Question: Hello, Yesterday my husband was doing yard work and thought he had gotten a sliver in his right hip. It turned out to be a tick, with it's head just barely having broken the skin and was easily removed, head intact, between my husbands pinched fingers. Unfortunately, I made him flush the ugly thing immediately so we have no idea what kind of tick it was.We saturated the area with alcohol and then applied triple antibiotic ointment and covered it with a bandage. An hour and a half later we changed the dressing and laid a new coating of the ointment. This morning there was a red circle, with an obvious indentation, and it looked like a fresh burn, perhaps like a cigarette would make, although smaller. Tonight we repeated the ointment and fresh bandage, and find the would is a little larger that a cigarette would leave, still red, but now with an interior circle-ish area that is white, and a black pin point center. I will attach a photo. The total time the tick could have been on my husband could not have been longer that 20 to 30 minutes. I looked at the insect with my jewelers loupe headgear and it was not bloated and filled with blood, and seemed smaller than ones I've seen before, but black, unlike the reddish or pinkish pictures that came up when I looked them up on my computer. We live in Coos Bay Oregon, southern coastal part of the state, the ocean not 1/4 mile away, the bay literally across the driveway. Is there something we should be watching for, something else we should be doing, and are there any tests my husband should submit to? Forgot to mention, the tatoo is on his right buttock, he's had a significant abcess with another recurrence appx. a year later (the x shaped dent) and hip replacement with subsequent avascular necrosis, same right hip, de-coring procedure. I may have gotten the order wrong, could be the procedure then the replacement. Thank you.