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Well, on Sunday, I decided to go explore the arboretum since the weather was beautiful for once (it's been a very rainy June). I was quite happy to wander around the area until I felt a sharp stab of pain. I looked down at my legs (I was wearing capris) and discovered there were at least six big bugs feasting on my ankle. I brushed them off, leaving blood smeared all over my ankle, brushed off another one on my leg and decided to cut my walk short. I got back to the car and used a wet wipe to wipe the blood off, leaving small bite marks, but nothing more. I breathed a sigh of relief that I didn't seem to be allergic to them, and looked them up on my phone to discover that the bugs had been deer flies. All was fine until the next day when each bite (and there were several more than the bugs I'd seen) began to swell, and itch, and cause me pain. Turns out I was very allergic to them, it just took my body while to figure it out since it had never encountered deer flies before. It felt almost exactly like being bitten by bed bugs again (which I am terrified of), so on top of the loss of sleep due to itchiness and pain, there was also loss of sleep due to anxiety. Luckily, I had some steroid cream around from my last encounter with poison ivy so treatment with that every day has caused the bites to finally start shrinking today, but it has been a rough week despite me not doing much of anything.

I also apparently have anxiety about Hannibal since I kept dreaming something horrible happened in last night's episode (which I can't watch on Thursday because I have no television so I wait until Friday to watch on Hulu). I'm going to watch it now so at least any anxiety dreams will be accurate.