What Rick said. You also want to get checked for anapl. and related ehrlichia as well as babesia along with a lyme workup. In any case, it sucks. Had another brief dose last summer. It sucks.
Along with the extremely mild winter comes the threat of lyme's disease. Seems we've all "been there and done" that now, even with all the precautions. Despite a number of preventative protocols, one of our dogs has picked up one of the other tick born diseases, anaplasmosis, and he's on meds now.
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