Tick on wall

I thought it was a tiny spider, grabbed a tissue to kill it, it was a tick!

Girlie, engorged ticks don't get on people, unless it fell off an animal above his head. They drop off! Ticks attach and stay attached until engorged. Then they either start a new phase of the life cycle, or lay eggs. That would worry me!

Not to scare anybody, but ticks can infest houses. Gross! I get worried when I see one inside, but I've never seen more than one every few months. In the last few years, I've found three on my pillow!! Not engorged, thank goodness!

I do (or did, when I could work) deal with a lot of ticks. Hate, hate, hate them, even more now!

They only have one host per life stage. Were you under a tree? Maybe it dropped off a squirrel onto you?

I'm sorry, that would scare me. I don't want to scare you, but you need to know. I don't know about the doxy. I would definitely do it longer!

I'm a vet, so the tick life cycle was drilled into our heads.

It's funny, I've never been overly worried about ticks. I've gotten them my whole life. I just yank them off my kids and me. But you better believe my kids will get doxy when I find another one.

It was big. And it was on the top of my hair...not on my scalp. And to get on our deck, we pass by a tree - mini maple leaf tree (can't remember the name) - and a few branches always touch my hair. We have lots of birds - in the trees - could they have the ticks? I did not see or feel a bite. I checked myself over pretty good...but I guess i could have missed it.
I am treating for a lot longer, so if it did bite me...I should be covered.

Does it matter if it bit me again - if I already have lyme disease anyway?