holy moly! Wow, well as bad as it was it might have been life threatening if you didn't have that tick with you. Actually I've never heard of anyone knowing when they got bit by one, usually they have no idea and the symptoms get worse and worse and they doctors can't find the problem because they're misdiagnosing them.

But having said that, I've never heard of such bad reaction and symptoms either! You just can't be normal can you Butterfly? You just have to be different! lol.