Went to take my boots off last night to find my socks and leg encrusted with blood, jeans soaked! Frantically cleared it up ...no pain whatsoever btw....to find a HOLE in my leg! Still no pain this morning, ...I have been walking in long wet grass and bush...what could it be?
Cheers
Dee
Hole in my leg!
-
GregnDee
- Posts: 508
- Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:32 am
- Location: Always travelling
-
GregnDee
- Posts: 508
- Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:32 am
- Location: Always travelling
-
Shirley
- Posts: 4555
- Joined: Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:06 pm
- Location: Lake Macquarie. NSW.
- Has thanked: 15 times
- Been thanked: 26 times
Re: Hole in my leg!
Always carry salt in the back pack, leeches don't like it & come off easy.
Not a nice experience, our g'son ended up with several on him in Woko N.P.NSW.
Not a nice experience, our g'son ended up with several on him in Woko N.P.NSW.
Shirley & Bruce.
-
Dot
- Posts: 24722
- Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:12 pm
- Location: Strathalbyn SA
- Been thanked: 37 times
Re: Hole in my leg!
Another meaning to "suck it and see" at least you gave some poor creature a feed 
Queen of the Banal & OT chatter and proud of it. If it offends you then tough titty titty bang bang.
-
T1 Terry
- Posts: 15968
- Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2012 3:44 pm
- Location: Mannum South Australia by the beautiful Murray River
- Has thanked: 50 times
- Been thanked: 30 times
Re: Hole in my leg!
A part of going swimming in any country creek or dam, always take the salt with you. The body can produce a lot of blood on demand, the leach doesn't eat much, hardly a problem really. Much prefer the leaches to the ticks, they are nasty buggers, metho and cotton wool for them, they back out into the ball of metho soaked cotton wool, no holes to speak of and no poison pumped in, put the cotton wool ball on the ground and lite it, a cremation sending the tick onto the spirit world
A person may fail many times, they only become a failure when they blame someone else John Burrows
Those who struggle to become a leader, rarely know a clear direction forward for anyone but themselves
Those who struggle to become a leader, rarely know a clear direction forward for anyone but themselves
-
GregnDee
- Posts: 508
- Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:32 am
- Location: Always travelling
Re: Hole in my leg!
Thanks guys, no sympathy I see......I'm not walking in long wet grass ever again! Gross!
-
dapope
- Posts: 2019
- Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:43 pm
- Location: N.F.A.
Re: Hole in my leg!
Course ya will!!GregnDee wrote:Thanks guys, no sympathy I see......I'm not walking in long wet grass ever again! Gross!
Do you think it was a government one?
I mean, you never noticed at the time, and it only left you with a mess to clean up.....
Wobblybox on wheels
Pace Arrow. La de da, property in two continents..
Pace Arrow. La de da, property in two continents..
-
GregnDee
- Posts: 508
- Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:32 am
- Location: Always travelling
-
Dot
- Posts: 24722
- Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:12 pm
- Location: Strathalbyn SA
- Been thanked: 37 times
Re: Hole in my leg!
OK come on guys, lets be nice to someone if only just for once I will be brave and be the first to offer my sympathy to you dear Dee for being so savagely attacked by that slimy little sucker, hope you did not fall prey to anaemia as a result and you lose your fear of tramping through the bush again. How was that? 
I will be brave and be the first to offer my sympathy to you dear Dee for being so savagely attacked by that slimy little sucker, hope you did not fall prey to anaemia as a result and you lose your fear of tramping through the bush again. How was that? Queen of the Banal & OT chatter and proud of it. If it offends you then tough titty titty bang bang.
-
Izabarack
- Posts: 169
- Joined: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:28 pm
Re: Hole in my leg!
Bushwalking group abandoned a 3 day hike recently when one of the party had a bad reaction to a leech in the eye. The whole group was picking the buggars off and at least three of us got leeches in their eyes. How's that for yuckky?GregnDee wrote:Yuk yuk yuk
Iza