My roommate recently fell asleep in a hammock and woke up covered in currently feeding ticks and tick bites from ones that had their fill and left. It's been about 3 weeks since then and he doesn't seem to have any forgone symptoms. It seems odd to me that... is he just lucky?
Over the course of my life (I am in my mid 30s), I have gotten probably 75+ tick bites.
When I was a kid I lived in the country, about 20 minutes from the nearest town and would have a tick-check every time I returned from being outside during the times when ticks are more prevalent.
Many times you would have ticks but they didn't get a chance to bite yet (Thankfully my parents did these tick-checks all the time, I hated it at the time but looking back I understand their concern).
I usually get at least one a year (tick that actually bites me), and although recently (Age 30+) I have been getting them checked out/monitor them more closely than when I was a younger, I've been lucky myself to not get this disease or any other ones related to ticks yet.
If anyone is curious as to this location, I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Wow, I thought if you were not walking next to grass you were safe! Most ticks don't climb higher than about the height of a raccoon because that's where all the hosts are.
