Posted on 08/02/2004 6:10:17 AM PDT by laotzu
I'd like to get one of these feeders just to kill off some of the ticks we have on our property! I'm not worried about LD (not casual either) but the ticks are HORRID here.
THANKS. GREAT POST.
I still think that some people are toooooo stupid and self-destructive to warrant continued existence.
Idiot bureaucrats and environmental whackos.
My daughter had the german variant of Lyme disease. She spent a week in the hospital, very sick. The spinal tap was horrible and the poor kid couldn't eat for five days. She just layed there are cried. Thank God antibiotics work well against that strain. She doesn't seem to have any lasting issues.
OK, m'dear. This could be very serious and not just Lyme. I was bitten by a young Brown Recluse. It developed a bullseye pattern that expanded with a new ring every day for a week. I almost lost my leg to that one. (My mother was bitten ten years later and it looked more like that traditional Recluse bite.) My daughter almost died from Lyme disease back in 2000. Is it smooth or rough to the touch? (Ring worm isn't dangerous, and you can treat that easily with antifungal cream.)
Don't know about other causes--you should have it checked, though.
Lacey,
Get your a$$ to a doctor fast. A bulls-eye rash means you have lyme disease and you have to get it treated before the bacteria disseminates into your central nervous system and deep tissue. You should demand a minimum of four weeks of antibiotics - six is better - as there are tons of treatment failures when people get less than a month of abx. Believe me, you do not want to let this go even another day. I'm one of those unfortunate people who didn't get diagnosed right away - they didn't recognize what the bulls-eye rash was back then - and it has effectively destroyed my life. It invaded my central nervous system and the consequences have been dire. Call your doctor now. Also, take high quality photos of the rash so you have proof of infection later if your insurance company gives you a hard time should, God forbid, you have any complications. And, btw, lyme rashes can sometimes be mistaken for ringworm rashes as they do have some features in common. The way to be sure is to actually culture the rash if there's any doubt. I can't tell you how many people I know who were told by doctors that they had ringworm and it turned out to be lyme.
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This is a crock!!
Feeding stations would attract the animals away from my shrubs and black-eyed susans.
And if they really wanted to reduce the overpopulation they could add birth control to the feed corn.
What the liberals say is good for women all around the overpopulated planet is not good enough for the deer?!
Give me a break!
Hey Cousin,
I just sent this page off to Senator Algiere. Hope he finds it of value and can move on it.
The CT DEP is nothing more than a bunch of bull crappers.
We have a beach in CT called Hammonasset on the Long Island Sound shore. But the DEP runs it. They maintain a swamp ten times the size of the beach and the mosquitos are attacking ten a minute only 50 feet from the ocean. It's horrible. Not to mention the unusability that the campground has become.
There's also the case that the DEP decided to plant poisin ivy to control dune erosion and now they can't control it and get rid of it. THEY PLANTED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
MORONS.
Have been to re-enactments there. Of course, we don't do them at Hammo anymore. Too much wet stuff. And then it usually rains, too!
It'd be nice to get some of these 4-posters put in all that acreage behind my house. I'd even volunteer to keep them filled!
"Lyme disease is the hazard."
Sounds like THE EPA IS THE HAZARD.
These are states, CT and NY, that WANT to increase the human disease as to increase the need for medical attention, to push up the cost of health care, to force socialized health care upon all of us.
They've been doing this through needless vaccination requirements in the public schools, new requirements for physical exams for students almost yearly, etc.
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