A photo of Jo Rogers was posted on a GoFundMe page established by her family.
Well that sucks a lot.
Simply horrible!
That’s terrible
YOu have to seek immediate attention after the flu like symptoms if you don’t get the bull’s eye rash.
That is just awful. I will certainly be getting my yard sprayed again. Where I live ticks are just a part of life. My kids know to check themselves all the time when they come in from playing outside. Very scary stuff. If would be only too easy to miss one.
Grand Lake! Been there many a time. Ticks and chiggers will carry you off if you are not prepared.
I wonder why Dad brought us to this tick and chigger infested country back in 1956!
I wonder more why I am still here in this tick and chigger infested area instead of swimming in the beautiful orange ANIMAS River where there almost no ticks or chiggers.
Great.
Now I’ll have to deal with yet ANOTHER influx of borderline personality-disordered anxiety-ridden patients who just KNOW they got bitten by a tick.
NO tick present. Brushed it off, but they KNOW they NEED a “broad-spectrum antibiotic” or their arms and legs will rot off.
Perspective, people, perspective.
UNLESS a tick ATTACHES, and FEEDS and sufficient time has passed for the tick to get a blood meal - variably from 48-72 hours, the likelihood of transmitting Lyme (B. burgdorferei), is zero to none. YOU get two doxycycline tablets as a consolation prescription, come back in several weeks for blood tests.
As for RMSF, HGE and all the others, sorry, I’ll be happy to run a CBC, ESR/CRP test and look for a rash, but damn if I’m going to carte blanche write an Rx for an antibiotic based upon someone’s FEARS and not hard clinical data.
Seems like - and I read through an article about this earlier - SOMEONE wasn’t thinking of RMSF and other rickettsial diseases despite the presentation.
[Not the world’s best doctor, but I work REALLY hard to keep up with the literature and board certification]