[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

The best safety precaution is wearing dirty underpants, because you don't want to end up in the hospital with dirty underpants, as comedian Theo Maassen said. Or was it Ronald Goedemond?

The Danish are brilliant people. Not only can their razors acutally be used for shaving, they also invented Lego!


Volker

Thank you, Stavroula

I'm doing far better, and can finally get back to work. Working on a couple new scenes for a film and practising for a recital next week, and I feel good - perhaps even better than before, with a fresh sense of vitality to everything I do. Life is fun when you really get to feel the perspective I've been feeling the last week and a half. Of course there is discomfort and pain in my mouth due to the damages to my teeth and swelling on my lips, and I can only eat things like soup, ice cream, or baby food. But otherwise I feel good!

Tomorrow it's back to the hospital, and I might find out whether or not the skin transplantation is working or if I need a more complicated treatment. Have no idea how I look beneath the bandage, hope I won't end up looking frightful but guess it should be ok somehow. I also might find out if my front teeth will survive or if they have to be replaced with implants. Either way, I don't mind a few scars. I have my health.

Still no memory of anything that happened that evening. One moment I was getting ready to leave the farm where my girlfriend's family live. I remember I waved goodbye to her mother through the window where I could see they were all watching tv. The next thing I recall is a doctor beside me and he has two tattoos on his arm. The years 2009 and 2012, with the name of a boy and a girl. I pointed at them and he replied: "kids". I pointed again, and he said: "yes, my kids". Then I gave him the thumbs up and nodded in approval and remember him smiling. That's it untill the next morning, and it bothers me a little that I remember nothing.

About motorbikes, my dad broke his arm in London after being hit by a car, and he later sold the bike and told me never to get one!

This is funny, though.

Sorry, that was my fault...

Here's the thread (and I updated its title)
http://www.maintitles.net/forum/discuss … s-threads/

Got Lyme disease. Was in the forest a couple of months ago and got bitten by a tick. Thought I had removed them all, but apparently not.

There's plenty of information telling people to look for ticks when they come home from the forest, but I've never before heard that these ticks can be so tiny that you can barely see them with the naked eye! *sigh*

I was also alone at the time. You really need a partner or another person you don't mind taking your clothes off in front of to help you check, as every inch of you have to be checked.

Anyway, the first symptom is usually this circular red rash. That's what I got on my back. Then there's some muscle soreness and I had some influenza like symptoms a couple of weeks back. The prognosis should be good for a full recovery after a few weeks of antibiotics. Some people have muscle soreness and joint pain for years after treatment though, so I hope mine has been caught early enough to avoid that.

Peter

Ooooh nasty! Did you get it here in the UK or at home?

Certain natural beauty areas have warning signs up.

Oh Peter , I hope you will recover fully!

There are many warnings yes. But what can you don if you can hardly see them? In may my son went camping with school, it was very warm and sunny. They went swimming but were not allowed to sit in the shade under the trees because ticks were falling down. So he got an awful sunburn with a rash instead... When he came home I checked him thoroughly for ticks as well.

Thanks, Volker, Timmer, Bregt and Bregje!

Timmer, I got it in Denmark. I hear it's rather widespread in England too; it seems to vary a lot from area to area.

Bregje, indeed, they can be difficult to find, especially if you're trying to check them on your own.

Anyway, annoying that the teachers would rather risk the kids catching skin cancer than Lyme disease! I don't think ticks fall from trees though. The teachers might have mistaken small spiders for ticks...? Ticks sit in bushes and other low vegetation and wait for deer to come by as far as I understand. I also don't believe they are around swimming pools, as they exist naturally around deer, so one has to be a bit out in the wild.

Peter

Sorry to hear that, Peter. Hope you get well soon. There are loads of ticks along the coast of Southern Norway, where I've been roaming about lately. I've never been bitten myself (knock on wood!), but I saw one on my dinner plate(!) at our family island a week ago. Don't know how it got there. Thank God I didn't eat it!

Ticks usually sit at the tip of straws and stuff, as you say, and jump on to unsuspecting victims passing by.

No, I've never heard about ticks falling out of trees. Certainly not common, anyway.

Leeches come from everywhere and especially from out of nowhere!

Shit! What else is there to say?

All the best, regardless, Stavroula!

Volker

Yeah, I hate that too.

But I can give you a hug as well

Thanks for the support guys! Just to get an idea of what's happening