Mosquitos love me - it is Not Mutual! Freewrite
Mosquitos love me!! I must taste so very, very good to them. There has been more than one occasion when nobody got bitten - but me. Yummy. They used to say that I have sweet blood. What does that mean?
Sugar running through your veins? I don't know. I am not sweet and now, don't eat sweets and still - mosquitos love me.
Now that also means that more diseases can come my way. Blue Nile disease. It is real. People are getting sick every year. Sucks!!!
But not only mosquitos love me.
When we first came to the states, 3 boys and I were traveling together. They had been friends for a long time and I just kind of came along. I needed an excuse to leave Germany and I was too scared to travel to India - where I really wanted to go - by myself. So, I tagged along with these three who had set out to make a life in the US.
Me, I just wanted to travel.
When we were driving across the country - we did a drive away car thing - don't know if they still do that- the boys decided to buy hammocks to sleep in at night.
None of us had much money. I had come with $500 and that was all the money I had to my name. So, hotels, motels anything like that was out!!
The boys got hammocks to string up between trees and I didn't want to stay alone in the car. I tugged in with one of them and we actually had a pretty good sleep. Or the terrible sleep is erased from my memory.
But when we got up in the morning - I was covered with ticks! Ticks, ticks, ticks everywhere! I pulled well over 50 of them out of my body.
And guess what - none of the boys had even one them!!! There is no justice in this world!!
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I can relate to that. I can't stand staying outside at night time if I don't put repellent on my exposed skin. Or else, I will end up full of scratches.. 😞
I try to put essential oil all over me and cover my body. Luckily, we don't have many ticks here in Southern California. But the mosquitos are no fun....
Have you tried mosquito repellent? It's very effective. In my childhood I envy my sisters because they can wear anything. Shorts, sleeveless, spaghetti straps. Haha. But me, always pajamas and tshirt.😁
my wife and daughter's are like you they seem to attract mosquitos and ticks, but me they seem to leave alone
You are the lucky one!!!
Indeed I am but I did get Malaria from one of the few times I was bitten so not totally lucky lol
Oh no!!! That is the bad end of the stick!!
It is one of the negative perks of the job when I worked in the field ;)
But all part of life’s tapestry that makes me who I am :)
So true. All our experiences are part of who we are. Do you still have flare-ups?
I believe so as well
I used to have flare pretty regularly like every 3 to 6 months, then they got less frequent and its been over 18 months since the last one so finger crossed
Oh my! What courage you have. I did not know that your journey started such a way. I'm very happy that you were here in the states, and I hope that one day we can actually meet face-to-face. The chicks alarm me, they are very prevalent around here and one tick bite can cause a severe case of Lyme disease, but 50? I'm glad you did not develop this! Mosquitoes love me as well, we do not share the same love!
I am lucky that this was before the wide spread of Lyme disease! today, that would really freak me out!!! And we will meet in person!! Let's harness the power of crypto...... :)
Your memories makes me wonder about your full and adventurous life.. :-)
Well, part of the reason that I wanted to start writing again is to write some of this down. Just have to get back into a more elegant writing style. We used to go hiking a lot and I entertained my friends by telling them stories of my life and my friend kept telling me to write them down. No time then, I was working all the time.
But this year was weird and strange and with lots of not feeling good times and I used the cancer card on myself. Basically - what if........ How do you want to live your life..... and writing more came up. And here we are - 57 days into the freewrites :)