My poor 2 yr old!!!

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My 2 yr old, Ryder, was bit by a tick today, for the second time in a year. Last year, we found a tick attached to his face, right under his eye. He was immediately put on preventative antibiotics and thankfully he was fine. Today, as I was changing a poopy diaper, I found a tick embedded into his skin on his butt. I took it out with tweezers, put it in a baggie and ran right over to my county vector control center. they told me there that it was there for over 55 hours!! I change the boy at least 5 times a day and I did not see it until today. She told me that it is probably because it started out so minute that I couldnt have possibly seen it. How scary is that? What if it was in a place that I wouldnt have noticed at all?? Then what??? So now, he is on 30 days of antibiotics because the odds of this tick having Lyme disease is more than 1 in 7 chance. How scary is that? I am so freaked by this. And it doesn't really matter how good you check yourself and your kids, it could be there and you may never see it. I hope and pray that we started his meds early enough so that he doesnt get any disease. Please say a quick prayer for my little boy. My son has been thru a lot in his 2 yrs of life. When he was only 4 weeks old, he had emergency stomach surgery for pyloric stenosis. Then throught the two years, he has been sick a number of times, fallen and hurt himself a few times, and was the one in the car when we had the accident in december that was unconcious for a few minutes. This child scares me. I worry about him so much too because he is the "troubled boy"..lol. I just love my kids to pieces and I cant bear for them to be sick or hurt. I hope that these ticks stay away from us. I pray ever day that I do not find anymore on my kids, or me or my hubby for that matter. It is just a scary thing to have no control over things. I am not a control freak but I like to be able to protect my kids the best I can and I feel that I have failed Ryder by not seeing that tick earlier. 55 hours is a long time!!!