Posted on 05/15/2023 11:01:41 AM PDT by libh8er
Rumors that I had a heart attack are completely false. I am alive and healthy.
6:13 AM · May 15, 2023
The poster seems to have had a lot of cats turn up at her house.
Oh wow! Those bites can be awful! Good that you recovered!
Good idea to keep spraying... what product are you using?
Oh, I see, it is still a problem, I thought that it had completely passed... hopefully it will clear up soon!
Good Sunday Morning!
Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there!
This was a tricky one that I should have gotten on the third row, but I stupidly ignored a yellow square.... doh!
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No, it hasn’t passed completely. Depending on one’s immune system, brown recluse bites can be extremely toxic and if not watched carefully, they can cause necrotic skin which then has to be removed. Hence, the Polysporin.
I’ll have to keep an eye on it for at least the next week, because anything that can cause a fever in ME, can be a real problem. CFIDS causes the person to have an overactive immune system, so what would normally bother someone else doesn’t bother us. Like any strain of flu. I think I’ve had three colds in the last 30 years, and no flu.
So yes, I feel better, yes, it’s healing nicely, but no, I’m not out of the woods yet! ;o]
My personal choice, if I have one, is Hot Shot, but I usually put diatomaceous earth down in the apartment when I first move in and that takes care of any insect problems. I just didn’t lay down another dose of it the following year.
I think commercial insect sprayers mess with the stuff because when they spray, you always see critters. With the earth, they walk through it clean themselves and each other and die. My kind of pest control!
Bill the Son called from New York. He’s doing fine: working, playing volleyball, bicycling, and delivering meals for the Anarchist Food Bank. (This can be logically challenging because anarchists.)
Tom the other Son and his laundry have left for home. He said he has a job interview tomorrow for a similar job with a different company that would pay more and have better hours.
It sounds as if Bill is doing great in the Big City!
He’s brave, for sure.
Here’s hoping Tom passes his Other Interview with Flying Colors so he can be far enough away so that your laundry facilities are too much bother.
James was at his dad’s today, so I was able to give him his Christmas and birthday presents, all of which he thoroughly enjoyed. A Captain America figurine, a container of purple salt since he likes colored salt so well, a cheap little acrylic ball with the solar system in it that sits on a stand that lights up, and I think that was all. It’s hard to keep track of stuff.
He’s officially divorced so Sweet Abbie is gone from our lives but her choice. He has been dating another girl, but I’ll be the last to know anything.
So off to bed I am because Wash Day!
I’m sorry about Abbie. Maybe if she’d had a different step-mother-in-law ...
Hope you have a good night!
I enjoy thinking about Bill trying to organize the Anarchist Collective. It’s great that he’s doing something to help people.
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Prayers for JimRob.
Thanks, Darks.
It was probably too dysfunctional to last, anyway. I saw some things in her at the beginning that sent my hackles up but talked myself out of it because I figured they’d work it out between themselves.
Turns out, she was every bit as immature as I figured she was. I love her and she was always good to me, so I’ll always have a soft spot for her.
Oddly enough, she got on famously with her mother-in-law. But then birds of a feather...
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Happy Monday, Wordle Fans!
Today’s word is, well, a little on the challenging side. My brain has been a little off-kilter the last few days, and this is the best I could do this morning.
Here’s hoping you’re much better at it than I am!
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Ahh, yes, I have known a couple of folks that have had those bites. They are a very serious type of injury, hoping that your healing continues along...
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Yes, we have used those Hot Shot products in the past, and they usually worked well... Lately though, it seems that none of the available consumer insect sprays work all that well... it is like they have ‘watered’ them down, or changed the formula somehow...
As an example, not that long ago, if you sprayed an active wasp nest with one of the wasp sprays, they would get coated up with the foam and pretty much all fall to the ground dead (or very close to dead).... now, it seems that they get coated up, and fly away... not sure if they eventually die or not...
Thank you both for the ping...
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