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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Oh Dear ...



You may recall that yesterday I blogged that I had been stung by one of our bees, but that it hadn't swollen up too much? It seems I spoke a tad too soon!

This morning I woke up, grabbed my glasses and put them on. That's not right; I looked in the mirror to see the right hand side of my face had swollen up alarmingly. Never mind, it wasn't sore and I was confident that once I got up and started moving around the swelling would go down. Another mistake. By the time I got home this evening the swelling had increased; my eyelid was flappy and the swelling was such that the arm of my glasses had left a trench in the swelling. The swelling now stretches from the side of my mouth, up my cheek to my forehead and back to my ear.

I'm sure I read that red wine helps such things, so ... :-)

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

The bells, Esmerelda, the bells!

9 comments:

Daz Sharpe said...

Hope the swelling settles down soon elephant man.

Unknown said...

And the trophy for the famous last words "I don't need a veil, the bees wont sting me" goes to Turbo Man, can you please remove the comedy mask before mounting the stage to accept it.....oh.

Unknown said...

bee-have turbo, i thought you were used to a good beesting at your gym?
all swell that end swell...
roy bee

Daz Sharpe said...

lol roy, very good

Turbo Man said...

Yes, very good.

Unknown said...

glad you enjoyed, it wasp my pleasure.
if you can not rided your bike now, will you be getting the buzz to the gym?

Turbo Man said...

But that was rubbish!

Cavegirl said...

Me thinks antihistamine might be in order? That's a pretty bad reaction ... do you remember that bee at Aberfeldy ...

Turbo Man said...

It's all but gone now (thankfully). Yes, I do remember that bee; and every other bee that has stung me as well. I've been had a few times.