06-28-2008, 07:18 AM
hI was getting crown flower cuttings at Kona K-Mart last weekend & thanks GOD hubby noticed a red pede perched on a leaf...when we looked closely there were pedes everywhere on the hedge! I would have gotten nailed for sure if he hadn't seen them right off the bat.
Like KathyH, I was bitten in my bed. By a *baby* pede. The pain woke me up out of a dead sleep. It was painful for 6 hours - too painful to lean against any part of the left side of my body...easily a 18" radius of ouch from the bite site. it SUCKED. It took me a good 2 weeks to not come flying out of bed whenever something touched me - even my own darn hair! What totally sucked is that i no longer have big mainland shoes to squish them with. I jumped out of bed, knocked it off, then instinctively grabbed a 'shoe'. TUrned out to be my thin, highly dished old slippah. I whacked the pede & it simply pissed him off. Pshaw to that flimsy slippah! I think I ended up killing him with a bottle of shampoo [
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I was told that next time, take a regular hibiscus bloom, crunch it in my hand till it was sticky, then rub it on the bite. It's supposed to help with the pain a little. Note that double or fancy ruffed hibiscus doesn't work. I've used this on all my other bites & it rocks. Takes the sting and itch right of mosquito bites. Hope I'll never have the opportunity to try it on another 'pede bite!
I think mine hitched a ride in my hoodie from the Hot Ponds. I put my hoodie on the wall, but it got knocked onto the ground. I put it on, went home & went straight to bed. I think it crawled off the hoodie, into my hair, then made its way out of my hair into my bed. At least that's what I tell myself to let me sleep at night - I'd be a perpeutal insomniac if I thought it got there just by crawling in the door!! Plus auntie & uncle spray the perimiter of their house every month & I'd never seen one in the house in 9 months of living there. I'm not big on chemicals, but after that bite, I'll risk my health to kill those buggahs with pesticide.
I've been bitten by Black Widow and Brown Recluse - not fun & that centipede ranked right up there. Luckily I had no tissue necrosis or staph with the pede. Counting my blessings.
Like KathyH, I was bitten in my bed. By a *baby* pede. The pain woke me up out of a dead sleep. It was painful for 6 hours - too painful to lean against any part of the left side of my body...easily a 18" radius of ouch from the bite site. it SUCKED. It took me a good 2 weeks to not come flying out of bed whenever something touched me - even my own darn hair! What totally sucked is that i no longer have big mainland shoes to squish them with. I jumped out of bed, knocked it off, then instinctively grabbed a 'shoe'. TUrned out to be my thin, highly dished old slippah. I whacked the pede & it simply pissed him off. Pshaw to that flimsy slippah! I think I ended up killing him with a bottle of shampoo [
]I was told that next time, take a regular hibiscus bloom, crunch it in my hand till it was sticky, then rub it on the bite. It's supposed to help with the pain a little. Note that double or fancy ruffed hibiscus doesn't work. I've used this on all my other bites & it rocks. Takes the sting and itch right of mosquito bites. Hope I'll never have the opportunity to try it on another 'pede bite!
I think mine hitched a ride in my hoodie from the Hot Ponds. I put my hoodie on the wall, but it got knocked onto the ground. I put it on, went home & went straight to bed. I think it crawled off the hoodie, into my hair, then made its way out of my hair into my bed. At least that's what I tell myself to let me sleep at night - I'd be a perpeutal insomniac if I thought it got there just by crawling in the door!! Plus auntie & uncle spray the perimiter of their house every month & I'd never seen one in the house in 9 months of living there. I'm not big on chemicals, but after that bite, I'll risk my health to kill those buggahs with pesticide.
I've been bitten by Black Widow and Brown Recluse - not fun & that centipede ranked right up there. Luckily I had no tissue necrosis or staph with the pede. Counting my blessings.
* I'd rather fail at happiness than succeed at misery *