Eighty

Just now I learned about Lyme Disease. You get Lyme Disease from ticks, which I knew. Symptoms of Lyme Disease include fever, fatigue, soreness, and a rash around the tick bite. Onset is usually 1-2 weeks after you're bitten, but it can happen with in a couple of days or even take months. If you're diagnosed early, you'll be given a couple weeks of antibiotics and then you should be all better. But some people have joint or muscle pain, fatigue, and neurological problems that last for YEARS after they're diagnosed. The longer the tick is on you, the better your chances of getting Lyme Disease; it may have to be on you for 12 hours before you can catch anything. Only ticks in the nymph stage can transmit the disease. Only 58 people in Ohio in 2005 were diagnosed with Lyme Disease, which sounds like a lot, but the cases are well into the thousands per year in New England. So only .5 people per 100,000 in Ohio will get Lyme Disease in any given year.

Bill got a tick on him Sunday at Blendon Woods, and I'm now convinced that he's going to die a slow and horrible tick-related death. PLEASE DON'T DIE, DUDE.