I discovered something unusual on the back of my left knee this morning. When I got out of the shower, it hurt to run the towel over it. It's kind of hard to see the back of my own knee, so I twisted my leg and craned my head and saw a circle of red, angry looking skin - a bump, really. I don't know why, but my mind instantly decided it might be a blood clot just under the skin.
I went to the bedroom, where J was just getting up (I knew this, because McDuff had started barking a minute before). I asked him to look at my leg. "It hurt when I ran my towel over the back of my leg, so I looked and saw this red bump, and it looked like a blood clot!" He told me of course it wasn't a blood clot, and took a look.
"It looks like a bug bite," he said. "It's raised up and red and there is a black dot in the middle of it." The s word may have been used, but I instantly cringed and shook my head. No, it can't be.
I came into work, and looked up "large bug bites" on Google. I found an exact description of my bump - it's a spider bite. Which means a spider was in my BED with me, while I was sleeping, crawling around on me. *shudder*
I'd almost rather it was a blood clot.
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Lol! I'm sorry you got bit, and I'm sorry I am laughing at you trauma. But really? I'm glad it's not a blood clot.
Aww, thanks. :) I was glad, too, but really freaked out about it being a spider bite. Ick.
You saw my blog about MY spider bite from last week, right? In my ear?! Yeah, still recovering. It's bad enough that it happened while I was sleeping - but IN my ear? C'mon!
In all seriousness: Are you sure you weren't bitten by a tick? "It's raised up and red and there is a black dot in the middle of it," sounds like a tick bite, too (i.e. the black dot could BE the tick). When it gets red like that it could be an early warning sign of Lyme’s Disease. My cousin was just diagnosed, so I kind of have Lyme’s on the brain. Anyway, just FYI…
Eww! I don't think it's a tick bite, no, but I'll have Jim look at it a little more closely to make sure.
And I did see that about your spider bite! So gross! I don't worry too much about them getting on my head, though, because I sleep with a pillow over my head. :) It covers both ears and my eyes. My nose and mouth are still hanging out, so I can breathe, but I try not to think about them getting in there. Ick.
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