Random Thoughts XII - This Thread Delivers
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@BCClone I'm betting you got into the chiggers - I had an episode with them a couple weeks ago. The itching kept me awake at night! Get yourself some Benadryl topical ointment, it worked for me.
Busted my tailend the last three days getting these projects done for the due day of today. Find out from a side source that the date was changed. Was confirmed last night that I have until tuesday. Thanks for letting me know afterwards.
Getting pumped for the weekend....going to Lambeau Field for the big Packer/Viking showdown on Sunday. We will watch ISU/OU Saturday at Andruzzi's in Green Bay. Sounds like a glorious weekend weather-wise, too. Go Pack go!!!
Do they look like mosquitoes? Didn't know they made benadryl ointment. I was at a game Monday and a friends wife was saying she had the same issues. We couldn't get anything to stop the itching. Didn't want to drink benadryl since we both get knocked out by it. We wondered if rubbing benadryl on our ankles would work. I tried one, it kinda works but you are a sticky mess with it.
They are larvae of a certain mite. You can hardly see them on your skin, they're red and clump together. They live on grass and as you walk through, they get on your legs. Then they inject something into your skin, which kills the skin cells and they eat it.
But yeah, the itch is unending and lasts for several days. Even after the itch stops you will see the red sores for about a week. The Benadryl ointment really helped me. Takes about 15-20 minutes to start working.
Absorbine Jr. (the liquid) works pretty well on itches, but it has alcohol in it so burns, too. It's actually marketed for muscle aches and pains but works well to stop itching. https://www.absorbinejr.com/
This works pretty good too. It has alcohol and you drink it.
Come to think of it, Makers Mark might so the trick as well.
I use benadryl gel when I get poison ivy. I put it on, then let it dry. Seems to work pretty good.
I got to work on that movie set for a couple of days. To say I worked on the set is probably misleading since I was sent off to some location shots after they were done filming to clean up. I did get to go in the house which was totally stripped down. They had the on site offices in there and a room with some of the catering. The barn was pretty normal inside. If I remember correctly they had the carpentry shop set up in there. I got to see them rigging up the fence that gets pulled out of the ground as the stars run by and them try to get the pump house to fly apart as designed.
We had a guy get chiggers on RAGBRAI one year. He was sitting on the grass and got them all over his ass. It had to be a miserable ride for him.
So my foot problem is that I stubbed my little toe last night, and now I'm wondering if I broke it. It's still "painful" while resting, and it just seems like it's laying weird against my fourth toe.
Painful = me sitting and concentrating on whether it hurts or not. Dang it...was pondering about getting a pedicure before Sunday, too.
Painful = me sitting and concentrating on whether it hurts or not. Dang it...was pondering about getting a pedicure before Sunday, too.
SCyclone will tell you to rub some Benadryl ointment on it.
BC will tell you to go to the ER cause he digs hanging out there.
KC will tell you to have it looked at by a real doctor*.
Boxster says tape it to your #4 toe cause it's broken.
* Note, you can do the doctor thing without losing your man card cause your a gal and don't have to deal with that stupid stuff.
And Lawman will tell you to just drink the scotch.SCyclone will tell you to rub some Benadryl ointment on it.
BC will tell you to go to the ER cause he digs hanging out there.
KC will tell you to have it looked at by a real doctor*.
Boxster says tape it to your #4 toe cause it's broken.
* Note, you can do the doctor thing without losing your man card cause your a gal and don't have to deal with that stupid stuff.
I have only ever broken one bone in my body. It is my little toe and I confirmed breaking it the first time when I was a school kid and went to the doctor. They (a la Boxster) taped it to the next toe so I have never gone back when I have (unconfirmed) broken it again. It is now a crooked little thing that hardly has any flexibility at all.
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