I do remember very well what happened next. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was out in the yard, pulling weeds. My husband had been fussing that I was not supposed to be "working" on a Sunday, but I felt we called it "working" for lack of a better word, but it was not really working. But it bothered me. At a certain point I stood up, looked at the sky, and said something like "Lord, if it is wrong to work in the yard, You let me know". Almost instantly I felt the familiar sting, my right foot was completely covered with fire ants and they were biting like crazy. I washed them off with the hose and, looking at my foot, figured it would be so swollen in the morning that I would not be able to put my shoes on. Then I remembered what I had read and, since I had used roll-on deodorant with baking soda for years, I figured I had nothing to lose. I went in the house and covered my foot with the deodorant. To my surprise, the next morning I did not have any blisters. Well, to be honest, I had one. It was higher than my ankle and it was obvious I had missed it the day before. It was so amazing, I have carried a bottle of roll on in my pocket book ever since. You don't know the number of children I have treated with it! I also keep one with the garden tools. Believe me, IT WORKS!
Good advice!
Heh, I have been having my insect encounters with a hornet and two honeybees lately, and I have to admit, the honeybees are pretty mild in comparison from a pain perspective. Just this past weekend, one flew down the back of the collar of my shirt, and my wife thought I was going to wreck the car. It stung me, and having it wiggle was worse than the pain, which wasn’t much.
My encounter with the hornet, while far more painful, was funnier in retrospect, because we were driving down a road, and the hornet dropped onto the seat right between my legs, which were bare because I was wearing shorts.
As I watched (also checking the road ahead, behind and beside me, if one can have one eye doing one thing and the other something else) that damn thing crawled this way and that, then, as I had raised my ass off the seat, it climbed right in and up to my butt crack!
I slammed on the brakes (there were no cars around me) and that blasted thing stung me three times, each one a lot more painful than the honeybee sting, but not as painful as those ants.
I must say, it unnerved me so see that hornet walk right into my shorts and feel it walk up my leg to the...er...junction!
Got your Faith strengthened also huh?
I know your story bolstered mine.
God may not always give us the answer we want, but He always answers!
LOL :)