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I keep getting these little tiny red bumps at night. They are in random places, usually wherever there is exposed skin. Sometimes a leg, usually my belly if I don’t tuck my shirt into my pants before sleeping. If I wear loose shorts to bed, they will appear under my clothing. One night, I wore socks, and tucked my pants into my socks, and my shirt into my pants so nothing was exposed except my hands–I now have 2 bites on my neck. They start out tiny, with no visible bite mark, and then grow to about the size of a quarter with the edges very slightly raised. This happens over over a few weeks time, until they eventually disappear. They get extremely dry and flaky and itch constantly the bigger they get.

I seem to only get them at night, and the problem has been getting worse over the course of a few months. I now have about 15 bites that have just started out, and will grow over the next month. My husband and daughter do not get them, I have bug bombed the room I sleep in and washed all bedclothing in the house. I sleep in my own bed, and it seems the couple times my daughter has slept with me, she too gets bitten, but her bites go away without growing larger.

Does anyone know what is going on and how I can get rid of them? It used to happen infrequently, but now I have over 20 bites on my body! HELP!

I sat at the chair with a small mug of coffee at my hands. I was not expecting anyone to call at such a late time, but all of a sudden, interrupting the hum of TV, the phone rang. I got to my feet and replied. A shrill voice replied. “Hello, can I speak to Mr. McCain.”

“I’m Mr. McCain, how can I help you?”

“Your mother is dying,” she said, sighing. “She wants to see you.”

After giving me the address, I hurried to my room and got dressed. I was unlocking the door and getting ready to leave when my reflection in the golden mirror at the wall caught my attention. I peered at my pale, long face. I have not shaved for two weeks and the hair was growing taller among the zits at my cheeks.

I knew Mom was ill with cancer, but I have not seen her for five months and she would be angry with me before she dies. I thought of returning, but I could not. Before he died three years ago, Dad told me to be beside Mom when she is leaving; I was just fulfilling his wish.

I took my car to the hospital. It took me sometime before I reached Mom’s room. She was lying on a white, iron bed with glucose bags hanging from the ceiling beside her. Her hairless head was wrapped in a white towel and the veins at her slender hands were getting thicker.

“Mom,” I said, approaching her bed. “Can you hear me?”

“Jim,” she coughed and raised her head to the ceiling. I ran at her and after offering her a cup of water, she smiled and said, “I’m just fine, they told you I was dying.”

I lowered my eyes and wrapped her hand between my long fingers. “I came because I haven’t seen you for a long time; I really missed you.” I kissed her hand and patted it as I placed it back on the white sheet.

“I want to tell you something,” she said, “I love you Jim.”

“I love you to Mom,”

I looked towards the window for a moment. Did I truly love her? I could not find an answer or may be I was afraid to find one. Throughout my life, Mom had been nothing but a blurry figure of a workaholic woman with beautiful green eyes, nothing less, nothing more.

“ Mom,” I said, “ I’m sorry if I hurt you one day.”

“ me to darling,” she ran her warm hand over my cheek. “ I was never there for you; I guess that I’ll spend sometime in hell for that.”

“It’s ok. I’m beside you, now.”

She closed her eyes, breathed in and her chest collapsed. She was dead.

I told no one. I walked out of her room with my hand placed at my cheek where she placed her hand some minutes ago. I loved her and I never knew it. She was gone and I realized how important she had been for me.

We usually spend our lives forgetting the ones that really matter and after they die, we begin to wish for things that never happened. We begin to wish that we have spent much time with them; we wish that we hugged them; and we wish that we‘d told them how much we loved them.

So I randomly dislocated my knee about 30 hours ago by banging my kneecap on the side of my bed frame. Yes I know I sound like a wuss. Anyways, I hear that a lot of people that already dislocated their knee once are very prone to having it happen again. Is this just during the recovery time and like a year after it happened it should be fine?

Also, I have this fairly large bruise from where my knee cap was sticking out when it was dislocated. The bruise is fine but there’s this blister or cyst or something that is MASSIVE and growing from the bruise. It raises at least an inch off my skin and it’s like 2-3 inches in width/length. It’s pretty soft and feels/looks like it could pop into a huge mess at any second. I don’t really know what it is but I’m pretty sure either it keeps growing over time or the heat from bandages I’ve wrapped around it make it bigger. Basically what is it, should I try and pop it, will it stop growing and eventually pop by itself or get smaller?

Hi. I wrote this at age 12, and was just wondering if it was good or not.

Liz suppressed a groan as she slammed yet another book shut, tossing it into the slowly growing pile of books by her bed. She had got up early to get to the library today, and had signed out every book that had anything to do with the Elixir. Unfortunately, she had practically drained the library of all knowledge related to the legendary object. Nothing new could be learned, unless she was to sneak into the State-Only section.
Suddenly, the door to her dorm swung open with a creak. Liz’s head snapped up, and her heart started racing. But when two familiar-looking teenage boys entered the room, it immediately calmed, and she sighed with relief.
"What do you want?" She groaned.
Ringo rolled his eyes. "Do you even know what day it is?"
"Yes." She was growing a bit impatient. They disturbed her studying for that? "February the 14th."
"Yeah," Drew chimed in. "Valentine’s Day."
"Valentines Day?" Liz gasped. In this world, they had no Christmas, Hanukkah, or Easter. No festivities from Earth. She had no idea they still had Valentines Day… "So?" She crossed her arms. "It’s not like I have a Valentine."
Drew raised his eyebrows and grinned at Ringo, who glared at him as if to say ‘Why me?’. The younger Earle brother pushed Ringo forward, and mouthed ‘Go’.
"What is it?" Liz watched the scene unfold, one eyebrow raised.
Ringo took a deep breath of air, unclenched his fists and reached into his pocket. He fished around for a second, trying to buy some time, and came back up again with something in his hand, which he handed to Liz.
It was a rose. A single flower, with pale pink petals that swirled together like ice cream. They were delicately folded and layered, in a unique design that she had not seen on a rose before. She held it up to her nose and took a sniff. It smelled like candy.
Ringo started stammering. "Y-You know, you’re all lonely here and stuff, and, uh, me and Drew used to give our mother flowers all the time, and so, um, Drew just suggest I, y-you know, get you something. ‘C-Cause it’s Valentines Day, and most girls have SOMETHING, if anything, and it’s not, like, a romantic thing, it’s just as friends, so don’t get the wrong idea or-"
"Ringo?" She gazed up at him, not sure whether to laugh, cry, or hug him.
"Er, yeah? If you don’t like the color, we can change it. I thought red would be too bloody-looking, so…"
"Thank you." She smiled.
"Wh-What?" Ringo paused from his speech, looking shocked.
"I said, thank you."
Slowly, a wide, idiotic grin spread over Ringo’s lips. He puffed his chest up a bit, as if proud of himself. "N-No problem!"
Liz made a mental reminder to buy a vase for the flower. She had never felt so happy. Her very first Valentine, from one of her most best friends. She inhaled its sweet scent one more time before laying it carefully on her nighttable, and turning back to her books.

So, any critiques? Suggestions, advice? I want to improve so bad! >.< I’m only 13 now (my birthday is today. ), do don’t start flaming me!
Thanks!

I sat at the chair with a small mug of coffee at my hands. I was not expecting anyone to call at such a late time, but all of a sudden, interrupting the hum of TV, the phone rang. I got to my feet and replied. A shrill voice replied. “Hello, can I speak to Mr. McCain.”

“I’m Mr. McCain, how can I help you?”

“Your mother is dying,” she said, sighing. “She wants to see you.”

After giving me the address, I hurried to my room and got dressed. I was unlocking the door and getting ready to leave when my reflection in the golden mirror at the wall caught my attention. I peered at my pale, long face. I have not shaved for two weeks and the hair was growing taller among the zits at my cheeks.

I knew Mom was ill with cancer, but I have not seen her for five months and she would be angry with me before she dies. I thought of returning, but I could not. Before he died three years ago, Dad told me to be beside Mom when she is leaving; I was just fulfilling his wish.

I took my car to the hospital. It took me sometime before I reached Mom’s room. She was lying on a white, iron bed with glucose bags hanging from the ceiling beside her. Her hairless head was wrapped in a white towel and the veins at her slender hands were getting thicker.

“Mom,” I said, approaching her bed. “Can you hear me?”

“Jim,” she coughed and raised her head to the ceiling. I ran at her and after offering her a cup of water, she smiled and said, “I’m just fine, they told you I was dying.”

I lowered my eyes and wrapped her hand between my long fingers. “I came because I haven’t seen you for a long time; I really missed you.” I kissed her hand and patted it as I placed it back on the white sheet.

“I want to tell you something,” she said, “I love you Jim.”

“I love you to Mom,”

I looked towards the window for a moment. Did I truly love her? I could not find an answer or may be I was afraid to find one. Throughout my life, Mom had been nothing but a blurry figure of a workaholic woman with beautiful green eyes, nothing less, nothing more.

“ Mom,” I said, “ I’m sorry if I hurt you one day.”

“ me to darling,” she ran her warm hand over my cheek. “ I was never there for you; I guess that I’ll spend sometime in hell for that.”

“It’s ok. I’m beside you, now.”

She closed her eyes, breathed in and her chest collapsed. She was dead.

I told no one. I walked out of her room with my hand placed at my cheek where she placed her hand some minutes ago. I loved her and I never knew it. She was gone and I realized how important she had been for me.

We usually spend our lives forgetting the ones that really matter and after they die, we begin to wish for things that never happened. We begin to wish that we have spent much time with them; we wish that we hugged them; and we wish that we‘d told them how much we loved them.

I live in central FL, my first season to grow vegetables and they are being grown in a raised bed. The plants are tall and healthy. Watered regularly. The eggplant also have green streaks in the skin instead of solid purple and fruit is hard. Nothing seems to be maturing properly.
I have been a veg. gardener for years…in upstate NY…not HOT FL.
Thanks for your advice!!!

I sat at the chair with a small mug of coffee at my hands. I was not expecting anyone to call at such a late time, but all of a sudden, interrupting the hum of TV, the phone rang. I got to my feet and replied. A shrill voice replied. “Hello, can I speak to Mr. McCain.”

“I’m Mr. McCain, how can I help you?”

“Your mother is dying,” she said, sighing. “She wants to see you.”

After giving me the address, I hurried to my room and got dressed. I was unlocking the door and getting ready to leave when my reflection in the golden mirror at the wall caught my attention. I peered at my pale, long face. I have not shaved for two weeks and the hair was growing taller among the zits at my cheeks.

I knew Mom was ill with cancer, but I have not seen her for five months and she would be angry with me before she dies. I thought of returning, but I could not. Before he died three years ago, Dad told me to be beside Mom when she is leaving; I was just fulfilling his wish.

I took my car to the hospital. It took me sometime before I reached Mom’s room. She was lying on a white, iron bed with glucose bags hanging from the ceiling beside her. Her hairless head was wrapped in a white towel and the veins at her slender hands were getting thicker.

“Mom,” I said, approaching her bed. “Can you hear me?”

“Jim,” she coughed and raised her head to the ceiling. I ran at her and after offering her a cup of water, she smiled and said, “I’m just fine, they told you I was dying.”

I lowered my eyes and wrapped her hand between my long fingers. “I came because I haven’t seen you for a long time; I really missed you.” I kissed her hand and patted it as I placed it back on the white sheet.

“I want to tell you something,” she said, “I love you Jim.”

“I love you to Mom,”

I looked towards the window for a moment. Did I truly love her? I could not find an answer or may be I was afraid to find one. Throughout my life, Mom had been nothing but a blurry figure of a workaholic woman with beautiful green eyes, nothing less, nothing more.

“ Mom,” I said, “ I’m sorry if I hurt you one day.”

“ me to darling,” she ran her warm hand over my cheek. “ I was never there for you; I guess that I’ll spend sometime in hell for that.”

“It’s ok. I’m beside you, now.”

She closed her eyes, breathed in and her chest collapsed. She was dead.

I told no one. I walked out of her room with my hand placed at my cheek where she placed her hand some minutes ago. I loved her and I never knew it. She was gone and I realized how important she had been for me.

We usually spend our lives forgetting the ones that really matter and after they die, we begin to wish for things that never happened. We begin to wish that we have spent much time with them; we wish that we hugged them; and we wish that we‘d told them how much we loved them.

I live with ten people, and six of them are kids with behavior/mental disorders. I have to clean up after them all constantly, break up fights, cook for them, help them with homework, put them to bed, buy groceries and school supplies, etc. The house is falling apart; literally- there’s mold and mushrooms growing all over the place, holes in the walls, rats and roaches.
I’m 22 and I’m starting my sophomore year of college tomorrow. I’m going to be taking a hard math course and a very tough research course too.
Right now my best friend is really mad at me, because she thinks I haven’t been ‘giving her enough attention’ and I’ve been ‘putting other stuff before her.’ She is ignoring me and making my anxiety a lot worse. I don’t think she understands my situation at all.

On top of this, we’re having major financial trouble and dealing with a relative who is terminally ill.

Also, we have a mix/clash of cultures in the home(mom vs dad) my younger siblings are like a completely separate culture from me. I feel like we’re not even related sometimes. There’s always fighting and arguing about how to raise the kids.
The boys are very badly behaved.
I have extreme social phobia and it affects every aspect of my life. I still have nightmares all the time from being stuck in a 3rd world country for almost four years of my life, and the abuse/trauma we’ve gone through and witnessed over there is still affecting everyone.

This is just too much for me to handle. What would you do?! What should I do about my best friend? I tried explaining this to her already! She has problems too, so she expects me to be there for her, but hers are nothing like mine. :/ She’s mad because she just got out of a psychiatric hospital and believes I’m not giving her the care and sensitivity she needs.

I want to be able to breathe normally

I want my heart to beat NORMALLY

I live with ten people, and six of them are kids with behavior/mental disorders. I have to clean up after them all constantly, break up fights, cook for them, help them with homework, put them to bed, etc. The house is falling apart; literally- there’s mold and mushrooms growing all over the place, holes in the walls, rats and roaches.
I’m 22 and I’m starting my sophomore year of college tomorrow. I’m going to be taking a hard math course and a very tough research course too.
Right now my best friend is really mad at me, because she thinks I haven’t been ‘giving her enough attention’ and I’ve been ‘putting other stuff before her.’ She is ignoring me and making my anxiety a lot worse. I don’t think she understands my situation at all.

On top of this, we’re having major financial trouble and dealing with a relative who is terminally ill.

Also, we have a mix/clash of cultures in the home(mom vs dad) my younger siblings are like a completely separate culture from me. I feel like we’re not even related sometimes. There’s always fighting and arguing about how to raise the kids.
The boys are very badly behaved.
I have extreme social phobia and it affects every aspect of my life. I still have nightmares all the time from being stuck in a 3rd world country for almost four years of my life, and the abuse/trauma we’ve gone through and witnessed over there is still affecting everyone.

This is just too much for me to handle. What would you do?! What should I do about my best friend? I tried explaining this to her already! She has problems too, so she expects me to be there for her, but hers are nothing like mine. :/

I want to be able to breathe normally

I want my heart to beat NORMALLY

I sat at the chair with a small mug of coffee at my hands. I was not expecting anyone to call at such a late time, but all of a sudden, interrupting the hum of TV, the phone rang. I got to my feet and replied. A shrill voice replied. “Hello, can I speak to Mr. McCain.”

“I’m Mr. McCain, how can I help you?”

“Your mother is dying,” she said, sighing. “She wants to see you.”

After giving me the address, I hurried to my room and got dressed. I was unlocking the door and getting ready to leave when my reflection in the golden mirror at the wall caught my attention. I peered at my pale, long face. I have not shaved for two weeks and the hair was growing taller among the zits at my cheeks.

I knew Mom was ill with cancer, but I have not seen her for five months and she would be angry with me before she dies. I thought of returning, but I could not. Before he died three years ago, Dad told me to be beside Mom when she is leaving; I was just fulfilling his wish.

I took my car to the hospital. It took me sometime before I reached Mom’s room. She was lying on a white, iron bed with glucose bags hanging from the ceiling beside her. Her hairless head was wrapped in a white towel and the veins at her slender hands were getting thicker.

“Mom,” I said, approaching her bed. “Can you hear me?”

“Jim,” she coughed and raised her head to the ceiling. I ran at her and after offering her a cup of water, she smiled and said, “I’m just fine, they told you I was dying.”

I lowered my eyes and wrapped her hand between my long fingers. “I came because I haven’t seen you for a long time; I really missed you.” I kissed her hand and patted it as I placed it back on the white sheet.

“I want to tell you something,” she said, “I love you Jim.”

“I love you to Mom,”

I looked towards the window for a moment. Did I truly love her? I could not find an answer or may be I was afraid to find one. Throughout my life, Mom had been nothing but a blurry figure of a workaholic woman with beautiful green eyes, nothing less, nothing more.

“ Mom,” I said, “ I’m sorry if I hurt you one day.”

“ me to darling,” she ran her warm hand over my cheek. “ I was never there for you; I guess that I’ll spend sometime in hell for that.”

“It’s ok. I’m beside you, now.”

She closed her eyes, breathed in and her chest collapsed. She was dead.

I told no one. I walked out of her room with my hand placed at my cheek where she placed her hand some minutes ago. I loved her and I never knew it. She was gone and I realized how important she had been for me.

We usually spend our lives forgetting the ones that really matter and after they die, we begin to wish for things that never happened. We begin to wish that we have spent much time with them; we wish that we hugged them; and we wish that we‘d told them how much we loved them.