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Help, please...
9:04 AM, Wednesday, 13 December, 2006
cue: owie!
Last night I was stung by a bee.
It landed in my hair and I brushed it out but it stung me on my finger, right in the middle joint of my middle finger. It hurt Quite A Bit. I said 'owie, I've been stung by a bee!' and pulled the sting out of my finger. It still hurt lots so I ran it under cold water for a while and it hurt less.
I did notice, though, that there was a tiny little beesdick of a beesting still in my finger...
This morning when I woke up it was still a bit Hurtie. Then I noticed that I can't bend my middle finger properly. Then I noticed that my middle finger is somewhat swollen. Not too much, just enough to make it look abnormally fat and ugly. I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure that my finger isn't normally that abnormally fat and ugly. If I put my other middle finger over the top of it (and give myself a double bird) I can see it sticking out underneath. Where the beesdick of beesting is, there is a little spot of blood sitting under the skin like when you jam your finger in something and it makes one of those icky blisters full of blood. And it's all red and hurtie.
Which brings me to the question: At what point does a beesdick of a beesting still stuck in your finger, making it swollen and Hurtie, justify going to the doctor? Does the doctor have to take the beesdick of a beesting out of my finger? What if he can't find the beesdick of beesting - beesdicks by their very nature are really quite small!
If I decided to go to the doctor I would have to call up the international insurance company and tell them about my beesdick of a beesting and feel that I would sound somewhat silly. Talking about beesdicks of beestings and all.
At what point in all of this will my middle finger be rendered useless, completely stunting my career as a world-class ukulele player let alone limiting insulting gestures to my left hand?
Is my finger going to Fall Off???
Am I being a hypochondriac? I believe that it's a Problem when one's finger doesn't bend properly and is Hurtie, and is swollen and ugly. And last time something stupid like this happened and I got a teeny-tiny-ant-sized scratch it turned into a tropical ulcer, and I don't want anything dramatic like that happening again.
So in the meantime I'm going to pretend it didn't happen and leave it to Responsible Members Of The Public to tell me what to do. I may stick it in a few people's faces to see what they say, too. Thankyou.
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Comments
have you taken an antihystamine?
Posted by: sabine | December 13, 2006 9:57 AM
No... should I? That sounds interesting, non-invasive, easy and non doctor visiting to tell him about my beesdick of a beesting.
hmm...
Posted by: Carolyn | December 13, 2006 10:05 AM
I hope you have taken your fabulous mother's advice and taken yourself off to see a doctor by now! Consider yourself told off if you haven't.
Posted by: sabine | December 14, 2006 8:00 AM
Well... Um... I took an antihystamine this morning, I'm a good girl!
It's not super-hurtie, nor is it hurtie-ow. It's just hurtie, with a bit of itchiness. And swelling.
I'm going to pretend that it isn't there, and see how it goes. I still haven't tried digging the rest of the stinger out...
Posted by: Carolyn | December 14, 2006 8:41 AM
Since you insist on not seeing a doctor, could you please get a bee to sting you on the middle finger of your other hand. Don't want you to be unsymmetrical! that is like so 2006B.C.
Posted by: Yehia | December 14, 2006 1:01 PM
I am glad you took the antihystamine - that probably is going to do as much as a doctor could possibly do anyway.
Although I second Ya's advice, get a matching one.
Posted by: Katia | December 14, 2006 4:25 PM