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Politics : The Donkey's Inn -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7590)	9/21/2003 9:19:46 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

I felt the insects crawling on me after the hike. Or to put it another way,I felt a burning sensation. Then, I looked and saw hundreds of these critters all over me. As soon as I saw them, I jumped in the tub and scrubbed myself with a small brush. My mom threw my clothes in the washing machine and loaned me clean ones. When we got back to our hotel we jumped in the pool and then I took another plunge the the next day as well. We got rid of the dots after a day. I don't believe I had any insects on me when I returned to Seattle. There were chiggers where I grew up so I am surprised my family never mentioned them. I got chiggers when I was a kid, but it was never as bad as this. Chiggers were little red critters. When I was a kid, I could identify them. My uncle also told me that ticks can be as small as dots so we don't really know what we had. However, on the same day, I found one insect crawling around on me that was as big as a tick. My husband has not been feeling well so he may have visit his doctor as well. He has been using my cortisone but he isn't taken the same prescription antihistamine. What a hassle!