Back last year, when I first started my groundie job with Plateau, I got my first tick. Since then, there have been many bouts of ticks at work and lots of people relaying horror stories of their grass tick infestations. However, to date, Mat has not come back with any thank goodness.
This morning I was having my shower when the strange itch/sore spot (something I only noticed half consciously last night) made me look down to find, shock horror, I had another tick!
Eeuw! Slight panic before I realised Mat was at work and I would have to deal with this all by myself.
It was only a small tick, no bigger than 2mm, but dark in colour and rounded looking; not like the last one that was about 4mm wide, grey and flat. I wondered if this was perhaps an ominous “grass tick” that people keep going on about, that usually come in packs of anything from five to a hundred. I immediately began hunting for more but satisfied myself that this guy was a lone ranger.
I decided to finish my shower, then once dry and armed with a pair of tweezers, a razor (I’ve been told that the best way of getting rid of grass ticks is razoring them) and some toilet roll, I sat down on the bed and plucked up the courage to tackle the extraction. I opted for the tweezers first as the tick was sticking out enough to get a good purchase. I quickly grabbed the tick as close to the skin as possible and pulled it firmly, straight out.
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