Posted by Charm_AL on 6/30/05 8:36am
Msg #48975

yawn...

where is everyone? I'm bored, sitting here waiting for 2 sets of e-docs...one for 1PM and the lender doesn't know it yet, but the borrower changed the time from 5 to 1. The company won't even be open til 9:30 my time.
Maybe I'll quit drinking this coffee

Reply by Markita-MI on 6/30/05 8:47am
Msg #48979

Sigh....

I am doing the same. Waiting for docs for a closing at 12 est. I definitely don't need any coffee. I am already bouncing off the walls as it is.

Make it a great day--Charm AL!

Reply by IL-Not on 6/30/05 8:52am
Msg #48980

You must be bored Charm. You have been quick and sharp on the answers this morning. I'm bored also but that is because my phone is not ringing. Hopefully it will pick up after the holiday. Oh look, my mug is empty....... gotta refill.

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 8:53am
Msg #48982

Re: Time zones

It's not even 8:00 here yet.

Reply by DellaCA on 6/30/05 10:01am
Msg #48996

Re: Time zones

Its now 8 a.m. for me and I'll join you for coffee before I go mow the lawn before it get to hot out there.

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 11:59am
Msg #49041

Re: lawn mowing, spider bites OT

I mowed the lawn last night -- I hate having the trash picked up on Thursday! I just got back from Doctor because I had some *bite* over the weekend and now it is welted up like the size of a half dollar. It doesn't hurt, doesn't sting, but it's ugly. For the past two years, Colorado has been the worst state hit with West Nile. We have a friend who luckily survived, but it was off and on for quite some time. They still don't know what will happen down the line. So of course, my imagination has been working overtime. I just paid my $20 co-pay for the piece of mind to find that it is *probably* a spider bite and is on the down-hill side of healing.

Reply by Ernest_CT on 6/30/05 12:06pm
Msg #49046

Yuck!

Hope the bite heals quickly and there are no long-lasting effects!

It doesn't help us in CT to have the constant reminder that Lyme Disease is named for (wait for it, wait for it) Lyme, CT. Every time we feel or discover a bite, we ask ourselves the same question.

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 12:24pm
Msg #49053

Re: Yuck!

Thanks, already it feels better that I know I don't have West Nile or some skin eating infection -- you know how mind over matter controls everything.

I was working for a lawyer at the time who was from Connnecticut. One of the holidays, I can't remember which one, he decided to take his family back for a visit. His wife was afraid to fly so she and the kids took the train. Somehow, I don't know how, on the train the baby got Lyme Disease.

Reply by Ernest_CT on 6/30/05 12:40pm
Msg #49063

Men sana in corpora sana

(HisHughness will correct that, I'm sure!)

Bummer for the baby to have gotten Lyme disease! It is believable that the kidlet got bitten on the train. The ticks can hitch a ride on anything. Most likely a person had the tick on shoes or pants (or maybe on a pet), and the tick found its way onto the baby.

Reply by missy_socal on 6/30/05 3:13pm
Msg #49099

...only a spider bite

Sheesh! Spider bites absolutely freak me out. I'm an avid rose gardener, and on an antique rose gardening forum that I occasionally peruse someone posted pictures of their spider bite. It was absolutely gruesome!
Those pictures just stuck in my mind....especially if I'm hauling around bags of manure, or lifted old pots, etc. We have a million black widows around our house for some reason...I spray, and I generally don't like to use poison.

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 3:30pm
Msg #49101

Re: ...only a spider bite

Yeah, signing onto the internet this morning and searching for insect/spider bites and seeing the pictures of the brown recluse (sp?) bite, is what convinced me to call the Doctor. They told me that I had get there in 20 minutes because he was leaving for the holiday. I wasn't dressed and threw on a pair of jeans and t-shirt. My hair was still wet from getting out of the shower, and I didn't put on my "face" -- I figured if I was going to lose my leg to a spider bite or flesh eating disease or lose my life to West Nile, makeup was immaterial. It usually takes 25 minutes to get to the Doctor/Hospital, and I made it this morning in 15.

We had a bunch of black widows when I was growing up, but I haven't seen one in ages.

Reply by missy_socal on 6/30/05 3:47pm
Msg #49104

Re: ...only a spider bite

That's what the pictures were of...the brown recluse! I would have exceeded the speed limit, too!

If you've ever watched Venom ER on the Animal Planet channel, you'd probably never step outside again. :-) My daughter adores that channel, and I got sucked into watching it with her. Yikes!

Reply by DellaCa on 6/30/05 3:53pm
Msg #49105

Re: Spiders!!

I come back to all this spider talk OH My, My lawn is looking very spiffy for the holiday week end no sight of any 8 legged critters either.

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 4:13pm
Msg #49108

Re: Spiders!!

It all started started when I explained why I couldn't take you up on the invite to have coffee. Glad your lawn tooks spiffy and no spiders.

Reply by Charm_AL on 6/30/05 4:15pm
Msg #49109

Re: Spiders!!

Hubby took three good bites in bed, swelled up like boils...took a long time to heal

Reply by CarolynCO on 6/30/05 5:00pm
Msg #49126

Re: Spiders!!

Gee thanks. Actually, I think the red and purple is going down -- it's only about 2 inches wide and a little over an inch high now, but the hole, I'm assuming the bite in the middle, is about 1/4". Doctor told me not to put anything on it or bandage it -- seems strange to me, but ...

On Tuesday, I made a table salt paste (salt and water) and plastered it on top -- which works great for wasp or bee stings, btw. When I told the Doctor he kind of rolled his eyes, but he admitted that it probably helped keep it from getting infected.