Back in La Manz again. Sunny hot
and humid day... but even with the delayed flight, we are home in time
to make the bed up for the night if I hustled.
Marcia dropped us at
Pam & Greg's where Greg reconnected my car's battery and bingo! off
I drove. My road was excellent (thank you, JR) so no prob there. In
the door and the first job is to clear the furniture off the bed, put
down the mattress, find sheets, etc and be done before dark. Desperate
for some moving air, first I went out to the patio to remove the window
tarps. That done back in I headed, but as is now the norm, (loss of focus) ... I spied
the broom and decided to sweep some of the leaves and debris in the
doorway.
Well, that revealed a scorpion - quite a good size, too,
(3") so I swept it out of the leaves it was hiding in and made to stomp
it. Of course, I missed a perfect footplant with all the debris and its tail whipped up and bam (or maybe bam-bam), it got my next-to-little toe! Oh the pain! It got a second stomp!
I was just outside the door and my pack was on the hall table with
(TG) the few remaining Benadryl tabs I had in WR. I took two, found a bit
of water, grabbed my car keys, rushed out - didn't lock the door, forgot my wallet, left my
suitcase sitting up by the car park and zoomed down to Dennis & Mary's, who
live below me. Mary came with me to the pharmacy - no help there, then on
to the Centro de Salud (clinic) and luckily the DR was still in. By this
time, I could feel the pain travelling up my leg and my throat was closing.
It is a long story of details (killer pain killer, Clorox, milk, mj)
and in the end, I'd had three anti-venom
injections at ± hourly intervals, and spent the night in Mary's guest
room. I had so many meds in me by then, it felt like I was sleeping on
the high seas.
Bright
and early Sunday morning, Mary took me to get my car which we'd left
downtown when it looked like we might be on our way to the clinic in
Cihuatlan (Dennis came to drive) and I went home to make my bed and start cleaning/airing the casa.
I was going to take a photo of the scorpion but the ants, etc had been busy in the night and there weren't many pieces left intact.
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