➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

Are you Italian? All Italian women have burn scars on their arms from cooking.

HAH! No, Irish/Scottish heritage, and very clumsy.

 

[NanaKat]

I think I got bit by a spider.

I actually have no idea if it’s a spider bite lol. It’s just a big painful red lump on my ankle that appeared overnight.

If it is brown recluse (fiddleback) apply a mixture of a crushed nitroglycerin tablet (heart) and Neosporin to the bite area and cover with a bandaid to keep the ointment on the bite. The spider bite de-oxygenates the flesh. The nitro/Neosporin re-oxygenates the area. May have to reApply over several days. One of my wonderful doctors thought of the mixture and it works.
The brown recluse doesn't spin a web, but likes dark places like barns, under beds, closets, attics,or in cabinets. Nasty bites.

 

[Conan]

HAH! No, Irish/Scottish heritage, and very clumsy.

Hey, me too!!! On both counts. I was totally one of those kids with bandaids on their knees at all times. I once slipped on my way to the bus stop and ended up with a chunk of gravel stuck in my forehead in addition to road rash on my hands. I used to swing on my mom's big potted plant that she had hung by the stairs. I would run, leap and swing like Tarzan off the other side. She constantly told me not to do this. Once, when we were home alone, I did it (of course) and the pot came off the hook and broke on my head. Blood EVERYWHERE! Sliced the side of my face open and my forehead. I remember my dad losing his $hit when he pulled up on his motorcycle and saw his daughter on the deck screaming and covered in blood.
I have fallen out of trees, fallen out of trees into other trees, fallen off four wheelers, multiple bike accidents including one where my brakes went out in the middle of the woods and my leg got impaled and stuck to a tree. That was disgusting pulling my leg off and having a huge hole. Not to mention I was in the middle of the woods and had to wrap my leg with tree leaves (fat lotta good that did). Think I was in third grade on that one.
Walked into a pile of plywood in the dark sneaking out of the tree house and bashed my shin something fierce, slipped off a rope swing and fell on the mud bank instead of into the water, pretended to be a dancer on my bed and used my bed frame as a pole - it snapped and I went flying across the room and all the skin on my hand slid up around my wrist... I mean, I could go on, but I've rambled long enough.

 

[Tesumph]

If it is brown recluse (fiddleback) apply a mixture of a crushed nitroglycerin tablet (heart) and Neosporin to the bite area and cover with a bandaid to keep the ointment on the bite. The spider bite de-oxygenates the flesh. The nitro/Neosporin re-oxygenates the area. May have to reApply over several days. One of my wonderful doctors thought of the mixture and it works.
The brown recluse doesn't spin a web, but likes dark places like barns, under beds, closets, attics,or in cabinets. Nasty bites.

Thanks! It doesn’t really look like a brown recluse bite, but I’m not sure anymore. It’s very raised and getting “angrier.”

 

[Kiki]

Hey, me too!!! On both counts. I was totally one of those kids with bandaids on their knees at all times. I once slipped on my way to the bus stop and ended up with a chunk of gravel stuck in my forehead in addition to road rash on my hands. I used to swing on my mom's big potted plant that she had hung by the stairs. I would run, leap and swing like Tarzan off the other side. She constantly told me not to do this. Once, when we were home alone, I did it (of course) and the pot came off the hook and broke on my head. Blood EVERYWHERE! Sliced the side of my face open and my forehead. I remember my dad losing his $hit when he pulled up on his motorcycle and saw his daughter on the deck screaming and covered in blood.
I have fallen out of trees, fallen out of trees into other trees, fallen off four wheelers, multiple bike accidents including one where my brakes went out in the middle of the woods and my leg got impaled and stuck to a tree. That was disgusting pulling my leg off and having a huge hole. Not to mention I was in the middle of the woods and had to wrap my leg with tree leaves (fat lotta good that did). Think I was in third grade on that one.
Walked into a pile of plywood in the dark sneaking out of the tree house and bashed my shin something fierce, slipped off a rope swing and fell on the mud bank instead of into the water, pretended to be a dancer on my bed and used my bed frame as a pole - it snapped and I went flying across the room and all the skin on my hand slid up around my wrist... I mean, I could go on, but I've rambled long enough.

I played Tarzan once too!!
WOOt.
It involved my mother's robe belt tie thing...from the top bunk bed to the door knob.
I fell and broke my leg.
My mom was ready to murder me because the they had to cut off a brand new pair of expensive Guess jeans at the hospital to do surgery!
I was only 6...cast from the tip of my toes all the way up to my crotch. I remember bath times were fun, not...and I remember my dad teaching me how to untwist a wire hanger to use to scratch my leg.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks! It doesn’t really look like a brown recluse bite, but I’m not sure anymore. It’s very raised and getting “angrier.”

Can you pop it?

 

[Tesumph]

Hey, me too!!! On both counts. I was totally one of those kids with bandaids on their knees at all times. I once slipped on my way to the bus stop and ended up with a chunk of gravel stuck in my forehead in addition to road rash on my hands. I used to swing on my mom's big potted plant that she had hung by the stairs. I would run, leap and swing like Tarzan off the other side. She constantly told me not to do this. Once, when we were home alone, I did it (of course) and the pot came off the hook and broke on my head. Blood EVERYWHERE! Sliced the side of my face open and my forehead. I remember my dad losing his $hit when he pulled up on his motorcycle and saw his daughter on the deck screaming and covered in blood.
I have fallen out of trees, fallen out of trees into other trees, fallen off four wheelers, multiple bike accidents including one where my brakes went out in the middle of the woods and my leg got impaled and stuck to a tree. That was disgusting pulling my leg off and having a huge hole. Not to mention I was in the middle of the woods and had to wrap my leg with tree leaves (fat lotta good that did). Think I was in third grade on that one.
Walked into a pile of plywood in the dark sneaking out of the tree house and bashed my shin something fierce, slipped off a rope swing and fell on the mud bank instead of into the water, pretended to be a dancer on my bed and used my bed frame as a pole - it snapped and I went flying across the room and all the skin on my hand slid up around my wrist... I mean, I could go on, but I've rambled long enough.

Oh geez! I’m not THAT clumsy (or adventurous!) hahaha. The little surgery scar on my hand was from tripping over a laptop cord with a plate of ribs and landing on the smashed plate. I had a chunk of ceramic in my hand for two months before finally getting it cut out.
The dog bite on my face is from hugging a moody blue heeler as a little girl.. and its highly probable all the stupid brain issues now are from/were worsened from having multiple concussions in the same month while riding horses as a teenager.
Most of the other scars involve either angry cats or me not knowing how to use a kitchen knife properly (oops).

Of course, bruises are another story. If I had a dollar for every unexplained bruise I get... I could pay off my whole tuition.

 

[Kiki]

Oh geez! I’m not THAT clumsy (or adventurous!) hahaha. The little surgery scar on my hand was from tripping over a laptop cord with a plate of ribs and landing on the smashed plate. I had a chunk of ceramic in my hand for two months before finally getting it cut out.
The dog bite on my face is from hugging a moody blue heeler as a little girl.. and its highly probable all the stupid brain issues now are from/were worsened from having multiple concussions in the same month while riding horses as a teenager.
Most of the other scars involve either angry cats or me not knowing how to use a kitchen knife properly (oops).

Of course, bruises are another story. If I had a dollar for every unexplained bruise I get... I could pay off my whole tuition.

Bruises love me too.

I used to bruise very easily...not so much anymore but I will still sometimes wonder where I get one.

 

[Tesumph]

Can you pop it?

I don’t think so. It’s pretty tender.
See the little bite mark in the middle? The Ginger thinks it’s a bite from a “regular” spider.

What a lovely close up..

 

[Kiki]

I don’t think so. It’s pretty tender.
See the little bite mark in the middle? The Ginger thinks it’s a bite from a “regular” spider.
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Nice!
Does it itch?
Have you tried ice yet?