A Ranking of Mosquito Bites
torso < limbs < joints < eyelid
If you were required to get a mosquito bite I would highly recommend somewhere on your torso; perhaps a nice bite on the pecs or stomach area. These areas have easy scratch-ability and also the skin seems a little thicker so as to make the bites less irritable. Compare this to the eyelid mosquito bite, the worst of them all. Due to the location of the bite it is nearly impossible to satisfactorily scratch the bite or even rub the bite because you might accidentally irritate your eye and then you'll have two troubles on your hands (or rather two troubles on your eye).
You must be wondering "Why the post on mosquito bites? Where are the posts on movies and games and the like?" Believe me I would much rather be writing a post about movies I recently watched like Guardians of the Galaxy or Snowpiercer or even the not so great Lucy. Unfortunately, dire circumstances have brought me to this post instead. I do indeed have a mosquito bite on my eyelid but not just anywhere on the eyelid. It is right at that edge of the eyelid where the bite is kinda hiding between some eyelashes so it's even more of an awkward location.
I can't scratch it because when I first did I lost several eyelashes so I stopped that. I shouldn't rub the eyes either; I already have an astigmatism. There really aren't that many options here other than to sit in misery while one of my eyelids has swollen to twice its original size and vigorously blinking in order to safely rub the bite site.
It must be the curse of the brown man. After several trips to India my skin has thickened. Now normal American weakling mosquitoes can't effectively target large surface areas on my body like the torso or the limbs. They have to attack where the skin is weaker: the joints and now the eyelid. I don't know is it worth the tradeoff? A reduced overall number of mosquito bites but when they do happen they are in the worst and most annoying spots?
torso < limbs < joints < eyelid
If you were required to get a mosquito bite I would highly recommend somewhere on your torso; perhaps a nice bite on the pecs or stomach area. These areas have easy scratch-ability and also the skin seems a little thicker so as to make the bites less irritable. Compare this to the eyelid mosquito bite, the worst of them all. Due to the location of the bite it is nearly impossible to satisfactorily scratch the bite or even rub the bite because you might accidentally irritate your eye and then you'll have two troubles on your hands (or rather two troubles on your eye).
You must be wondering "Why the post on mosquito bites? Where are the posts on movies and games and the like?" Believe me I would much rather be writing a post about movies I recently watched like Guardians of the Galaxy or Snowpiercer or even the not so great Lucy. Unfortunately, dire circumstances have brought me to this post instead. I do indeed have a mosquito bite on my eyelid but not just anywhere on the eyelid. It is right at that edge of the eyelid where the bite is kinda hiding between some eyelashes so it's even more of an awkward location.
I can't scratch it because when I first did I lost several eyelashes so I stopped that. I shouldn't rub the eyes either; I already have an astigmatism. There really aren't that many options here other than to sit in misery while one of my eyelids has swollen to twice its original size and vigorously blinking in order to safely rub the bite site.
It must be the curse of the brown man. After several trips to India my skin has thickened. Now normal American weakling mosquitoes can't effectively target large surface areas on my body like the torso or the limbs. They have to attack where the skin is weaker: the joints and now the eyelid. I don't know is it worth the tradeoff? A reduced overall number of mosquito bites but when they do happen they are in the worst and most annoying spots?
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