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So a few weeks ago D go stung on the head by a wasp in the kitchen.  Strange, but I didn't have alot of sympathy- I mean, it was just a sting.  He said it hurt alot.  I thought he was being a baby.  I also thought it was kind of funny that he had a wasp problem in his kitchen.

Turns out there is a sizable nest in the wall between the brick and the drywall.  This is bad news, as it's pretty hard to get to them.  Additionally, every time anyone opens the cabinet under the sink or the dishwasher an angry wasp flies out.  I was cooking a few days ago while D was doing the dishes.  He likes to use the dish washer as a drying rack.  Every time he opened the dish washer another wasp would fly out.  Usually they go straight for the light and get stuck in the fixture.  I didn't worry about them.  I hadn't been stung by a wasp since I was about 9.  Daniel, however, was quick to get out of the way when the wasps got close to him.

When we were finished in the kitchen we took our food and went out to the living room to watch baseball.  After my second bite I felt something prickly in my shirt.  I wacked it through my shirt, but not hard enough, the wasp which had sneaked into my shirt stung me about two inches below my collar bone just under my neck.  Maybe it stung me a few times, or maybe I'm slightly allergic to wasp stings.

First the sting well, it stung; then it was sort of sore and swollen.  I expected it to hurt some, but it hurt all evening and I even took some pain killers to tame it.  The next morning it was very red and about 2 inches in diameter and slightly raised and VERY itchy.  I tried not to scratch it because it was still a bit tender, but I had to rub it sometimes it was so itchy.

That afternoon D told me he had been out spraying the wasps and he got stung again on the back.  He told me how big and sore his sting was.  I told him mine was big and sore too.  He said it wasn't like his, that his was terrible.  I thought that must be pretty bad so I said, "let me see."  His sting looked like a large mosquito bite, red and about the size of the tip of a pinky finger.  So I showed him my giant, inflamed, crazy itchy sting site.  He said, "Well, at least it's not swollen like mine."  If I had a stinger I would have stung him myself for that remark.

Today the tenderness is gone, but the itchiness is full on.  In my last apartment I used to get 'mystery bites.'  I would get very similar looking marks on my legs, they weren't tender, but they were big and super itchy, but I never knew how I got them.  I figured it was a spider near my bed or something.  Maybe I was getting bit in my sleep.

These bites are so itchy that sometimes when I scratch them I feel like I know how dogs feel when you scratch them and they start thumping their legs and get that dazed look . . . like they are high or something.  Some times I scratch and it feel so good I almost don't mind how annoying the itchiness is.