Whatever You Do, Don't Scream

I left the door to the backyard open for 30 seconds, and saw a mouse running into my home. I was able to use a broom to get it to go back outside. However, at one point it ran at me, I couldn't help myself and screamed. Now I am experiencing ear fullness in my bad ear.

Whatever you do, try not to scream...

 

Did you get better?

 

Omg, look at bb Bill Bauer.

 

Scream 4 was the best one.

 

What if Bill see's that you called him a big baby? He might scream.

 

His initials literally make up BB. But, If he does... he better have prednisone handy.

 

I did.

It's not my Actual name...

 

It is to me. Notice the crown in my avatar? You have no say.

 

Bill, Bill. You're lucky it was just ear fullness and not pants fullness.

Mouses....sheesh...

Now had it been a spider...............

 

I don't understand people who are afraid of mouses and rats. They are so cute. I would have caught the fellow and cuddled him

Then again, I know fears are irrational sometimes.

 

Mice amuse me; rats I tend to have a mutual respect with. I let the cats deal with both. That said, mice here are the primary vector of deer ticks in their nymph phase, and deer ticks carry lyme which is devastating to humans. So, I do go to some trouble to scatter poisoned mouse bedding around ("tick tubes"); this is harmless to the mice but kills the ticks. That's probably going to be part of my afternoon today, this needs to be done in April and Sept.

Now robins -- let me tell you, we have insanely aggressive robins here, to the point that last spring I had one which would dive bomb me every time I went to get the lawnmower, and I carried a "robin stick" to keep him at bay. I have never seen such tiny, high-pitched animals being so indignantly violent before. They like to crash into the door and windows to the house at 5:30 AM, and my wife literally had to talk me out of walking outside with a gun at like 545 one day this week, because I was at the point of "I want to sleep and I am going to shoot every last one of you". I am glad she talked me down...

As for the topic here; I think shouting a lot inside a small enclosed space isn't very good, but corollary discharge interneurons prevent the sound of our own voice as a general rule from causing us problems. Obviously this is a brain mechanism like anything else and so I'm sure it could be miswired or broken in some people. That said, I have spent a lot of time in the last 10 years screaming basically at the top of my lungs, either out of rage, or, more often, to make myself heard over small gasoline engines and pneumatic devices, and it's never caused me any problems. We're all different, but this is one I'm not gonna worry about.

My wife yelling right in my ear when she doesn't like something about how I am driving, on the other hand....

 

Spider?

 

We are not Kindred Spirits, TheDanishGirl.

 

They can bite and spread disease.

They can also carry ticks that could give you Lyme disease...

If not for those concerns, I would absolutely want to cuddle, pet, and feed it.

 

Rats are disgusting creatures and spread the black plague.

 

Any chance it's Billie Bauer? When I first read the story, and saw a man's name, I got a huge laugh out of it.

Sorry, but men don't scream over a mouse.

 

Wow don't pick BB.

 

The fact that I am a man and that I Had screamed, proves that you don't know what you are talking about.

By the way, I Had gotten out of my car and had talked to and whistled at an adult northern Vancouver Island black bear that was grazing on berries less than 3 meters away from me. I continued doing that even after it pretended to charge me and until it decided that it had had enough and left. This was one of the dumber things that I had done, but is that manly enough for you?

 

I don't like rats or mice but have never screamed when I've seen one. Rats on the farm and mice coming in the house I'm moving into. Probably trapped over 30 mice. Dead mouse smell is disgusting. Got some professional type traps now.

Do you think Bruce Jenner would scream if he/she seen a mouse?

 

Would the mouse be the one screaming?

 

I didn't scream when I Saw one. I went and got the broom. I screamed when, unexpectedly, instead of running away from me, it dashed At me. It was a scream of disgust and surprise.

 

This thread reminds me of the Pizza Rat video that went viral about 4 or 5 years ago.

 

Real men only drink booze and fight on the streets! Like real men! With bare knuckles! Are you a real man?

 

This may be way off topic, but does a bullseye rash always mean Lyme disease, and can it go undetected for a long time without completely crippling someone?

This post just reminded me, a long time ago (I think nearly 10 years ago) I got bit by something that left me with a bullseye rash, but I never thought much of it at the time. I asked my doctor about testing for it years later, but he refused to order the test and told me "people with Lyme typically get very ill" and that Lyme is not common in my state.

 

I typed it in, just bulleye's rash and the first thing to pop up was Lyme disease, though it says it's not always associated with Lyme, but it is a big indicator.

 

no...

yes, very much.

Well, it could have been lyme, could also not have been. There are a couple different Lyme tests, but it is a very hard organism to test for (have a relation who was relatively destroyed by it, and it took like 6 tests to show positive on Western Blot, I can't remember if they also did the LYMEX test or whatever the better one is).

I have tick exposure and have looked into the testing, but I'm negative on Western Blot and doing the most extensive (and still nowhere near 100%) testing would have cost a fortune, and my tinnitus and visual snow predate my tick exposure, so...


Lyme is one of the few things where the average data you get about it online is probably worse than tinnitus.

 

I think it's Katherine Jenner... I saw her, when she was a him, in 1976 in Montreal. I also saw Sugar Ray Leonard and Howerd Cosell. I live in a country where lots of hers are hims, I mean... hims are hers. It's really common here in SE Asia. We get deadly centipedes, seriously scary, they will crawl into bed and bite you where the sun don't shine. Snakes are fairly common as well. Red ants that will devour your flesh. How the hell did I end up here, besides all the creepy crawly creatures it's noisy as hell. There's no shame in screaming Bill Bauer. And there's no shame in wearing a miniskirt when you're hauling ass on your motorbike @just1morething, you never know when you need a fix for some sultry Mongolian food.

 

If my girlfriend was there she would have eaten it for lunch.
I would have given it some cheese, the special kind that does not spike tinnitus.

 

I've thought about getting a test for it, but in my area doctors flat out refuse to order it because Lyme isn't common here and I don't have any severe symptoms. The rash was so long ago and I don't have any evidence of it.

 

well.

You might not have gotten lyme. You might have gotten it, and your body fucking killed it like it's supposed to (tinfoil insanity about island-based CIA run bioweapons programs aside, descriptions of Lyme exist in documents from the 1700s, so it's been around a while).

In any case -- the relative I know who had it -- got bitten by like 20 ticks, thought nothing of it except "gross", and then over the 6-12 months later their health spiraled, they were having insane joint pain and neuropathy that required massive opioids and still left them bedridden, and it took long term antibiotics to actually deal with it. When people get it bad, it's really bad, and I don't think you would just have zero symptoms and then develop lyme-based tinnitus after an acoustic trauma.

So, probably just stop thinking about it; if really curious, you could try the Cowden protocol or something and see what it does.