i have always had problems with bug bites though. at girls camp i got bit on the shoulder and it swelled up like a baseball. i'm not joking. i wish i had a picture of that. another time in summer we were in utah sitting out by the pool and when i got home i had nine bites on my back -- and no one else out there had any. normally i'm pretty good...they itch like crazy but i never itch them till they bleed or become infected or anything.
so for the past few months i have been ATTACKED. i have fourteen bites at this moment in various stages of itchiness, but i swear to you i have had more than 30 since oh, say, march.
one morning i woke up and one of the bites had grown a huge disgusting blister and was all swelled up.
of course i totally freaked out. (wouldn't you?) i went to the doctor who didn't tell me anything i didn't know and wrote me a prescription for anti-itch cream that i have yet to fill.
i was thinking it was something in our bed so we washed ALL of our bedding and dusted, swept and vacuumed our whole room (dang hardwood floors are hard to clean). i also stopped using this sunless tanning lotion i had been experimenting with because the bites seemed to be popping up in the areas i applied it...all on my arms, lower legs and feet.
things were better for a little while. and then they weren't. that was when seven popped up on my back. let's just say i constantly itch. and it SUCKS.
now i feel itchy. i did see some a little bug land on my foot today so i'm sure more bites will pop up. if anyone has suggestions on anti-itch cream, bug spray, how to de-bug your home, etc. i would love to hear it.
as if that's not traumatic enough for my skin, i spent a day outside at toyota HQ for analyst day and came home looking like this, thanks to a combination of the sun, my pasty cubicle-dweller skin and a bracelet i had been wearing. i'm peeling a little on my arms now.
i swear i keep feeling bugs on my legs. maybe i'm going crazy. but that's the latest update from the body of lyndsey...hope you enjoyed. :(
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Man...that's gross! I wonder if you have bed bugs?? Although...I don't really think those itch. Whatever it is I hope that you get it all figured out.
Crazy! I don't know girl. I have bug bites but I think it's because I've been outside a lot recently. You must be SO sweet and so they love you :) I wish the doctor would've actually tried to figure out what's wrong...
I'm so sorry about your whole bite problem. I don't get them like that but when mosquitos are out, they attack me and they get swollen. So I have some understanding of what you are going through. I do itch them until they bleed.
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