Oh, it was a bite! I thought that you had hurt it somehow... I don’t know if you have fire ants where you are, but we do here... if I get a few of their bites in one place, like my ankle... it is an issue for more than a week...
I didn’t know what it was, at first. My son came over to take some stuff to the post office and when he hugged me he told me I was “burnin’ up, Mom!” My right thumb was very hugh and red, and extremely painful, and as soon as he left, I dragged myself to the sofa and went to sleep for a couple of hours.
Then, for some reason, I thought of brown recluse spiders and began to research them and that’s when I realized it might be a bite. In the meantime, I splinted my hand.
When I woke up, I remembered it wad pill-sorting day. Also, I drink cold bottled water. I couldn’t believe a simple thing like opening a pill vial or a water bottle could put me in such agony!
So I then researched what to do about it: antihistamines, pain killers and cold compresses. Unngh. The bad thing is that Terminix was in the week before. I think they’re using watered down solutions, or just pretending to spray. They did that to us when I lived in Del Rio.
Anyway, when I made the bed yesterday, I sprayed behind the headboard and the end tables, and will do it again in a few days. Just in case.
We probably do have fire ants here, but the climate is such that I don’t spend a lot of time outdoors. One thing I’m going to do when I get back to Utah is get me a lounge chair so I can sit in the shade on nice days and just soak up the warmth without being wet in the process.