[Nancy is deeply ill, but recovering, from a poisonous spider bite] Apparently, you live in the country, too. City folk have no idea how ridiculously dangerous it is in nature. An insect so small you can hardly see it can give you a neuro-disorder (Lyme disease) so savage you spend the rest of your shortened life in bed with just the remnants of your mind. Then there's the poisonous spider you encountered; they're common and they like to hide. Or mosquito-borne liver killers. And that's just the short list. I've been chased by a snapping turtle. Had buzzards tear baby animals apart on my front lawn. Every raccoon is rabid and shot on sight by the police. Foxes, same story. And the Allegheny Mound Ant infestation behind our house? Think movie where a cowboy has been staked out to die on a biting ant hill. They are that species of ant. Get well soon.
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You make me laugh too, and did even through that pain, Tom! Thanks.
Posted by: Nancy Schwartz | August 04, 2011 at 10:57 AM