Porcupines and Power Lines
I thought I would post a quick note about the the cache titeled "Porcupines and Power Lines". Tink and I did this cache this afternoon and we pick up some nasty hitch hikers while on this cache. I am not talking about picking up people needing a ride either. I am talking about ticks. We have never seen so many ticks in our entire life. Tink pulled off and counted 24 ticks from the time we started the hike into the cache until we got back to the car. Then when we got home we were still finding them. If your going to do this cache you might want to spray yourself with deet real good. We did not spray ourselves at all. I know we will spray ourselves on every cache not until the cold weather starts to set back in.
Ticks, ticks and more ticks!
It seems we've been picking ticks off of us this year no matter where we go. They seem worse than normal. We did the Fields of Old cache a few weeks ago and the kids were picking them off of themselve the whole way home. They easy each found a dozen on themselves.
We've also found this that they get in our car after we go caching. Several times my wife has gotten into the car the day after we've used it for geocache outing to find a tick crawling on a seat or the dashboard. I don;t remember ever having that happen before this year.
Evolution of a suspicous rash - lol
Thanks Andy for your comment!
Following some additional reading tonight, I am even more convinced that the rash is related to Lyme Disease. Antibiotics are a typical course of action. Some recommend labwork as well to see if there are antibodies present, but it also looks like the results can be inaccurate - both early on and during later stages of the disease. It seems that if treated early on that the disease can be held at bay and/or eliminated completely. Perhaps jumping right into antibiotics is considered to be a bit extreme to some people, but it is an easy enough thing to do and makes the most sense to me given my situation. I'm not interested in waiting for lab results that may not even be accurate while this rash on my leg continues to grow in size and take on a life of it's own - LOL :eek:
In the meantime, it is DEET based bug repellant for me. I might stink when I am around, but I will have a greater chance of being rash-free :p
Happy caching!!