A large black ant crawled in my arm yesterday at the park and bit me. I crushed it and was sad about having crushed it, and also slightly annoyed at its having bitten me.
Today, however, as I was leaving the house, I discovered a large welt on my arm where the ant had bitten me, roughly an inch in diameter. I put stuff on it and head out. My mom was worried when she saw it, and she kept checking on it throughout the afternoon and evening. She felt like it might have gotten a bit larger throughout the day. However, her eyesight isn’t great, so this is not a reliable guesstimate. To me, it felt to be roughly the same as when I had discovered it. However, I couldn’t really see it due to its location.
Fortunately, I just got this supposedly great homeopathic insect bite stuff (for my daughter, but anyone can use it). So, I took the drops tonight and also put one directly on the welt for extra treatment, as directed by the doctor who had originally recommended it to us (also for ant bites).
I also looked up ant bite reaction photos on yahoo (because my phone is having a severe issue with Google right now due to something about server identity and verifying it or establishing a reliable connection with it… so my phone tells me all throughout the day, supposedly because of my IP address assigned to me phone by the phone company being messed up or something…), and found that a mild local reaction (“Localised urticarialreaction to ants”) can look almost exactly like the welt on my arm. So, that was a relief to have it mostly confirmed, as well as to learn that it is still no cause for concern, though it could last up to ten days(!).
I’m hoping it will be gone by tomorrow night.
God, heal me, please. Keep my husband and child safe and well, please, and show us the next step forward, please. In your name, we pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2025
hannah ananas 