As usually, the most annoying part is not understanding... although perhaps not, as sleeping poorly, nightmares, and itching are all up there.

Something bit me a few nights ago. I was wearing my pajama pants, and in the middle of the night I first felt one painful bite on my right inner thigh, and then a second one a couple of inches away before I could get the pants off. I'd been thinking that it had only been a night or two, which is what I'd told my house mates at dinner, when Anna told me that I should go to the doctor if it had been more than a week, but I just realized that it very well has been close to a week, because I'd been sleeping in Patri's bed on the night it happened, after it happened he was here for five nights, where I was sleeping in my own bed.

The last couple of nights I've had really bad nightmares waking me up out of a sound sleep after only an hour or two of being in bed, even though I've been taking sleep drugs, which usually allow me to sleep through anything. I think its related to the itching, although I'm not sure.

I'm usually good about not scratching bug bites and think I probably have been with these as well. However, after looking like they were getting better for a day or so, both actual spots have swollen hard, and much of the area surrounding has as well. Two little bites have turned into a bright swollen hard bumpy mass covering about the same area as my palm.

I applied more topical anesthetic, and took some ibuprofen for anti-inflamitory purposes, and might take an antihistamine if its still a problem later and someone who knows more thinks that it would be appropriate. I really hope it doesn't come down to having to see a doctor, and doubt it will, although if it gets much worse I'm there.