I will call him...PUSTULIO!

So, my chigger bites got worse. Friday morning I got bit. I think I took the first pic Friday night, and posted on Saturday. Monday night after spending the afternoon and evening with my French neighbors, site buddy, and a French backpacker I accosted on the street during my lunch break, I went home around 1 am, took off my sock and found this beauty smiling up at me:


Profile view of my new sidekick. I was tempted to draw a little face on him with a felt tipped marker, but since I knew I was gonna lance him (in the FACE) soon after, I didn't want to risk getting an infection from the pen.

There he is, gents. Probably about as big as a pencil eraser in all dimensions. That's not a drop of water, thats a solid, semi-soft membrane of skin over the largest blister/sore/thing I've ever had sticking outta my body.

I lanced the two big ones, my Deimos and Phobos, and doused 'em with alchohol. Then I put antibacterial salve on each bite and put a bandaid over the ones I lanced.

Now, most of the bites are healing nicely. They don't itch bad at all. Not sure why only those two got so huge...I figure my socks irritated them or something. Placement on my foot meant they got more irritated by the socks or shoes than the others.