https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/quill/
Today I take up my quill, dip it in best black ink and tell the doleful tale of two attacks upon my person by creatures great and small…
What is it about July 7th and being bitten, eh?
Ten years ago, at around this time in the afternoon, I was being rushed to hospital after being bitten, in the right upper thigh, by a German Shepherd (the dog variety, I hasten to add, not the ovine-protecting Germanic human); today, I have been gnawed, multiple times, by a marauding, Martian (because this lot are sure as hell not from Venus) mob of Mosquitoes.
I woke to find that the little fuckers had been chomping merrily on my right thigh, leaving welts the size of five pence pieces and an area of bruising so vast that I look as if I have been kicked by a horse! These invidious insects have also feasted on my left calf, my right gluteus maximus, left elbow and my head.
I can’t say I am overly chuffed with this level of personal attention from nature…
But at least this time around I have avoided a deep antiseptic washing out of wound, followed by stitches, Tetanus jab – and, a week later, an infection requiring a course of antibiotics!
Chronicles of an Orange-Haired Woman! 
The smaller bites seem worse than the big bites, since they can be all over. I got eaten alive on a camping trip last summer.
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Poor you, Noah: Totally sympathise, having spent much of today eyeing up the cheese-grater as a means of scratching the endless itching! xxx
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I hate them bastards, but actually since men are from Mars and women are from Venus, the mosquitoes that bit you were from Venus as the male mosquitoes don’t bite people.
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Good one! Just goes to show that the old saying about the female being deadlier than the male may have some basis in truth!!
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Ugh…horrible…take care…but I must admit I did chuckle at your depiction of the tales.
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Glad it made you laugh, Jeanne! Yes, they are pretty vile – but I am hoping generous application of toothpaste will deter the greedy little sods!
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Nasty buggers. I’ve a welt on my forearm from a mosquito, and one on my hip from a tick!
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Couldn’t have put it better myself, Alethea!! They get everywhere! xxx
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