I hate to say it, but I have become a tick expert. The larger ones (dog ticks) are about the size of the end of a pencil eraser - easy to see (dark brown/black) and easy to remove with tweezers. (There is NO burning them off with a match unless you want to burn them for fun after removal.) Then there are the smaller ones (deer ticks) that more often than not - carry Lyme disease. Let's just say that you don't want to contract Lyme disease. Deer ticks are harder to see because they are smaller and are more brown than black. (My doctor has given me - and Case, too even though he is not her patient - open prescriptions to take if the tick is on our body more than 24 hours. That is suppose to stop any Lyme disease before it starts.)
The goal is to remove any ticks as soon as possible. This portion of the blog is titled: KEEPING YOUR MARRIAGE FRESH. When we come in from being outside, we immediately walk to the shower stall. One of us strips down and steps inside. Water is not turned on. The other one inspects every nook and cranny of the one in the stall. (At 56 and 63 there are nooks and crannies galore.) Then we change places. Located ticks are removed and flushed. We put on clean clothes and go about our day. There is a Brad Paisley country song, "I want to check you for ticks." Now I know what the song means.
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