The Fly That Loved Me.

[oneighty]

He or she has been riding in my car now for the better part of the week sometimes riding on the top part of the dash board watching traffic (I bet) with his/her all seeing eyes.

Sometimes it/he/she zips about the interior of the car zooming hither and yon. Now and then he/she/or it lands on my nose causing me to become momentarily cross eyed. I have had to keep my mouth closed being afraid she/it/or he might fly in and die there.

I drove about six miles today to the 'Ace used to be the place' hardware store which is now a 'Tru Valu' (Again). I kept the windows down to let he/it/or she out into the wild where other flies might live and love.

Then I went shopping for a few minutes. Upon getting back into the car I noticed the fly was still there doing fly things. I chased it out of the car but it zoomed right back in because it loved me.

On the way home the fly that loved me landed on my lip where it did a dance of some sort or another I was hoping.

At home I told my wife about the fly that loved me. She suggested maybe he/she/or it was laying eggs on my lip. Not dancing.

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[bain_sidhe]

1. better a fly than a mosquito!

But, well, EEEWWWW Fly eggs on lips...

hmmm... could be a horror story there... ::scribble, scribble::

:D

[oneighty]

2. Did you know

that a forty pound bushel of crab bait can turn into thirty pounds of maggots in only two days.

And I have a story about five bushels of crab bait that made that amazing transformation.

It happened like this.................and then..........

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Which which rises a question? How many pounds of maggots am I going to (ID) evolve into?

I cannot wait it is so exciting.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

3. oooooh Ed

that is yukky

[bain_sidhe]

4. Yuck. But it's one way

to lose weight, I guess. (40 lbs to 30 lbs)

OTOH, just think of how rich you'll be, selling unneeded bits of yourself to doctors (who are now using maggots to clean out infected wounds)

Maggot medicine gains popularity
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1907065.stm

Maggots are fast becoming the treatment by choice for healing wounds in British hospitals. And for good reason too.

They are currently one of the most effective means of treating wounds that are infected by the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can cause life-threatening illness in hospital patients.

And the antibiotic methicillin is just one of many drugs which are being overpowered by multi-drug-resistant forms of bacteria.

This means maggots are good news for patients and hospital doctors who once lived in fear of multi-drug-resistant forms of bacteria for which there was previously precious little treatment.

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Maggots, however, do not come cheap, with 200 maggots costing £100.

This is in comparison to a typical surgical dressing for an ulcer costing about £10.

[oneighty]

5. The weight change is a guess.

Maggots were observed during the Korean war to be excellent wound cleaners. I expect that through out man's history this wiggly phenomena was observed and utilized.

Crabbers and maggots sort of co-exist. I was a crabber. A fellow crabber inadvertently left five bushels of menhaden crab bait in his boat (while off chasing a sweet young thing) and that is how I know about the spontaneous evolution of fish to maggots.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

6. is that a fish story Ed?

there was an episode of ER about maggots being used for wound cleaning several years ago

I understand leeches can also be used in wound cleaning. They excrete an anti-coagulant, drawing a fresh blood supply to the site,as a good friend recently told me