This post is not for the faint hearted.

Tonight my grand Friend, let's call him SlackLine, found a tick in himself from camping last weekend. He decided it was a brilliant idea to great idea to come to my house to get it out...

With a lifetime in the scouting community (i too, didn't know that there was a french Scouts), and he has been tought to rub oil in a clockwise direction until the tick pulls itself out.

He sat in my kitchen for about half an hour, rubbing oil on this tick affected area... yet after 10 minutes, the tick hadn't seemed to have dug itself out of his skin, and the affected area seemed to be becoming mighty red.

After looking on many forums, it seemed that there was a recurring theme "Do not use any alcohol, or any other liquid on the affected area, pull tick out with tweezers, do not rub down tick."

I felt as though we were slowly killing SlackLine, but he emphasised that it had worked several times before. He finally called his cousin, and asked how.. exactly.. you get a tick out.. She replied with "well you rub around the tic ANTIclockwise.. make sure you don't rub clockwise, otherwise you could rub its head off and get Lyme Disease... say whaaat?!

Well then, we had just been running in the wrong direction haven't we. Finally got the tick out, and burnt it to death to make sure it wouldn't bury itself in anyone else's body here at the HLM.


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Anyway, off to my Disneyland interview, and then London until sunday. Sunday afternoon, will be heading back to the stras via Paris to pop in a few friends that are doing the common 22yroldimfromaustraliaandhavetoseeaustraliabeforeidie trip...

Keep you updated, out.

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