Nurse practioner Rachel Sweeney thought I should have Doxycycline for 21 days instead of the 14 the PA prescribed so gave me a script for 7 more days of antibiotic. Luckily Giant Pharmacy is providing antibiotics for free. Talking to neighbor Lorraine, it turns out her daughter and granddaughter both have had tick bites recently and needed varying days of Doxycycline. So check yourself whenever you've been outdoors to see that you don't have any "hitch hikers" on your body. Swelling and redness are lessening on my left foot.
A lady wren has made a nest in a small cardboard box which was laying open on its side on a supply shelf in my carport. She has nervoulsly flown away when I park my car each night so I moved the box to a higher shelf, hoping that would make her more comfortable. There were at least three eggs in the nest. How neat.
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Jo,
I removed a tick from Bill's back last week and the next day he had the red "bull's eye" rash around the bite. The tick did not look like a deer tick (though we have lots of deer in the woods behind our house), I sent him to Next Care (we have appointments with our new PCP at the end of this month). The ddoctor who saw him felt that it was not Lyme disease because the rash was raised and not flat. He put him on antibiotics just in case and the rash was gone by the next day. He had no other typical symptoms of Lyme disease, so we are not worried. Love, Carol
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