I think I’ve already established that I’m really quite delicious to mosquitoes. I don’t know, maybe I’ve got some sort of chemical thing going on that just makes me irresistible. Well, whatever the case, it tends to make living through the warmer months a hell of a lot tougher than I want it to be. I’d forgotten about that fact up until late yesterday. Earlier that day I was doing my run through some wooded areas. I thought I was relatively unscathed from that run because I remember swatting a large amount of mosquitoes from my arms. I thought I was quite in tune with my body, you know? When I got home I didn’t notice a thing. It wasn’t until later that evening when the welts started manifesting themselves all over. I now have made bites up and down my arms, on my shoulders, on my back and on my legs.

I am one itchy son of a gun right now.

Today at work I resorted to popping some Benadryl. My mistake was not getting the non-drowsy formulation. So, for a good part of the afternoon, and all through this phone conference that I had to be a part of I was quite zonked out. I’d be embarrassed, but…meh. I apologized ahead of time and give the reason for my resulting mumble mouth and disjointed thoughts. They were cool with it all.

I spent a few good minutes searching for some home remedies and didn’t really come up with anything except the usual. I thought that was it until a friend brought up the idea of fighting against the nasty blood suckers with some biological warfare. She suggested that I raise my intake of garlic. Well, I kind of thought of that as a little bit of a “duh” moment, but at the same time I wondered just why I had never thought of doing that before. She suggested that I put myself on an odourless garlic capsule. Even though it’s odourless, it’s supposed to pack enough punch to be able to make mosquitoes search for a tastier meal. Apparently it takes a week for it to really take hold. Eh well, I wanted to give it a good go so I picked up a good garlic supplement and have started taking it with every meal. I’m really interested to see if it makes a difference. By the time these current bites heal I should be back into the trails taking in the scenery, and hopefully I will be untouched. As it is, it’s taking me a heck of a lot of effort just to not scratch my current bumps. Hopefully I’ll behave and not make things worse.