Insect bites, center water blister.

For an entire month maybe once or twice a week, I have been bitten by some unknown sneaky bug that leaves a center water blister and a huge red swollen area around the blister, maybe  the size of a half dollar coin.  I have been putting neosporin on it but would love to know what is biting me.  I woke up this morning with 3 extra bites.  I knew about the one on my wrist which has already started to blister.  I am thinking of going to the doctor but don't want to look like a wacko going in for nothing.  However, I absolutely hate insects and they seem to love me with the bites.

The itching  seems to happen when I am in the backyard (lots of trees and bushes).  So, might be getting bit there first then the bites get worse as time goes by.  They leave scabby cicular scars.  The skin looks healed but very dark.

Anyone else with this experience or should I just head to the doctor.  Can't really afford it but tired of the bites and the scars they are leaving.  Thanks.

• Insect bites, center water blister. - sm
  • I know what you're talking about...sm - HomeMT
    • I thought of that too. - homeMT2. sm
  • spider? - hq
    • Could be. There are spiders everywhere... - homeMT2
      • BlisterS? - Frankie
        • Blistering Bites - Craig

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When I worked in-house, our production level was less because we had to answer the phone and the door.  Even working at home for a hospital, we were only required to do approximately 110 lines per hour.  Of course, it was easy to do more.

It sounds like they're jerking you around in regard to your pregnancy.  That could be illegal.  Understandably, it is difficult to work and care for a child at the same time.  Do you have anything in writing about the daily production levels?  As for the routing, you might even have a larger pool of dictators if you work for a national.  For the most part, routing and carbon copies are all listed in your account specs to refer back to, however.

Do you use a word expander?  I wonder if that would help you out.  Maybe that's why they keep raising the production level is because some of the MTs are using Expanders and really knocking out the lines.

I think you'd be happier working at home with your baby.  I wish I had done it sooner because I wasted so much time working outside the home, being resentful, feeling guilty over leaving my kids at daycare, and going to college to find a bigger, better paycheck.  I started out slow in MT because I only had to make around $700 gross per month to equal what I would have made after daycare at my old job.

Well, you don't worry about any of this right now.  Taking care of yourself and that baby are your first priorities.  You didn't mention a significant other, but don't let anybody tell you that you have to work fulltime.  I always thought I had to work fulltime to be a productive member of society because it was drilled into my head by my family.  Being a good mother is a fulltime job in itself.  No stressing.  Everything always works out in the end.

Was turkey hunting in central Texas and was bitten numberous times over the course of the weekend.  Still unsure if it was done in the field or in the motel room at night.

The bites look exactly like the ones described in the original note on this thread.  Center blisters with big red welts under them (half to silver dollar size).  They break and scab and become very dark and then start to decrease in size after about 10 days.  My doctor gave me a cortisione steroid to take orally for 6 days and an anti-biotic to stop any possible infection.  My friends and I are all outdoorsman but have not seen this type of bite before.  Everything points towards spider but typically spider bites are defensive and they will bite once and leave.  I was bitten 11 times in 3 days.  As far as a recluse is concerned, the odds are slim as they are definetly a "one and run" type of spider and with as many times as I was bitten, I would've been very sick.  If you have many of these bites and are not very ill, chances are it was not a brown recluse.

Sorry you don't seem to be able to deal with the reality of MT world as it is in 2005.  You are the one with false illusions that somehow there is a code of ethics in any company or these MTs would unite to fight ??? uhh what's the fight and where is it at.  Might as well try to get a herd of cats together to fight an undefined battle for you once you figure out who your enemy is.

Attitude has nothing whatsoever to do with "success" these days.  I personally know too many MTs,  working for different companies, with very legitimate complaints and they aren't the cry baby types.  I am a good MT also but what difference does that make if there's no work? I always asked the same question, "Do your MTs run out of work?"   I do not have time to sit around all day waiting to see if there might be some work to do...either I work or I don't.  Every recruiter assured me that there was plenty of work.  They lied.  I have worked now for 2 years for the same company and this time the recruiter told me there was plenty of work and obviously there is or I wouldn't still be there.  If and when I start running out of work with them, I am out of MT period.  So, I guess, I have to revise my first statement a little.  If anyone finds the right company for them, then attitude probably does have everything to do with success.  As for myself, I rarely hear anything from the company I work for other than regularly getting my pay stub that my pay has been direct deposited on time and for the correct amount.  I think some MTs put too much emphasis on line rates.  1500 lines per day at 8.5 cpl comes out to a whole lot more than  200 lines at 15 cpl.  As for my line rate, it isn't terribly impressive but I make as much as I want to make and don't have to kill myself doing it so these days that's about all one can expect IMO.

Has anyone done this?  It looks good....but I need to know before I spend the money. 

Thanks.

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone had any good/bad info on this company. I can't seem to find much information on them. Thanks.

Jen

What was your expeience?  Is it very expensive?  I was thinking about renting a laptop computer to use for work on vacation for a couple of weeks and not ready to invest in purchasing a new laptop yet.  Can you rent things for about a month or do they require longer?

Thanks for any help you guys might give.');>

disciplined, IMO. It's a toy and should stay home and not come to school.

At my grandson's daycare they get kicked out for making guns out of Legos! No guns in school anywhere, any time, any shape, form or fashion.

Lord, we made bazookas out of big sticks, rifles out of smaller ones, and handguns out of little bent ones. Then we proceeded to kill each other all over the place - the difference is that we didn't do it when we grew up.

can wash in the tub or shower.   I've washed mine 3 times in the shower.  I don't use anything, just hot water and run over it a few times, let it sit for a bit and then run water again to get anything really sticky off.  I then shake it upside down really good and then place it upside down on a towel near a vent to dry.  It takes me 3 days to get it dried out good.  I've used it in 2 days and kept getting errors, so let it dry a third day and no problems. 

You can take a warm damp cloth and wipe over the keyboard. I would suggest unplugging it from the computer so you don't reprogram something.  I also take an index card and run it down between the keys.  You'd be surprised how much dust/animal hair you get out.  I also turn my keyboard over and thumb it a couple of times on my tray and that gets out a lot of crumbs.