MIA

sorry we've been MIA. Between crazy travel schedules and work kicking our butts.... its been hard to post. But here is an update: Saturday morning while I was in st. louis I noticed a painful small bump on my arm, just above the elbow, just like a bug bite. In fact I first thought, oh I got a mosquito bite! The bump itself is small, maybe half the size of dime, and it looks like it has a little puncture wound in the middle, and its a tad more elevated than a mosquito bit, and bit harder to the touch. It really hurts to touch it (that is how I noticed it!). It sort of itches around it, but not really. Monday I noticed that the bump is the same size, but its red around it (dime size), then its got a white (well skin colored) ring around that (so that would be nickle size), then another red ring around that, that is flat and wide (maybe a cm wide) - so all together we're talking maybe half dollar size.
I called the docs and they told me to come in this morning . this morning my whole arm was really hurting and the red ring around the bite was bigger. Anyhow, when I went to the docs they told me they thought it was a brown recluse spider bite. So i have to take cephalexin for 10 days and put some steroid cream on it. I feel a little pukey today too, but that's apparently a common reaction to a brown recluse bite.

Other than that, we're all headed off to chicago this weekend for easter - hopefully it will warm up some. suppose to be 32 tomorrow and the day after! our poor flowers!