skin protests

I’ve managed to develop a pretty nasty rash on my hips. It looks like a conglomerate of mosquito bites, but why would a bunch of mosquitoes bite me on the hips, and nowhere else? And how would they even get there? Most of the time I’m wearing pants, and when I’m not, I’m inside a mosquito net. Bed bugs leave similar bite marks, but they wouldn’t concentrate on the hips like this either. And Elli has no bites. I just can’t believe that my hip blood would be so much more delicious than the rest of me and the whole of Elli.

No, it’s a rash. Itchy and red. Right in the spot where my bag hangs while we’re walking through the villages. Tablet, GPS, camera and water bottle. Those are rubbing my sweaty, dirty pants into my hips, giving me the nastiest rash I’ve ever had.

Oh, the life of a field working masters student.

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2 thoughts on “skin protests

  1. During my fieldwork I had more than a hundred flea bites at a single moment.. they love living in the folds and seams of clothes! Only way to get rid of them was to iron or wash hot, or pick them out one by one.. My friend hardly got a bite.. So it might be a genetic sweetness.?.. I hope it’s not what you have…

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