From Jacob's Facebook

15 December 2010

My friends we are living with in Costa Rica pulled a parasite/worm out of there 2 years old rear end. As in a mosquito laid an egg or planted a maggot in his right bum cheek and started the worm began to 'feast' in it new warm environment. All kinds of fun happening down here.

As some of you have seen from our blog we live out in a beautiful home in the jungle. The down side to that has been some of the insect issues. Right now is mosquito season and we happen to be the nearest easy blood for miles around. We wok...e up one morning to find at least 30 siquito bites on each of the kids. We tried various deet free bug sprays, a natural vanilla formula but without much success. We then tried a 5% deet formula but it was almost useless. After pulling the parasite worm out of one Jame's rear end we stopped fooling around. We bought a bug zapper, got mosiquito netting, plug in Raid repellent for each room, and purchased a can of Off Deep Woods Formula (25% Deet. After all we are in the deep woods). We had so many bugs inside at this point that we would get swarmed just turning on a light after dusk. So contrary to instructions we set up the bug zapper in the kitchen and a marvelous time cheering as each little blood sucker got zapped and burned. The netting was somewhat successful (if the kids don't roll out of it in there sleep) and with the Deep Woods Off they each have fewer than 5 or 6 new bug bites in the morning. After 3 days of leaving the zapper inside we killed most of them so the zapper is now outside. We can now use the lights at night without a problem. We are still examining the children each day for unnatural bumps in their skin that would indicate a maggot nest.

The week before the dog had to go to the vet. He pulled 15 worms out of her. Can't let your pets sleep outside during 'siquito season. So my wife, all the kids, and the Royal family watched and lear...ned. When it came time to do it for one of the children it was my 8 year old daughter Mary who remember the step by step procedure or that the vet said to put Vaseline over the hole so the parasite can't breath. Amazing what children can recall. So our wives followed Mary's instructions and it worked!

(Tiffanie here - want to see more parasitic flies? Two videos on YouTube - Here and Here - apologies that they swear some in the second video.)