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February 22, 2006
On pity parties and the sense that I'm ready to leave one now
This week I'm getting a crash course in "dealing with it". There's nothing like health problems and neverending bug bites to really unveil the depth and breadth, or in my case thinness and narrowness, of one's character. I am just now trying to crawl out of the mire of feeling sorry for myself and actually realize the sun is still shining, and there still remains a wealth of things for which gratitude is most called. There still remain outcrops, for example, where mites do not live. I don't know where they are, and if I did, I would be there, but just knowing they exist brings a small kind of ecstacy.
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eeek! i don't envy you. hope the little critters find a new home soon... and hope it's NOT MINE!
Posted by: tonya | Feb 23, 2006 2:49:02 PM
What a nightmare. Sounds like Kafka.
Posted by: Fran aka Redondowriter | Feb 24, 2006 10:08:49 AM
The word is that mites don't bite.... It might be useful to talk with your local health department.
http://www.healthquoteplus.com/generic38.html
http://www.generalx.com/mislpst1.html
Last year we had something called "no-see-ums" That bite and made us miserable.
http://www.griffin.peachnet.edu/ga/cobb/Horticulture/Factsheets/noseeums/noseeums.htm
http://pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Arthropod/NOSEEUM.htm
You have lots of sympathy!
Hope you find a solution soon!
Posted by: endment | Feb 26, 2006 2:22:29 AM
oh, bless you dear one!!
Posted by: Jennifer | Feb 26, 2006 3:24:05 PM
Thanks for your sympathies! Kafka indeed! Endment, thanks for the links--I'll check them out. The health department came last week and took a specimen I had collected a couple months ago on a window sill (before sealing the window frame, of course). They did identify it as a rat mite. Let's cross our fingers all the sealing of everything worked, and this last round of bites is the last live generation of these critters in our home!
Posted by: Kristin | Feb 26, 2006 10:02:44 PM
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