I heard there is a new mosquito over in our area now (upper Midwest US) that is causing some bizarre secondary infection with it's bites. There are warnings going up to parents telling us to watch for fever, lethargy and extreme swelling from mosquito bites. I haven't looked into it at all, but I wonder if you managed to get zapped with one of those guys and it interacted particularly badly with some compromised part of your immune system.

Whatever the case...ouch!

I'm thrilled as I'm beginning to learn the names and uses of the various weeds I've been pulling out of the yard for years. Some of them are actually very useful - like that stinging nettle I may have finally succeeded in eradicating after years of not realizing it was something special. Oh well.