camping,fishing and do a little swimming as well. BIG MISTAKE!!! We went down saturday night and it was gorgeous beautiful weather. It was getting dark and we had just put up the tent and I was cooking dinner. Then all the sudden the wind started blowing like crazy, sand was everywhere, I BURNT the dinner and then we went to go to bed ,come to find out the windows in our tent do not block out sand. There was sand all over our bedding!!! Plus the wind was blowing so hard the tent was caving in. So lucky the seats in my car( a 2door pontiac sunfire) folded down and we were able to make a somewhat comfortable bed in there. It was a little squishy. But it worked. We woke up the next morning and the sun was shining and it was beautiful morning. I went and made breakfast which was impossible to burn because it was a fruit bowl and pre- made donuts.LOL Afterwards we went fishing. We fished most of the morning and caught a few bass. We were having so much fun. We took a break and ate lunch around oneish and thats when I started itching. I thought maybe it was just dry skin so i put some lotion on .We went back into the water did some swimming and more fishing. About 2 hrs later I was starting to get really itchy . The only thing that made it feel better was if i went to the really deep cold water. Clint started to notice something was wrong with me. He asked if I was itchy because he was feeling it to. Thats when we decided not to stay till monday and just pack up and go home. By the time we were done we were both itching our skin RAW! It was a miserable drive home. When we got home I looked on the Sand Hollow website,Come to find out that in the shallow water where we were fishing and swiming, there is a parasite in the water. SWIMMERS ITCH!!!! The next morning when we woke up Clint had red bumps on his calves and mine were all over my body. The website had said they would go away after 3-7 days. But by tuesday I had these huge red bumps all over my body!!! I was not even itching anymore it was just VERY VERY PAINFULL. So then I decided to go to the doc about it. The doc said Mine was the worst case she had ever seen and that she was going to report it to Sand Hollow and that I should do the same. She also wrote a note excusing me from work till Friday or Saturday. But at least we got to spend our anniversary together even though it was with swimmer's itch lol
Here are a few pictures of the weekend:)
There was a Carnival in Cedar this last weekend. We went with some friends on Friday night and had a BLAST!! Here is some pictures of that!!





Yikes! What an anniversary! Atleast you won't ever forget it;) Your legs look so painful..what rotten luck! Hope you guys are feeling better soon!!
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness Krista!!! OUCH!!! I'm so sorry! I sure hope you have some intense cream or something for those because if it was me I would have itched or cut my legs off by now.
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