bed bug update

okay, i promise, someday i will stop blogging about this, but i am having some rather severe reaction to these and it's making things a little all consuming.

it is so bad that i am not at work today. the second week into a new job. you know it has to be bad for that to happen. i have a doctor's appointment at 3:45, i'm hoping she gives me some kind of magic miracle drug that makes the huge ugly agonizing welts go away. we'll see.

i'll update you in this post when i get back from the doctor (because i know you're all waiting with baited breath). Then, then i'll try and post something witty and clever and interesting after having some more booze (seems to be a reasonable way to stop noticing the welts).

**********UPDATE ON THE UPDATE**************

so, do you think it's a bad sign when you are explaining what's going on and what happened to your doctor and she just nods knowingly and then you lift up your pant let to show her the welts and she says "oh my god!" in a kind of emphatic surpised way? yeah. me too.

anyway, she told me to double up on anti-hitimines particularly the kind that make you drowsy 'cause they're better with itch and she gave me steroid cream to put on the welts. she also suggested vinegar and water cold compresses to deal with the itch. the steroid cream doesn't do anything for the itchyness, just makes the suckers heal.

and that my friends should be the last of my bed bug posts.