the tick generally has to be bitten in for 24 to 36 hours in order to give you Lyme disease. That's a long time to have a bug stuck on you and not notice. Or more to my point, that's a long time to have a bug Stuck on You without your s ex partner noticing! I mean, if my wife had a tick stuck on her, I promise you I would see it! It makes me wonder if the solution to Lyme disease isn't just for people to have more regular s ex?!. I'm only half joking.
When I read that Shania Twain got Lyme disease, I really was shocked. How is it possible that one of the best looking woman in Canadian history has such a Spartan s ex life that a tick was able to go undetected for 36 hours?? Something is not right with the universe there...
So, there ya have it...