Is anything known about this creature?

by Joseph Bourke
(Contracted it in California)

Is anything known about this creature?

It starts out as a round dot, no bigger than a fullstop. It burrows into the flesh and while under the skin grows a long nose that can get as long as five eights of an inch it draws blood and grows to about one half inch in some cases.


It develops two hind claws which are set at such an angle that it is impossible to dig them out without great pain. They grow more long blood sucking devices with barbs that make them as difficult to pull out as a fish hook.


Does anyone know the Latin name for this creature or whether it is a tick or what?