I said I'd frame it...

[gemfyre]

But seeing as I don't have a frame a small ziploc bag will have to do.

I got my first tick! I would have acquired it sometime this morning but had no idea it was there until I just had a shower. It was on my left hip. I can't even find the mark. I just pulled it out with my fingers and the whole bug came out. He's actually still alive!

I was starting to think I was immune to ticks, seeing how many times I've put myself in places where I should have got ticks but didn't. Seems I was just lucky.

Weird, I was at least expecting to be able to feel it. I've had various usual itches all day and none of them caused by this little blighter.

I feel fully initiated into bush-bashing now.

Comments

[sternenglanz.livejournal.com]

Congratulations?

[princessapphire.livejournal.com]

lol you seem so unscarred by this! I would have been freaking out! You are lucky that the whole bug did come out....usually they don't and then you are stuck with it! You are supposed to burn him out of you!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

A less drastic way is to cover it with vaseline and it will suffocate and emerge.

I was in the shower and was just, "WTF, is that a tick?!" I just gently pulled on it and it gave a little resistance then came out. I checked the head was there then put it on the basin for later 'storage'.

Tiny little thing, obviously hadn't managed to drink much blood. I imagine it was a common roo tick. I've seen massive ticks in the ears of bobtail skinks, poor things.

[annyka.livejournal.com]

I cut the tick I got when I was about 16. I had to have the head dug out at the doctors