On Thursday afternoon, my leg was really itchy. I thought I had a bad mosquito bite although it had a black head rather than the regular red top. I was pretty sure I hadn’t scratched enough to make it bleed but it was possible.
Friday morning, at work, I realized that the itchy spot, rather than being the size of a loonie like Thursday evening, was now about 4” by 6”. I was showing a co-worker and she suggested that it might be a spider bite so we Googled it and it did look somewhat similar.
I called my GP but he is away for a few days so I decided to go to the walk-in clinic. The doctor there said that it did look like a spider bite but apparently they usually take about 48 hours to show up. Because I take Willow for a walk each morning up our back field, I probably got it there.
Anyway, the doctor couldn’t decide if I had an infection or an allergic reaction so I am on antibiotics as well as antihistamines. Now that I have 2 days of antibiotics and about 6 doses of Benadryl cream on me, I feel much better - my leg is not as itchy, it doesn’t feel as hot and it is not as swollen as it was but it does still look awful.
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