I can tell you I had Lyme disease two years ago and it was not much fun. I was bitten in my yard while doing yard-work and I was fortunate that I got sick almost immediately and it was treated within about three weeks from the day bitten.
Deer ticks are the tiny small black ticks that are so small, you almost don’t see the legs on it and many times won’t even recognize it as a tick. It’s not the larger brown ticks that most of us are used to pulling off of our dogs or kids.
In my case, my neighborhood is practically run over with deer that cross through our yards at all times of day and night and leave these little presents for us to find. This year a girl in high school who lives three or four houses away from me also got Lyme disease and though she tested negative for it the first time, her parents insisted on a second test and it came back positive.
Be careful and if you find yourself suddenly overcome with arthritic like pain and fevers and chills, be sure you make the doctor test you for Lyme. Mine only tested me for it out of response to my insistence and even told me she thought it was a ‘soft tissue’ infection, all of this despite the fact that I had the classic rash around the bite.
