It took me into the evening to shake the Benedryl effects. At least now I’m clear-headed, and the sting is just a red spot on my palm.
The house is a wreck. We had not yet recovered from unpacking from the trip when we realized we had lost the car title to the Subaru, which we have to turn in today…
It remains lost. Our living room is buried under boxes of old records we have searched.
A Dell repairman is coming in 3 hours to try to fix the mis-designed trackpoint cap on my NEW machine, which is darned near unusable, and without which the machine is useless to me.
With luck, however, we should get a call that our car is ready.
And the dealer will replace the title.
Little red spot is good. I have one too.
Today i learned that the ‘lesion’ on my upper thigh, where i couldn’t really see it, was a tick(!). And its been there eight days! Went to the doctors’, and got a locum student. I said, “At first i thought it was a tick, but then decided it was a mole.” She said, “No, its a tick”.
Ack!! Funny thing was, she was apparently a bit phobic about creepy crawly things and had to get a colleague to come take it out. Bloody thing was wriggling in the specimen jar. To be honest, i came over a bit phobic at that point too….
At any rate, now i have a little red spot and am very glad — and hoping it doesn’t get bigger. Apparently, here in Norway, only a few ticks have Lymes Disease so we are fairly confident i should be fine. As long as the little red spot stays little…
Critters, eh? Nature, brown in tooth, claw and little wriggly bits.
Hoping this marks a close on both your, and my, wee critter encounters for a while!
best
rhys
ps. enjoy the new machinery!
holy crud!!!! a NEW machine and you gotta get a tech out to fix a major point already????? GRRRRRR!!!!!!
hope you don’t have any more wildlife encounters that lead to doses of benadryl!
oh i HATE searching for ONE piece of paper! we had to do that in dec when my husband finally got the offer to move from contractor to perm position and the company does a nexus/lexus background check – had to not only find all his dutch certificates and the naturlization cert but then translate all the certificates for them ;P
rhysmhor – i DETEST ticks, among other things! i certainly understand the locum student’s reluctance and your becoming a bit phobic about creepy-crawly things as well! UGH! hopefully you don’t have any issue with lymes disease! i used to love to hike thru the woods, play in streams, etc until new england started having a problem with lime disease infected ticks in the early 80’s. hope you have no new creepy/crawly critter encounters any time soon!
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I’ve found ticks in the worst spots, it seems. Was working on my brother’s car out when I lived on the farm, and picked up a couple. One I found attached to my abdomen, at the waistline later on. The next day, I found another one crawling on the rim of the toilet…….I have no idea how she got there, but she did a terrible imitation of Greg Louganis and hit the water, whereupon she immediately became united with the other creepy crawlies in the septic tank.
We used to get them on Guam a lot, at least, the dogs got them, and it was always a royal pain to get them out, but with patience, steady pulling, and not jerking them or squeezing them too hard, you can get them to back out. The hot matchhead is supposed to work, but it never did for me, and besides, YOU try to put a hot matchhead next to your dog’s face and see how long the dog quietly sits there on your lap.