With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.
“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”
All 99 goals from the 106 campaign 🤩
In celebration of our record-breaking 106-point promotion season... enjoy ALL 99 league goals from a historic 05/06 campaign.👇
Why's Caleb Williams excelling right now? Because of what he's doing in the red area 🟥
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“There’s going to be a point where it's going to be like, 'Ok well, we’ve got to play even better than this.' … the standard continues to rise.”
Ben Johnson speaks on how the Bears can’t settle with their recent wins.
Ben Johnson's full response on why he brought his "Good, Better, Best" rally cry into the locker room:
"That actually goes back to high school for me. We were a darn good high school team, and probably about 25 or 30 years there, it wasn't whether we're gonna go to the playoffs, it was how far we're gonna make it in the playoffs.
"Just a fond memory of mine growing up, postgame in that locker room, shoot, even before I was wearing that uniform, because my dad was an assistant coach on that team before he got into high school administration. So I remember being in that locker room, and that was just the rallying cry at that time.
"I think there's something to be said when a group of men, they're all believing the same thing, they're saying the same thing. It's one heartbeat, one voice, and I think our guys have enjoyed it."
Ben Johnson having no reaction to the Bears making plays just proves how high the standard is being raised in Chicago.
He expects his team to play well every week. That’s a real NFL head coach. 🔥
Suggest that anyone who couldn't get in to the official nfl one pass app, couldn't transfer tickets, missed the start or went home after queuing for 2 hours, should consider setting up a class action lawsuit against either nfl uk or ticketmaster.....