Ick!

I’m getting in my car yesterday and I reach up to check to be sure that the backs of my earrings are on tightly.  I never take them off but they do become loose sometimes so I have a habit of checking them.

 Hm – it feels like there is a bit of a scab there.  I must have some sort of infection there.  That sometimes happens, I’ll just take the back off.  Wow, it’s really a big scab… 

(I’m now in the car driving to the daycare place) Ok, now I have this off let’s just take a look at this big scab – Oh My Gosh!!!  It’s a tick.  I just found a tick on my ear.  Ack!!!  This is so gross.  I must not scream, must not scare the baby… but I do flick the bug somewhere in the front seat of the car.

I bring the baby to daycare and tell the nice woman to keep an eye out for bugs.  I’m fairly certain there aren’t any on her because I would have seen them but then again, I did just find a bug cuddle up to my earring back so who and I to talk?

Into work I go where I tell everyone about how gross this is and Oh My Gosh!  A tick!!! 

Everytime I itch I think it’s a bug and have to check – which is often because all I can think about it the tick that is now somewhere in my car (or so I think, can you see where this is going yet?)

I feel an itch in the small of my back.  I reach around and OH MY GOSH!!!  There is the stinking tick! 

The tick has been flushed (thank goodness).  I continue to itch and think everything is a bug – because it was the last time…  but at least the tick has been flushed and I managed to confirm that is was not the uber-scary deer tick.  Just your everyday-average-run-of-the-mill tick.  Ick!