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Terrifying Ticks
Terrifying Ticks | Kevin Blake
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In 2015, Jane Ashley took her dog for a walk through a field in Virginia. The next day, she spotted a black speck on her back. It was a tiny tick. Several days later, Jane developed a throbbing headache, which turned into a fever. Soon, she was so ill she needed to be taken to the hospital. Then Jane's organs began to fail. What was making her so deathly ill? Read Jane's harrowing tale of survival, and learn all about ticks and the deadly diseases they carry in this engrossing new narrative nonfiction book for young readers.
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Yep, truly terrifying. I chose this for "Phobia" for #ispybingo. When I was 11, I ended up with a tick on my head, both my parents were at work and my brother and I were left home alone at the time. My brother's best friend, also my first crush, came to the rescue and finally managed to remove the tick from my scalp by suffocating it with peanut butter.

Talk about embarrassing. To this day I have a phobia of ticks, parasites in general really.

aperfectmjk I'll have to add my other readathons later. They're all saved on my laptop. 6mo
LiseWorks I didn't know peanut butter can get them off. I had a tick on my arm last year and told my husband just to pluck it off. 6mo
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Clwojick YUCK! I hate ticks! 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Oh my, that's quite the story!! We deal with ticks a lot out where we live, so I'm not scared of them exactly, but they are definitely nasty, and with an increase of Lyme's disease in our area, I'm a bit obsessive with checking for them whenever we've been out in the woods!! 6mo
aperfectmjk @LiseWorks I guess if they've been attached too long you can't really pluck them off without a part of them being left behind. Ideally you want them to release themselves. We tried alcohol I believe and other things that are supposed to suffocate it, but it didn't work. My brother came in with a match but I put a stop to that because he was about to set my whole head on fire. 🤣 6mo
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