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Tennessee Gardening
conniemcghee

Something tried to eat me alive...

17 years ago

...the other night when I was watering and planting a couple of things. I was out there for no more than 30, maybe 45 minutes. I didn't notice anything when I came back inside, but in the middle of the night I woke myself up I was itching so badly.

That was three days ago, and I am still waking myself up itching in the middle of the night. Bites all over my midsection, creases of legs, etc. Could it be chiggers???

I got chiggers when I was a kid and we would pick blackberries in the woods behind our house. But this was in my front garden bed, for crying out loud. What in the world?

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