Summer is over now. Sadly I have to face this. I removed my dead sunflowers from the balcony last Thursday. I put them in plastic bags to bring them down to the bio-waste container. I grabbed the first bag and felt pain, not too much but enough to let go.
It was a bee that went with it´s last force into my ring-finger! I have never been stung by anything else but mosquitoes (and that a lot!).
I thought a bee-sting would hurt more. I ripped my hand out of the bag, the bee fell on the floor and after I saw what it is I managed to step onto the poor dying insect.
I was frightend a little, but ok.
On the weekend Ingo told me how a bee "stings". That the spine consists of two parts that "sew" themselves into the skin.
Yesterday (!!! It happened on Thursday!) my finger started swelling. I don´t know if I got the spine still in there, there is a dark line. Or did it swell just ´cause the thought of a spine sewing me is that gross?
Gross. Ugh. I remember. I was into flat sharing. I bought some gloves to do the washing up. Never did I have a wart and never since. But when I saw one of my roommates using my gloves, a wart emerged! Ugh!!! Yuck! Gloves to me are something personal! At least those plastic ones! And I didn´t like especially that roomate... I went to the doctor. She said, no problem, we ice it up, a one-minute-job. I was relieved. "It´s like you hit a stovepipe, a minor burning".
??? UGH! Immediately I felt cold. I asked if there was another way to remove the thing. Yes. Some ointment. Takes longer, sometimes doesn´t work. Ok, I want that! She wasn´t happy but gave me a request for the recipe. I had to wait at the counter. I felt dizzy. I told myself, "HEY! You get the ointment!" - Sweat started to run down my forehead. I saw stars - and a free chair. When the doctor saw me she realized I didn´t lie when I said the imagination of getting burned makes me feel sick...
Now. My finger is still thick and hurts a little and there is a dark "line" - imagination or the bee´s spine? Nothing serious. Friday I let my Mom have a look upon.
I just wonder - is it my imagination making my body react?
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