After enjoying a fairly solid last three days of surf here in Oceanside. I came home from the beach yesterday and by late afternoon my right foot was on fire. So, I look at the bottom of it and see a huge red spot with a small white dot just off center. I figure I stepped in some glass or got a something stuck in my foot. Nope, nothing there. But I got a huge re-action to digging at it and putting on alcohol. Today my foot looks like a stuffed sausage. Puffy and burning. Thankfully no radiating lines from the main area of pain.

Now I think I have either stepped on a dead Jelly fish. But no barbs.
It could be a bee stinger since it seems that all the bees in Southern California are in my backyard right now. They aren't afraid of my cell phone no matter how many calls I make.

Oh well, soaking it in Epsom Salts and aspirin seem to keep it at bay for now.
Just thought I would rant since the surf is looking good again today and the water has warmed up a bit.

_RT

ditto. don't screw around with infections. You need to kill it completely with anti-biotics.

Danny Snyder

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Yep. It was a bee stinger.
Which is a pretty sucky thing for me. A few years back I was racing bicycles and got stung 6 times in one year while on training rides.

Did you know that the more you get stung by bees, the stings actually become more fatal over time as your bodies will re-act more violently instead growing a immunity.

Also there is a hormone that gets triggered when stung that sends out a scent that actually attracts more bees.

Just some fun facts while I am on downtime.

_Redd

Yo Redd, I had a similar experience with a sea urchin. I was scuba diving near Panama City FL in 1968 and accidently kicked a sea urchin with the outside of my right heel. Of course the spine broke off in my heel which is an impossible place to get to yourself. I went through the same crap and after a while the swelling went down and it finally ceased to bother me. Almost thirty years later, and without any warning, it flared up again. I started scratching away on the spot and after several days, plop, out it came, a piece of sea urchin spine about 1/8" dia and bout 1/4" long. The spot healed right up just like nothing ever happened......ed

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our water has warmed up so no more wetsuits. i love summer. we've got a decent size swell here today but the waves are a bit on the weird side.

The tides has been making things a bit wonkey here. Plus the wind comes up quick. Hopefully this will be a foreshadow to a great summer to come. Last two summers have been depressing surf wise.

_RT

redd----hey dude--down on the gulf coast, we got a little sweetheart called the fireant. not the little native ones but the horror imported from hell back in the last century. one morningafter some great skimboarding, we were shaking our towels out and mr cool here walked over to the landscaping at the motel cuz i thought it could use a little more sand. ten seconds of towel shaking and my legs were on fire!! i looked down and saw i was standing on top of a fireant mound and the little fuckers came out in force. i started screaming and slapping at my legs with the towel and then dancing all over the parking lot! my kids were laughing lkie hell, my wife was "what are you doing this time?" and i'm in pain!!! oh shit! after a minute or two i had knocked em off of me and then the stings started turning red. pain dude. pain. slept all afternoon and nite and thenwent back to the beach the next morning. turned out to be about 300 stings by my wife's count. am very careful where i shake my towel out these days!! peace

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Oh yeah, I had one of those fire ant experiences about 15 years ago in Raymond, Mississippi. I was down there on business but was staying through the weekend at an employee's home to meet my girl friend at the time. My plan was to propose to her that weekend. My employee/friend and I were outside working on his truck and of course, like an idiot, I was standing there barefooted. I started feeling the stinging and looked down to see both my feet covered with fire ants. We got the brushed off, got inside and immediately started having an allergic reaction to the stings. Thankfully, my friend had the necessary medication to reverse my reaction but it left my feet badly swollen and sore.

My girlfriend arrived later that day and that night, I crammed my swollen feet into dress shoes and took her out with my friends to an absolutely fabulous restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River in Vicksburg. Later that evening, I got down on my knees and asked her to marry me. God bless her for saying yes cause she was and is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Of course somewhere down that "best" list is getting my first Fender Showman!!!

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Once when I was a kid I was walking around in the woods behind our house and stepped right on a wasp nest. (Who ever heard of a wasps building a nest on the ground?) Needless to say, it was not a happy experience. For me or the wasps.

That's gnarly. Both Stories.

Today, I cut the top of my foot with fins on my surfboard when I tried to get into a wave way too late. I think my right foot has something against me.

On a brighter note. About 4 dolphins hung out in the line up with us today for a good 1/2 hour. ALmost close enough to touch. It is never a bad day if you can get into the water.

RT