ewwwwwww

our daughter came to me this afternoon and asked me to look at the "bump" on her head.  YUP, it was a TICK - OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!!!!!!!!  I don't like ticks, I don't do ticks, I have not had to get a tick off of my kids in 11 years ... and no, I did not handle it well.

AND, I think I scared the poor child half to death!  I was working on removing it when I felt her getting hotter and hotter, she started to get limp and POOF, she passed out!  Not once, but TWICE ... and the second time I had a really hard time getting her to come around!  Now then, after having a baby who had seizures and then went unconscious, I actually handled the passing out fairly well until I couldn't get her to rouse.  Sure enough, she finally came around ... fortunately before I called 911 ... but MAN, she was green and white and limp and scared the be-jeezus out of me.

AND, I STILL HAD TO GET THAT DRATTED TICK OUT OF HER HEAD!!  It hadn't started getting blood yet, but it was really embedded!  I ended up putting a drop of dishsoap on it and it backed right back out ...

and I burned it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!