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Do Antibiotics Prevent You from Getting Lyme Disease?

I live in a Lyme-tick-rich place – central Massachusetts. I know many people who have gotten Lyme disease from a tick. I recently had a tick bite me and, on testing the tick, the tick did have Lyme disease in it. I was on antibiotics – Doxycycline – within three days. Do antibiotics prevent you

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What Do Constellations Look Like from Other Planets?

What do constellations look like from other planets? That’s an intriguing question that has inspired many sky-watchers. We have two probes – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 – which are past the furthest planets. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/world/... Neptune is 2.9 billion miles away. The probe is 12.1 billion miles away – so much, much further. Even so,

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 16 – Flying Home

It was the last day of our trip. Day 16. Tuesday, April 19th, 2022. Today was the day of our flights home. My mother, my sister, and I all had valid plane tickets. We all had negative COVID tests in hand. Mom and Jenn were flying Delta from Fiumicino (Rome) Italy direct to Atlanta, to

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 15 – COVID Testing in Rome

We were now at Monday, April 18th, 2022. This was our last full day in Rome, Italy. We would be flying home on Tuesday. That meant that we were required to get a proctored COVID test today. Well, we could get one Tuesday morning, but it’s better to be prepared. As things stood right now,

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 14 – Easter in Rome

Here we were. Sunday, April 17th, 2022, and it was Easter Sunday. We were in Rome, Italy. My mother, my sister, and I were all together again, and we were all testing negative for COVID. Jenn was feeling better. We could all fly home together on Tuesday. Our world was settling down. We’d been warned

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 13 – Basilica di San Clemente

It was now Saturday, April 16th, 2022. Mom and I woke up in our rental apartment on Via Marco Aurelio in Rome, two blocks away from the Roman Colosseum. Jenn was a short distance away, COVID-positive, at the Golden Tulip hotel. The future was unknown. All we knew was that Mom and I still had

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 12 – Disembarkation in Italy

Disembarkation day after a long cruise can be a mix of emotions. It’s a sad farewell to the ship and its floating lifestyle. It’s an eagerness to explore the port city for a few days before heading back home. But on Friday, April 15th, 2022, we had a much more mixed set of emotions. When

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 11 – Day at Sea

The day before disembarkation is traditionally the sad day on a cruise. The day when everything is coming to an end. Sure, there might be activities going on, but in the back of your mind you always know that it’s the final day. In this case, things weren’t quite as sad, though. It was Thursday

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 10 – Cartagena Spain

If you’ve ever been on a cruise, you know the way time strangely works. When you start the cruise, it seems like you have a vast number of days to explore the world. Then, in the blink of an eye, you’re already on your last port of call. How did it happen?? Where did the

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Oceania Riviera Cruise Day 9 – Cadiz Spain

In a way, Day 9 on our Oceania Riviera cruise was a sad day. On this day, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, we were SUPPOSED to be in Morocco. Morocco!! Amazing city! Historic! A key reason we signed up for this cruise was to be able to visit Morocco. But it was not meant to be.

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