At this time we as parents had no clue that a tick had gotten in my child's hair.

Michelle Burke Russo avec Becky Hoychick et 6 autres personnes

As baseball  season approaches again these pictures below brought back some memories from last season. For most of you that are looking at this picture and saying why does she have a picture of a tick let me explain to you why. Last year we were at the park in Slidell playing a tournament. Landon of course being a boy was playing in a big sand pile near the woods. At this time we as parents had no clue that a tick had gotten in my child's hair. That following Sunday we were in Lafayette playing in another tournament and my baby couldn't walk. He started limping at first and then his left leg started dragging to where he could not stand up on it. After a little observation I knew this wasn't right and headed straight to the ER. The first hospital gave us the runaround and said he just had a little virus and that he would get over it and was sending him home . Kelly and I both disagreed on this and decided to go to Children's Hospital. We were there for 12 hour running every test possible. Landon was not getting any better the left side of his body and mouth we're starting to drag and he was drooling..Again the doctors could not figure out he was going on and was sending him home stating that he had a virus and it just had to take its course. As parents we both knew this was not right as they were giving us to discharge papers I slid my fingers through his hair and hit something with my nail and sure enough there it was a tick. My son was going in to tick paralysis shutting down his entire body. When I told the doctor to look he immediately felt the relief, pulled the tick from his head and I will NEVER forget these words from his mouth "momma you just saved your son's life" Landon immediately started getting better. Why am I putting this on Facebook again well this is the time last year that we went through this with him and I just want to warn all parents that if your kids are playing near the woods or anywhere not just at the park just to do a common check with the kids hair. This pic below is a deer tick and if god didn't guide my hand through my child's hair Landon would not be here today.