

| Subject: | Stealth camping spot and tick warning |
| From: | Higginbotham, David A. |
| Date: | Tue, 23 May 2006 14:17:47 -0400 |
I never really thought about it until this past month but a good spot for relatively hassle free stealth camping might be a hospital parking lot. I just finished a two week stint living in our bus at the local hospital where my wife was in ICU after contracting ehrlichiosis from a tick bite. You can google it but in short it mimics rocky mountain spotted fever without the spots. She went too long before she saw a doctor and developed Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Sepsis, in short very bad mojo for those of us not initiated to medical lingo. A very traumatic experience indeed but she is home now and on the mend and I can not fully express how much nicer it is to catch a few hours sleep in the bus rather than trying to sleep in the chairs in the ICU waiting room. They would not let me "sleep" in the ICU patient room although I could "stay" all night. The moral of the story: A) monitor your tick bites closely and if you get sick within 5-10 days do NOT hesitate to see a doctor. B) the hospital parking lot is a relatively nice place to live for short periods of time, albeit under better circumstances than a sick loved one. Happy trails, David and Rene' Higginbotham 82 Westfalia Silk Hope, NC
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