What's mildly irritating you today?

[DanaC]

Thanks guys

I felt a lot better for offloading!

Yes, ortho, he did overstep. But then J often does, bless him. When he is a whirlwind of tension as he is right now, he can be a bit of a pain:P Part of the problem is I never learned the art of just shutting the fuck up and letting his nonsense go over my head. And it's so easy to slip into old arguments over the dog. Because Pilau was ours. And there we were having a standup row about the little brown dog in the room.

I know he's been a right royal pain at home. Clashing with Jan over stoopid shit, and the kids (I say kids the youngest is 17 :P). I know he's had a fallout with Ash, his bessie mate, because Jan told me about it. He may also have had a clash with his dad.

He's quite possibly the kindest and sweetest man I know, but when he's tense and upset about stuff he turns into a growling bear. I just hope he gets this bloody article finished soon and is pleased with it.

[Lamplighter]

Here in the US, they tie growling bears to a helicopter and drop them deep in the woods.

[Ms. Sexton]

my boyfriends new motorcylce... uggggh

[classicman]

...or onto a trampoline.

[Sundae]

My whole right hand is swollen. Even the bases of my fingers have puffed up.
I can no longer see the bones or veins, just puffiness.
I can't hold it down by my side - it throbs too much. Has to be held straight or aloft (even typing is making it itch).
I can't clench effectively as the skin is stretched so tight.

If I do allow my hand to drop it feels like I have broken bones in it (I've done that before, I remember).
Except I know it's just swelling from a bite. I haven't bumped or knocked it even slightly.

My hand feels like it's been replaced with a big rubber clown glove filled with poison.
Mum says when Grandad went to Australia he had a reaction like this to a bite in the same place. He insisted Jimmy took him to A&E and they said exactly what Jimmy had done - standard bite, just a bad reaction. Mum was a bit scoffy about this, but honestly if I was in a foreign country where everything was trying to kill me I'd probably suspect this was the beginning of the end too. Instead I know it's "just" a bite from one of our benign critters, and my system just lurves the drama.

Grrrr.
This is nearly as bad as the hives I had a couple of years ago. Except they were all over and lasted 6 days. I have high hopes I will pass through into mending by tonight.

[Trilby]

I think you should go to the doctor.

Maybe you need some antibiotics.

And some flowers and hugs!

[ZenGum]

Not antibiotics, but possibly antihistamines like phenergan.

Or you could just stiff-upper-lip it through until it goes down. I mean, the Olympics are on, the world is visiting, what are they going to think? That the English have become a bunch of namby-pamby nancy-girls? Not on your life!

[DanaC]

Go and get it looked at. Sooner rather than later.

Mum had an insect bite a couple of years ago that swelled up really bad over a couple of days and before we knew it she was in hospital on a pennicilin drip for cellulitis, with the 'red lines of death' (as the nurse helpfully described them) starting to track up from the site. Next step, septecemia and possible death.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ms. Sexton

my boyfriends new motorcylce... uggggh

What's wrong with it?

[Sundae]

Nah. Although all I say is true, I've been through bites like this before.
It's like when Mrs J & I were both sharpening pencils for a standardised maths test. Mrs Banana sprang on us that morning that each child needed a red, blue, yellow and green pencil. Oh, okay. Only 31 children.

Anyway we more or less halved it. Doing it manually as my electronic sharpener had popped its clogs. I ended up with blisters on one finger and two thumbs. I had the electronic sharpener for a reason. Mrs J? A little sore, but no blisters. She was appalled by mine!

Stoopid skin.
Stoopid body.

I'll see what the pharmacist says in Tesco tomorrow re oral anti-histamines.
Dana I promise I am far too much of a moaner ever to succumb to the red lines of death. Stephen King gives them to his protagonists for even the slightest graze, so I am wary...

[Griff]

Fog on the river
Shindagan is quite perfect
My frame is broken

[Aliantha]

I would go with the anti histamimes too. Phenergan would be my first choice. I'd start popping them asap.

[Sundae]

It's much better this morning.
Still slightly swollen. Still itchy. But I can see the bite-site now - tiny little think to have caused all this reaction.

One of the reasons I may have to decline your invite to Aus. Can you imagine if I was bitten by something that gave normal people this kind of reaction? My skin would split like a sausage!

Fingers (in my left hand) crossed that this is the only affliction I will suffer this summer.
Otherwise I will buy a couple of geckos for my wall

[Aliantha]

Well, we would recommend insect repellent for someone like you Sundae...and probably an epi pen.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Well, we would recommend insect repellent for someone like you Sundae...

Harsh!