OT: Guess what I've got, NPC Options

[VaccaRabite]

I've got Lymes Disease. Again.

weeeeeeeeeeee.

Went to the docs today to get my throat looked at, as it has been sore for a while, and I recently started sneezing and hacking up a lung.

By coincidence, I looked at my leg last night and noticed a red lump with a rash starting to form around it. I know that THAT is.

So after my exam for the sore throat, the doc asked, "any thing else?"
I said, "Yeah, check this out!" and showed him the bulls eye.
He said, "Huh, I've been seeing a lot more of this this year. Time to get you on some drugs."

So, yeah. My joints are starting to ache now. I'm so awesome.

The good news is that the drugs that will kill the Lymes, will also take care of the sore throat.

If you live in the Mid Atlantic (where it is becoming epidemic) , please keep an eye out for signs of Lymes Disease. If caught early, its no big thing. But if it goes undetected, it will make life hell, and then might kill you.

One the good side of things. I used my time off today to put my pedal cluster back togethre. It looks really good!

Zach

[VaccaRabite]

Not working on my 914, per sey. But I have brushed off several tics before they dug in while looking at old cars. Old cars and tall grass just go together.

I know more people who have had it then people who have not. Most of them got bit doing things like working in their garden, or cutting the grass. One guy got bit waiting for the Metro in DC. My mom's fiancee got it, and his idea of the outdoors is watching it on TV, and they live in downtown Baltimore. The Mid-A has the highest concentration of deer ticks in the country. Most people will never even know they picked it up, until it gets bad. Even then it is hard for doctors to diagnose.

(IMG:http://www.wuvcd.org/disease/lyme_map.gif)

Map of cases of lymes in the country. Look where they all are.

Getting a Lymes test every year with your physical is a very good idea if you live in MidA. It required blood drawn, but it is cheap insurance. Catch it early, cause once it is set in, it is VERY hard to reverse the damage done.

Oh, and the rash is going away, flue symptoms are going away, joint pain is gone. The bullseye got to about 3 inches in diameter at its biggest. I just wish my allergies would go away too. Shame anti-biotics won't cure that...

Oh, sorry Root. The bite is on my hiney. No one wants to see pictures of my big hairy white ham.

Zach