I sleep in my underwear. One morning this past week I woke up in the middle of the night, needed to pee, and was sweat soaked down there, nothing new. But I also noticed a bump on my scrotum, probably a rash. I went to the bathroom, peed, cleaned down there, went back to bed starkers, and got myself bathed down there.

Last couple of nights it was bothering me more, itching and not burning, but slightly painful. Kept my pants open to air it out in hopes of it healing faster. When I did that last night I got my first good look at it. I thought, pimple, but the base was purple and the white part in the center was standing proud, like a small skin tag.

I had this on my shoulder a year or two ago, and it wasn't no skin tag.

Wife drove me to the hospital and confirmed my suspicion, it was a tick.

I had a small tiny little tick on my glorious ball sack.

Ruined an otherwise nice evening. But it's gone now.

When I checked in to the ER (hospital emergency room for those of you in Rio Linda) the nurse who took my info, my blood pressure and blood oxygen, looked down my throat, looked up my address, told me that ticks were the order of the day. Seems they were overwhelmed with tick cases yesterday.

But it's feeling much better now.