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Bad week!
09/19/13 at 04:59:10

What a crappy week! Just recovering from borderline pneumonia I decided to go for a short ride to this park on my bike. All the medicine they gave me caused me to fall asleep with my head on a picnic table. I awoke with like 50 mosquito bites on my arms. Decided to get the heck out of there and forgot to put on my gloves and since it was a nice day I also rode with my visor up. Had a bee sting me in the web of my fingers but the worst was at the same time a yellow jacket got jammed between my cheek and helmet and somehow ended up in my ear and stung me in the ear canal. My face looks like I have a garbage can lid for a ear and let me tell you it hurts! In my panic I threw my helmet on the side of the road and watched it roll down the 50 ft bank into the Sandy River where it floated for about 3 seconds before it sank. Just as well! Wouldn't fit over my swollen head now anyways. I'd have to tuck my ear lobe into my back pack to get it the helmet back on. That is if I had a helmet! Most likely a home for some fish now. :'( :'(

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Pine Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1694 Mississippi, USA Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #1 - 09/19/13 at 06:06:11 OK....now that truly is f'd up... dude. Buy some lotto tickets.. you have hit bottom and are now due for some serious good luck. Yall have no idea how these stories about bees and stinging insects scare me. I aint no sissy.. but having been stung before.. I do not like it.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28662 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #2 - 09/19/13 at 06:11:33 Stinger... Jeepers!... What were you thinking when you chose that name?... ... Psst... cortisone cream is good for bites... ...
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LostArtist Ex Member	Re: Bad week! Reply #3 - 09/19/13 at 06:55:50 feel for ya man, but at least it's all temporary stuff
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Reply #4 - 09/19/13 at 07:24:59

You made some otherwise homeless minnows and mud bugs happy... Run over to the big stealership at PDX, get a good skid lid, and go look at the college girls hanging out at Collins Beach. You'll feel much better.

Tell the folks at the volleyball courts that the older couple with the beagle wrote you a prescription for it... Wink

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Re: Bad week!
Reply #5 - 09/19/13 at 08:21:34

Mosquito bites ?

Hey, we have "tiger mosquitoes" here in Rome who live all year 'round! Tongue

Note the difference with the common mosquito.

My antidote when caught out in the open with 5+ bites on legs and ankles is rubbing alcohol.

Yep! Not only will it take the itch away very quickly, the smell is also yecch! to the mosquitoes and they stay away.

Good for going to sleep with windows open, too... Wink

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Re: Bad week!
Reply #6 - 09/19/13 at 10:55:31

Sorry for your woes, but I got one. After a short ride Sunday, I was pushing the bike up a short incline into the shop, felt a pop in my shoulder. I could not raise my arm, hurt pretty bad too. Diagnosis, torn rotator cuff in my left arm. Had my right shoulder repaired two years ago, based on that it may mean 5-6 months off the bike. I live in the southeastern USA, with Global Warming I'll miss a lot of riding, and wrenching, and working, not to mention Income!

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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #7 - 09/19/13 at 16:14:35 Goodness..... Reminds me of a sign I saw posted on the bulletin board down at the market: LOST OUR HOUSE DOG MOSTLY BALD BUT A FEW STRAY PATCHES OF GRAY FUR BLIND IN LEFT EYE, MISSING RIGHT REAR LEG DOES NOT BITE, HAS NO TEETH ANSWERS TO THE NAME LUCKY
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #8 - 09/19/13 at 16:16:21 Stinger, did the "near pneumonia" thing involve endless prolonged coughing spasms?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Bad week! Reply #9 - 09/19/13 at 20:01:37 Going for a ride is rejuvenating, BUT, riding when youre really crapped out is an invitation to a crash,, Thats how I wrecked my Guzzi,, I was so pooped & frazzled I was not even on the rightr road..
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Reply #10 - 09/19/13 at 20:18:51

Tape some Benedryl tablets somewhere on your bike. With all the mosquito bites and stings you're lucky you didn't have an allergic reaction. You can live 40 years and not be allercgic to bee stings and then one day, ouch. It happened. Is easy to find a place inside the battery cover to tape pain killers, benedryl, band aids, 81mg aspirin and such. Could save your life. I had one allergic reaction and just made it to the emergency room with my throat almost swelled shut. Scary feeling. I've had a heart attack but I was at work and they had 81mg aspirin and nitro pills. The places I like to ride rarely even have a country store.

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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #11 - 09/19/13 at 20:40:34 jcstokes wrote on 09/19/13 at 16:16:21: Stinger, did the "near pneumonia" thing involve endless prolonged coughing spasms? What, is NZ having a whooping cough epidemic as well? It's killing people in the USA...
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #12 - 09/19/13 at 21:06:42 Dunno if it's whooping cough but there's quite a few here with something like that. I was inoculated against whooping cough as an infant. but I get two hour spasms at night.
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #13 - 09/19/13 at 21:13:47 Late pollen bloom here, Round-up resistant pigweed. Stuff gets 10 feet tall and dumps pollen by the bushel. Feel like my head is going to pop, Loratidine doesn't help much...
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28662 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Bad week! Reply #14 - 09/19/13 at 22:57:16 No response from Stinger yet... Dude,.. you okay?...
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