How the hell????

For this next frustrating event to make any sense, I need to put a little back-history up.

We moved to Arizona the first time in March of 1999 and lived in an apartment in "East Mesa" (Greenfield and Southern) until we built our house in Queen Creek and moved in, December 2001. We lived in our house until late August/early September 2005, when we sold it, then moved to an apartment in Tempe (Priest and Southern).

In all that time, we saw our fair share of scorpions, snakes and even black widows. shudder When we owned the house, we did pest control, especially during those hot summer months when all things creepy and crawly liked to come out to feast. Randy has even "sparred" with a scorpion---these suckers are vicious, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! But in all that time, NONE of us has been stung by a scorpion.

Fast forward to our return to Arizona... and I'm sure you can already see where this is going. We arrived in Scottsdale very early on the 13th of February. We moved in to the house on the 15th and have been sleeping here for 5 nights.

At 5am, I was woken by fire on my leg and realized something wasn't right. I turned a light on and there's a fucking (pardon my unladylike language) scorpion on my bed! Randy's pretty sure it was a Bark scorpion. All I know is PAIN! It felt (and still feels!) like a colony of fire ants have taken up residence along my leg and are chomping merrily away.

Poison Control basically told me what to watch for (signs of anaphylactic shock, which I haven't shown yet, so I'm guessing that's ruled out), and possible problems with the Bark scorpion's venom as it's one of the more toxic ones in North America. Lucky me!

Wikipedia told me I might find some relief with an ointment of antihistimine/analgesic/corticosteroid. So, Randy's definitely going to be my hero here in a little while and locate something for that!

Meanwhile, I did some looking around online (ain't the IntarWebs amazin'? *grin*) and discovered our house was sold at auction last fall. For $60k less than we sold it! I feel bad for the owners (the people we sold it to). It isn't the next chapter in the house that I'd hoped for.

*sigh* I'm glad to be back in Arizona... I'm just wondering if Arizona's glad to have me!