Pictures of tick and my stomach

These are pictures of the tick that bit me last week and my stomach...I took preventive antibiotics and monitoring the area.

Close encounter of the tick kind....

I was outside yesterday picking up branches and doing yard work for a few hours. Came inside and found an adult female blacklegged deer tick on my stomach... It was engorged and already started feeding on my blood. I removed it with tweezers, kept the tick and will update further. Going to take preventive antibiotics and monitor the area on my stomach...

Rash that occured a year later

This is a picture of a rash that developed almost a year later. This picture was taken in May of 09 and the rash was in the same spot as one of the inital rashes on my left leg. This rash vanished after a few days but I found it interesting the way it appeared and disappeared. The oval and rounded rashes I initially had were very similar to those on the CDC and Canadian Lyme sites and lasted for 4-6 weeks.

According to http://www.jemsekspecialty.com/ "A little recognized fact about the EM rash
is that it can recur, usually in the original site with or without abx therapy in ~ 5 -10% of patients."