Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱

I am a nobody

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@sunny_joni 🤣

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@CarlBovisNature I've never even seen one, let alone three. I haven't ever heard any around here, either, so maybe they don't live here 😔

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@CarlBovisNature My favourite, definitely

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

*IMPORTANT*
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️

Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading.
As there was no 'bullseye', I didn't think it was Lyme, I assumed it was just a reaction, especially as the rash wasn't painful or itchy..(see photo)
It WAS Lyme!
Any rash around a tick bite is diagnostic.
I didn't know this. 😕
I was bitten at Shapwick Heath on the Somerset Levels.
I've since learnt some areas of the UK have a higher risk of Lyme, and the Somerset Levels is one of them.
If you go out in the countryside, take care... stick to paths and try to avoid brushing up against vegetation, that's how the ticks get on you.
Always check yourself over for ticks when you get home. The longer a tick is attached to you, the higher the chance of infection.
If you find a tick, don't panic, remove it carefully with a tick removal tool or tweezers, being careful not to squeeze the tick.
Keep an eye on the bite for the next month... if a rash starts to develop at the site of the bite in that time, go to your doctor ASAP!
Explain that you were bitten by the tick, and have now developed a rash at the site... they will prescribe antibiotics, usually Doxycycline, for at least 3 weeks.
You may be asked to have a blood test too, but these aren't reliable in the early stages of Lyme, insist on starting the antibiotics immediately.
Sometimes, you don't even get a rash. In these cases, if you get flu-like symptoms in the 30 days after a tick bite, go and see a doctor, it's probably Lyme Disease and you'll need antibiotics.
Many people with debilitating advanced Lyme Disease didn't see the signs, or they just ignored them.
Lyme Disease is usually curable in the early stages, but can become a chronic lifelong illness affecting every system in your body, if left untreated! 😔
I'm not posting this to scare anybody, but because I was ignorant to the rash, and if it hadn't been for my youngest daughter badgering me to get it checked out, I'd not be sat here taking antibiotics for Lyme Disease... I wouldn't even know I had it, and many of the later symptoms are confused with other illnesses!
A case in point is the fabulous musician @Renmakesmusic, who was only diagnosed with Lyme Disease 6 years after being infected! 😯
He really suffered in those years, spending much of it in bed, too ill to get up, but not having a clue what he was suffering with.

I'm obviously no medical expert, all I've written here has come from my own research & experience, so in case there are some inaccuracies, learn more from @UKLyme 🙏
However, you get the picture... if this post prevents just one person getting advanced Lyme Disease, I'd be delighted!
Prevention is better than cure, so please be careful out there!
Don't be ignorant to the dangers of ticks, rashes and Lyme Disease.. don't be like me! 🙏❤️

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@Tinta19689015 @LAgemro '„Der Weg ist das Ziel.“'- Kommt wohl sehr drauf an, was genau das Ziel ist ... . Einem ohnehin gesundheitlich stark beeinträchtigten Tier noch zusätzliche schwere Verletzungen zuzufügen, die sein Überleben noch unwahrscheinlicher machen als es ohnehin schon ist? Ist es das? 🤔

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@admired_art 2. You could do a lot of these edits yourself, then they're still your own work. If you edit purely with AI, I feel it is no longer your own work. AI decides on all the steps to take to end up with a result it chooses, not you. My 2 cents worth 🙃

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@admired_art I think it very much depends on the photographer's intentions. If you want to document snapshots in time, then AI edits potentially falsify reality. If you intend to produce a work of art, then I think, anything goes. They're all tools, like a filter, a pen, a brush, photoshop...

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@admired_art I do that, too. It makes for some interesting results, sometimes intriguing, sometimes not so much, but you can learn a lot doing this

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@krank_vor_zorn Uiih! Herzliche Glückwünsche und alles alles Gute für Eure gemeinsame Zukunft!!

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@krank_vor_zorn 😊😊

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@krank_vor_zorn 🤔 Ist das gut oder nicht so gut?

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@krank_vor_zorn @torlopackz Jetzt möchte ich Dich ganz fest dafür drücken, dass Du das nicht nur geschafft, sondern auch genossen hast. Das ist doch bestimmt ein Meilenstein, oder nicht?

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

https://t.co/YuL8V241bZ
As poignant as when it was made. Especially since we seem to have nothing better to do than fight wars and make land 'acquisitions' at the behest of our elected leaders

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@Sebasti51942189 Thanks!

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

Moonlight reflecting off the tiny ice crystals on the snow surface

[Brayden Creations @BraydenCreation]

Photographers, show me your Most Neat Nighttime Photos! 📸🌃🌌

Reposting all!

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@krank_vor_zorn Mensch, bin ich froh wieder etwas von Dir zu hören (lesen). Auch wenn Dein Weg holprig und mit Stolpersteinen übersät ist, freue ich mich, dass es Dich noch gibt. Ich wünsche Dir weiterhin viel Kraft!!

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@KpunktausBpunkt Bei mir Dauerzustand

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

@KpunktausBpunkt 😪🫂

[Sonja ✏ 📷 🌱 @shadedfaces]

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