Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
It would appear that I have been stung on the ankle though Peter's inspection has it labelled as a snake bite. Certainly the location just above the shoe line suggests it could be an adder as I was wearing boots when I was working on the bees, and if a bee had stung me I would probably have noticed it right away. But snakes are very quick and the reaction is a bit slower to develop - I was wearing Dockers when I was weeding under the fruit bushes and I can just imagine a snake would curl up and doze on the warm, black weed barrier as we always find lots of lizards hiding underneath.
So I am self-medicating: anti-histamine, hydrocortisone and Burana and as long as I keep moving it seems OK (swollen but OK). But as soon as I sit still for more than a few minutes it becomes very painful and I can no longer put any pressure on it. Colour-wise it's reddish but not turning black, green, blue or violet which would suggest something nasty is going on under the surface.
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