I left the calamine at work. Could try ice or baking soda. This site is just infested with fire ants, worst I've seen in NC outside the coastal area. Nasty little fuckers.
Note to self: religion freaky.
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smonster - Oct 27, 2010 11:43:38 pm PDT #6812 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 28, 2010 12:01:12 am PDT #6813 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Ouch, smonster - that all sounds nasty. Ice is probably worth a try. There's a cream you can get for itching that numbs the area slightly - I have completely forgotten what it's called, but it worked when I was in Ireland one summer and got eaten whole by mozzies. Hope you feel better!
Much no-more-surgery-needed~ma for your mom, P-C.
Jars - Oct 28, 2010 12:46:58 am PDT #6814 of 30000
When I got hella poison ivy this summer I used my mouth ulcer gel - anbesol - to soothe the worst of it when I just couldn't handle it anymore. It's 20% lidocaine.
Shir - Oct 28, 2010 3:23:10 am PDT #6815 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
So much is happening at the moment and most of it is awesome, but I don't have the time to sit down and type and elaborate. So I want a plug in for my brain directly to b.org, please.
In the meantime, my ~ma to those of you who need it and their families.
Calli - Oct 28, 2010 3:25:08 am PDT #6816 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry smonster. I hope you got some sleep between your last post and now.
I'm also sorry about your phone, amyth. I'm quite happy with my 3G. If you'd like to make a pilgrimage to the Store of Apple this weekend, just let me know. I'll be happy to drive. (I'll be dropping my sister off at the airport around 3ish, Saturday, but I should be free after that.)
WindSparrow - Oct 28, 2010 3:40:40 am PDT #6817 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Shir, I'm glad you have awesome things happening in your life right now, even if they make you too busy to spend a lot of time here. Good to see even a brief update from you.
smonster, I hope you got some rest. I know I got some good out of putting baking soda on scorpion stings, so I would expect it to help with the ant bites too. Oooooh, just had a thought. One of the times I got stung, my doctor told me that putting Neosporin on the site draws out the toxin - don't know if ant venom is similar enough to scorpion venom for that to work, but if you've got access to Neosporin Plus, there would at least be some numbing action.
I think there were other things I want to say, but the gronk she is mighty.
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2010 4:49:15 am PDT #6818 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
P-C, lots of hip~ma for your mom. That company is in my hometown--in fact, several of my relatives work there. Sorry it happened and she has to go through that surgery again!
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2010 4:52:13 am PDT #6819 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
See, P-C? Your white devil internet friend's relatives broke your mother! What if you had married one of them? That's why you can't be trusted to make these decisions.
Ginger - Oct 28, 2010 5:20:01 am PDT #6820 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That company is in my hometown
I didn't realize that both DePuy and Biomet are there. How did that become the artificial joint capital of the world?
sj - Oct 28, 2010 5:54:26 am PDT #6821 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Called the SS office this morning to inform them I am getting married next month. It wasn't as traumatic as I was expecting it to be.