My mind was on the task at hand and it was a very hot day. It was right in the middle of the afternoon when I ventured out to go pick blueberries, at my friend’s house. I pulled up to the open field in my pick-up truck, as I glanced at the blueberry bushes there were bee's flying all around my truck. I just sat there inside the truck, waiting for them to fly away! I thought I wished I would have remembered to bring Skin-So-Soft, to repel any bugs off of me.
Anyways, the bees finally flew away after a few moments and I hoped out of the truck, grabbed my baskets, put on my wide brim straw hat and got busy picking blueberries. The sun was really beating down on me as I wedge myself in between the bushes, to reach those big fat berries at the very top of the bushes. Now these blueberry bushes are probably over 6 feet tall and I am only 5 feet 2 inches, so it was a struggle to reaching them. I also had to fight off the red ants that were on the ground. I notice the ants at only one of the bushes, I was picking from.
I think I was there for about an hour picking, maybe a little longer. I really got a lot of blueberries, maybe too many! Can you have too many blueberries? I don't think so! I came home placed the blueberries on the kitchen table and didn't think anymore about them, except when I ate a few, while I made dinner that night.
I jumped in the shower before bed, put on my Pj's and went to bed. I woke up in the early hours of the morning to itching and scratching! I said to my husband, "I think a spider bit me while I was sleeping". I ripped back the blanket and the sheet; I was on a mission to find the little bugger who bit me, but I could not find anything, not a bug to be found. I was so itchy, how could there be no bug, I thought.
I jumped in the shower again, to ease the pain from the bite, with the cool water. When I got out, I had all these welts on my upper thighs, butt, crack of butt and belly. I said to Jeff what the heck could have done this; does a spider bite this many times? I said, "I think it was ants" but there was no evidence of ants or spiders. He said, "it must have been a spider!"
What does a person do next? You got it, they Google bug bites! You know, I am a doctor in my spare time, thanks to Google! Jeff say's "maybe it's bed bugs." I said "oh no"! I left my computer and ran to my bed with a magnifier glass and tore my bed apart! I took the blanket, the sheets, the pillow cases and the bed cover off my bed and I inspected everything with a magnifier glass. I even checked all the seams of the mattress, to find no evidence of anything. Thank you Jesus! I saw a show called Infested, where these people had bed bugs and they could not get rid of bed bugs and I didn't even want to go there.
Back to the computer, I looked up bed bugs, spiders, ants and looked at pictures of bug that have bitten people! You want to get creped out, take a look at pictures of spider bites or bug bites, it will scare the bejesus out of you! That is some scary stuff! People with open leaking wounds, legs and arms amputated because of bug bites. Then there it was for all to see, "chiggers" and chigger bites, with pictures and they looked just like my bites and in the comment section it read, you can get chiggers from picking fruit. In other words pickers can get chiggers! I told you I was a doctor!
Did your mom ever tell you not to pick? Well she was right, don't pick your buggers, scabs, fruit or on your siblings! So don't be a picker! Chiggers and Blueberries, who would have ever thought they would go together, but oh do they ever! I bought 2 kinds of ointments sprays and lotions to treat this horrible thing! Later that night, Jeff and I went to the pharmacists and asked what else could I take orally, to stop the itch. He said, "There really is nothing else you can take." He said, "You could take, clear nail polish and paint each bite, to help!"
So there we are, my husband painting my body with clear nail polish! Our marriage has gone to a whole new level in the past two weeks, between the nail polish and the mustard we have really bonded in a whole new way! Remind me to tell you about the mustard later; it has nothing to do with the chiggers! The nail polish is supposed to pull the chiggers out or suffocate them.
Now here is where men think different than women! Women would see red bumps all over her man and think oh gosh, that is gross, stay away from him and say I am scared! Men on the other hand, see you in your birthday suit, while they paint your bites with polish and think, oh this would be a perfect opportunity to make the best out of this situation and they get frisky! You gotta love um.....don't you?
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