Wol

I played golf this morning: very warm and, being an old fogey, I sat on the grass a couple of times to rest my weary frame. I have been warned about sitting on the grass in Oz but.............. Anyway, I was wearing shorts.

After drinks in the clubhouse I took to the shower. (This is where the curious lady trolls should leave). As I covered my head with shampoo I felt a sharp - VERY sharp - stabbing in my left testicle (whisper it) and, after getting an eyeful of shampoo, discovered a tick firmly attached and getting ready for lunch.

(Advice: don't try to remove a tick when it's covered with soap, and slippery. Especially when your eyes are full of soap....)

Ten minutes later at the doctor: he was out on call, the other doctor was at the races. The surgery next door had two who were not at the races and a nice young doc took a pair of tweezers to my nuts and after a long, slow, VERY painful pull, removed most of said tick. I've just managed to get the rest of the fangs out myself.

So (typed through tears) - take my advice and DON'T SIT ON THE GRASS.....

Wendy

Ouch!!

(sorry, but when you said brave and men in the same sentence I knew that you wouldn't get many readers )

fionamw

....given that we have a hefty tick-and-short-clad-men population in Spring/Summer, I've placed a reference your post to our forum, hope this is ok!

Possums

OMG

sorry not a very brave man either but

OMG

furkew

sounds like a load of (swollen) bollocks to me

Hope you feel better soon.

moneypenny20

O M G G Another female but can (kind of) feel your pain. Damned if I'd offer to kiss it better though

Scuba Steve

So you got a hole in one?

At least it didn't go straight down the middle.

Did you shout foreskin? etc (sorry)

Kim67

Oh no Wol, hope it wasn't a paralysis tick in that region!!!!

Wol

Amazing the number of ladies who can't help trolling a title like that <g>.

Thanks all - I am feeling sore. Should NSW tick typhus appear you'll be the first to hear!

EvannTel

Smear it (the tic that is) in Vaseline (or get someone else to)

The tics cant breath and will take their ganshers out of you to come up for air.

Do not Vaseline that part of your body in the shower with the fella's after a game of golf.

simon2cairns

hmm sounds a bit S&M tic removal!!

moneypenny20

Women are more than capable of hearing and dealing with the most horrific of stuff. It's just men that would avoid a thread titled "women only". You've had more sympathy from the female fraternity than the men anyway

spartacus

Snort . . . snort!

moneypenny20

See what I mean

Hutch

This anecdote certainly ticked all the boxes for me.