A small bad luck streak

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I don't know what it is, but I keep having all the unusual bad things happen to me. Sunday I got stung by a bee. Sure bee stings aren't all that rare, but I've never been stung before in my life. I would have just chalked it up to a new experience, but the wound became infected. By Tuesday morning, my entire forearm (I was stung just below my wrist) and turned red, was hot to the touch, and slightly swollen, not to mention it still hurt a lot.

So bright and early I went into the doctors office. I got there at 7:30 which is when they opened, hoping I could get the first available walk-in appointment. It took until 10:00 for them to realize that the doctor they scheduled me with had a vacation day. They hadn't taken her out of the system though, so they kept scheduling appointments for her. So instead of the 8:30 appointment I was supposed to have, I didn' see a doctor until 10:30. It was no big deal though, they gave me anti-biotics, and it's no longer hot or swollen, although the skin is still a little red.

Then today I was driving to a job interview and I rear-ended a guy on the highway. By the time I hit the guy, I was probably only going 10mph, but the reason I didn't know he was stopped was because his break lights were out so when I first saw him I assumed he was just moving slowly and all the other lanes were moving, so it wasn't like the whole highway was bumper to bumper. I'm just annoyed I didn't think to pull the emergency brake, I would have stopped in time if I had, because I was so close to not hitting him. There was almost no damage, and no one was hurt, so my insurance company said that it might just be a reporting only kind of thing. The annoying thing was the guy denied his breaklights were out. When we stopped to exchange information he even had me sit in his car, start it up and hit the breaks and he couldn't tell if they worked or not, but he still said "They must work, I just took the car in."

Sigh, please don't let my insurance go up.

Oh, well, tomorrow I got to Long Beach for JM&Friends, so maybe it's just a little preemptive bad karma to make up for the wonderful time I'm going to have :)

Comments

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

I sure hope you got rid of all the bad karma and have a great time at JM & Friends. Please post and tell us all about it!

Travel safe.

PS - Bee stings can be dangerous. Next time take an over the counter benedryl and it will keep the reaction down.

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

Make sure you tell your insurance company about his brake lights not working. I'd imagine he would be partly at fault as well.

Enjoy the JMapalooza and take pictures, please!!

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Thanks for the bee sting advice. I actual was at Universal Studios (the theme park, not the actual studio) when it happened so I went to the first aid station and the nurse gave me something similar to benedryl. This reaction had nothing to do with the stuff the bee makes, as with the bee being dirty. Or maybe it was because I was constantly dipping my arm into a cooler of cold water that was full of soda and beer. Luckily it turns out I'm not allergic to bee stings, the nurse actually told me I was panicking, I guess cause I wasn't sure.

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Yeah, I told the insurance company. I'm not sure how much difference it will make, but honestly I would have slowed down a lot faster if I'd known he was stopped. I admit, I did rear-end someone once before, and that was totally my fault, and I told the insurance company that. This time I don't really feel that responsible.

I'll try and remember to take lots of pictures. I'm not really a picture person, but I now have a camera phone, and it'll probably be with me at all times. Plus I'll be a lot closer than I was at the last convention I went to.