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I had my best year numbers-wise – finding over 700 caches in 2009.
Here are a few personal highlights:
I found my first international caches in Canada, Mexico, Cayman Islands, and Jamaica.
I really enjoyed my first mega-geocaching event in West Bend as well as attending my first WGA event (fall picnic)!Congrats! … and you picked a great milestone cache to mark the occasion!
Congrats on reaching a great milestone!
Congrats Johnny! Great year!
Great way to mark a milestone! Congrats!
I would have liked to have joined you but I had to stay close to home because of work responsibilities.
Congrats!
Congrats! I’m sure you worked hard to get this milestone done before the end of the year.
The game was great fun. Brett Favre played decently and the Vikings won handily.
Too bad my FF team was eliminated from the playoffs so I couldn’t even root on Carson Palmer.
… and if it smooshed that easily, I would guess that it was probably some sort of beetle rather than a tick. Deer ticks don’t squish very easily either (unless perhaps it was engorged – but then it would not appear black).
The symptoms of the disease are not what is interesting. Most healthy people can fight off Ehrlichia without even knowing they are sick. For people who are immunocompromised, the disease usually has fevers (>101 degrees), headaches and muscle aches. Abnormalities in blood counts and liver enzymes are common. It is easily treated with certain antibiotics. I mentioned that there are no chronic forms – so either you have a complete recovery within 2 weeks or, very rarely, people can die if they are not started on the preferred antibiotics (usually doxycycline) quickly. The illness should have completely run its course within 2 weeks. You can only get these disease once in your lifetime.
Generally, if someone is healthy enough to be out in the woods geocaching, they are likely to be able to fight off this disease. As an aside, I heard that 2 of the 3 cases of the newest disease had had organ transplants.
There certainly seem to be some hypochondriacs on this site! lol
It is my personal hypothesis that the diseases have been here all along but we simply didn’t recognize they existed. As our medical technologies improve, we are able to differentiate diseases better. Frankly no one has really looked closely at what has been out there. While I find this to be exciting information for a scientist, this information will certainly not keep me out of the woods. Personally I had 6 deer tick bites this year and did not put myself on antibiotics for any of these bites.
Sorry if I caused any of you to get worried.
As best I could estimate, we only got around 4 inches of craphas up here. Grantsburg is too far west to get the lake effect enhancement which cheezehead probably got.
It was still enough to cancel school so my kids were happy this morning.
Ticks are present all year round. However, this time of year, they tend to live in the leaf litter and only get active when the temperatures rise above 50-60 degrees. Now that the snow has arrived, it will be hard to find one until spring.
Congrats! It was nice seeing you Sunday! I was surprised you didn’t mention the milestone.
I just got a Motorola Droid. Does anyone else have one of these? I’m still learning how to use it and haven’t even figured out if there is a geocaching app for it yet.
Congrats on the milestone!
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