Lyme's Again! Ugh!!!

It's been an extremely warm winter here and not enough frigid temps to kill the horrid ticks! We never found any ticks on Kyle but the other night we spotted three bullseye rashes on his upper thigh area. One tick bite can cause more than one bullseye and the bullseye rashes don't necessarily appear at the bite site, they can show up anywhere. He and Reeve were playing in the nearly 50F temps all day on New Years Day then the following night we spotted this.


Yesterday morning I called his doctor and brought him to the hospital for bloodwork. I should find out the Lyme titer results today or tomorrow. Even if it was a Lyme tick that bit him the results could be negative because his body might not have had a chance to build up the antibodies. We didn't want to take any chances, so he's on antibiotics for 3 weeks. Luckily he feels great and is his usual high-energy-self. When Reeve was bit by a Lyme tick last May he got to the point where he developed a fever and felt lethargic and stiff. Reeve's 100% better now.

Kyle was very brave having his blood drawn. Reeve and I were right by his side. He was very still and afterward told the tech that "No it didn't feel like a bee sting... it was a WASP sting." The tech chuckled, very relieved that it went so smoothly, and offered him a candy cane. I said no thanks he doesn't want a candy cane, he'd prefer stickers. It was true, Kyle would rather have the stickers and he was completely stoked to get 4 big stickers. Next stop was the pharmacist for the antibiotics. We got him the chewable kind, and thankfully he loves the taste. Now we just need to remember to take them 3x's a day.

By the end of the day yesterday his bullseye rashes had morphed into larger splotchy rashes. I sure hope they look better than this today!