chewed up

mostly on my neck... the insect(s) that did it must love the sweet that comes out of fat cells because this body has a proportionately greater preponderance of fat cells around my neck when compared to the fat cells around any other part of this body (with the belly and torso coming in second and the limbs being scantily clad in fat cells most likely due to the intense running i uses to do throughout this life, but especially as a child and teen when the body form was developing.... in any case, i have itch bite marks soon to be mini-welts forming around the front of the neck and they are quite distracting as they scream louder than the tinnitus that is the constant companion of the left ear... screaming scratch me, scratch me, of course... but i know better (even if my fingers don't) so am doing my best to remain focused on controlling the impulses to send the fingers to the neck to choke the living daylights out of those itches (or at least scratch profusely) cuz scratching only signals the body to send more histamines to make more itchies and that is one vicious cycle i would just as soon as stay out of, thank you very much...

i would be checking happiness for fleas since he was gone all weekend and this just started yesterday when he got back, but he's not itching (yes, the antibiotics do seem to be working for him, yay for minor miracles) and i am not finding bites anywhere but my neck so it is likely a flying critter who loves fat cell juice that must be found and destroyed...

speaking of happiness, is is time to get him out so he stops the begging staring pleading poor dog routine... i shall continue this celebration of 5,000 catch up session later (there's always hope)...