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What's outside of your picture window today?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: May 2 7:38pm | Replies (2367)Comment receiving replies
@sueinmn, @johnbishop, @loribmt, @becsbuddy, and all...
I've been resting all day upstairs in my recliner, on the phone making appts, hiring housekeeper, etc.
You will never guess what I'm now doing. ITCHING! In the last couple hours, I've gotten bitten several times by skeeters! Arm. elbow, back of knee, ankle, thigh......just killed one! I can't slap them 'cause of the arthritis in my fingers/hands/wrists etc. Bought a solar zapper for pario, it helps but not enough. Just got one for inside. I have it hanging in the den/kitchen area off the patio. Good. It catches and dehydrate them!!!! Tiny bit of guilt at killing, but not much at all!
NOw, have another one I ordered should be here tomorrow, plug in to use outside a little and inside upstairs a lot. Also, did you know they make huge fly/skeeter swat zappers? They do! I got 2 yesterday and will have one upstairs, one downstairs as soon as I figure out how to make them work! Now, this is a whole lot of energy expended on killing little biting bugs. Guess what Sue could do with my project????
Just killed one on the laptop screen! i'm getting better...
Love you all. Gotta' go and get some benadryl. CBD cream and to be. elizabeth
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Oh, Elizabeth. You have my empathy!! Those buggers are so awful this year! Since I’ve been tapering off my immunosuppressants, I’m reacting more to the mosquito bites than ever. Each time I get a bite it swells up like half a grapefruit, even after packing with ice.
2 days ago I got a small bite above my eye. Took Benadryl right away and when I woke up yesterday morning, I had a egg sized bump over my eye. It morphed last night into a marshmallow involving my eyelids and area around. LOL. I look like I got decked with a fist!! My husband’s embarrassed to go out with me anywhere for fear someone will think he punched me in the eye. 👀. Hahaha.
For the itching though give the hot spoon trick a try. Actually I use a table knife, more surface area. Anyway, run it under very hot tap water then apply to the bite! It takes the itch away.
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Hi Elizabeth, Our friend @loribmt mentioned the swatters a few weeks ago and I bought a couple of them. Mine is rechargeable and has a flashlight in the handle. Easy to use but never seems to be around when I need it 🙃 You just hold a little button down on the handle and swat the little buggers.