…what just crawled on me?
The answer is a blister beetle and it crawled on my back
one night while I was asleep. It didn’t bite me, didn’t sting me, didn’t so
much as ask me out to dinner. It only crawled on me and left what looked like a
six in gash on my back that was really tender to the touch and could be seen
through a white T-shirt.
I guess it works like poison ivy where you only have to
come in contact with it and get a rash. In my case I didn’t realize anything
until I worked out in the morning. I took my shirt off and thought I felt a
pimple forming on my back. I touched it and it just kept on going. Luckily the
pain subsided quickly enough, after a day or two, and it turned into feeling
like a bad cut scabbing over. I’ve only had two strange things happen to me so
far (the first was having Strep-leg) in Africa and I’m going to try to keep a
cap on no more than one hand’s worth.
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