Bruce, You should find an infectious disease doctor and get tested (probably for lots of things). Plus I’m sure you will be an infectious disease Drs favorite patient and maybe a life long project (as long as it lasts) – they get tired of AIDS and Hepatitis patients day after day.
Geary From: bmorgan...@aol.com [mailto:bmorgan...@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 8:39 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Triatoma The three months Ann and I recently spent in the high west were an interbugnum, one of those rare times in our lives when nothing was biting us. We arrived back home in Florida to discover that the entire inside of our house had turned blue and our bed was a pustulent pulsating blue green blob. I stripped off the sheets in horror and was enveloped in a choking cloud of spores that almost induced anaphylactic shock. I yanked the windows open and ran out onto the porch to gasp for air and get a fan. Hours later I ventured back in to put on new sheets. We were exhausted from having slept on the ground for the previous three months so it was time for bed. When I awoke I was still groggy from antihistamines, jet lag, and spore induced bronchitis. As I staggered over to my stack of tee shirts (also blue from mold) I felt something on my neck which I supposed to be a spider so I brushed it off but when I looked down at the floor there was nothing there. I thought that was odd because at Weazelworld spiders and humans live in perfect harmony, they never bother me and I never bother them. But where was the spider? About twenty minutes later while drinking my coffee I gradually became aware of a terrible itch on the back of my neck. I had been scratching at it for several minutes before even being aware of what I was doing. I had clawed my skin raw where half a dozen angry red welts were rapidly rising on my neck. Dr. Ann confirmed what I already supposed, that I had been fed upon by one or more Triatoma sanguisugas. They live in pairs and may even be monogamous. They had a very good meal so they have gone to tend their brood and haven’t been back. But they are still out there and they will be back. Sleaze
