Eh, I feel like its not so bad after the first few times. I did get bell's palsy last time, and I walked around looking like a stroke victim for a bit, but not that bad all in all.
Though it is conceivable that the same behavior will get me infected again now that I live in SF instead of CT, the much lower deer population has meant that I've not had a single tick bite in 3 years since living here. The one weekend I went back to visit my mom, I got one helping her clean up fallen tree branches in the lawn whilst being observed by a herd of deer.