Can you apply a paste of baking powder to the site, or is it too much of a pain with the location?

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Too much of a pain, especially with how long my hair is now. A friend suggested apple cider vinegar to at least neutralize the worst of it, so I now smell like a salad, but the sting has subsided.

Definite shower in my future though. And Benadryl. Which will make me completely stupid.

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Barb -- ice. ice is the only thing that really helped me not feel the sting for a bit.

Erin- O , just hugs .

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Aw, people. Sorry for the crap end to the weekend.

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Daisy Jane, I just watched Kontroll, and it didn't really hold my interest. It seemed to be a bunch of loosely connected events concerning characters I did not care about. I didn't hate it, and it had its moments, but it wasn't as My Thing as it looked like. I guess I thought there'd be more about the serial killer.

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I...just remembered I can't whitefont on my phone.

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I love it when i sneeze and my little cat mews from wherever he is in the house, then comes running to check me over with his big scared eyes and make sure i'm ok. I have no idea where his concern comes from, the older cat doesn't even twitch his ears when i sneeze, but Mal always needs to make sure i am still here.

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I hope Drew is home and comfy, by now.

Barb, your story is the stuff of nightmares for me. I'm impressed by both you and Lewis. I'm most deeply impressed, though, that this is the first time you've ever been stung. How did you manage that? I'm a bee(ish thing) magnet. I have bad reactions to the stings, too. Not anaphylaxis, but I swell up at the site, like there's a tumor. Benadryl is good idea. A lot of the pain, I think, comes from the body's rejection of the bee venom (or whatever the heck it is).

That'll give you bees: My mom ATE bees once, when I was a kid. We were going to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island on vacation. We stopped just over the Canadian border for lunch. We'd packed these lovely roles and roast beef, etc. The bees must have flown into her sandwich while she was assembling it. She was stung two or three times on the roof of her mouth. On the upside, the hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick is lovely, even if those terrible socialists took good care of her for free.

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I love it when i sneeze and my little cat mews from wherever he is in the house, then comes running to check me over with his big scared eyes and make sure i'm ok.

One of our cats does that. He is the snuggliest cat ever, but after my hysterectomy a couple of years ago, he learned after one request not to try to get on my lap, but to carefully lie next to me. We call him Dr. Zorro.

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Gainesville church that is planning on burning the Koran on Sept 11th.

oh dear god please let this not be true

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