Fighting the brave battle
We've been pestered lately on the compound by an insane amount of flies. Specifically the harmless housefly and unfortunately, mosquitos. I am one of the lucky few that the mosquitos not only love, but look at as a feast. They come to me as if I was the last source of blood on earth, and leave me with beautiful bumps that scream for some scratchy scratchy. This has made me so paranoid that I can hardly sleep. And when I sleep, I dream about being bitten by mosquitos.
So I went to a pharmacy here in Jeddah hunting for some cream or spray to relieve the itching or repel the thirsty creatures. Once there I was offered two options; a spray that repels for 20 riyals and a cream for healing for 10 riyals. The cheapskate me (and due to my suspicion of such repel sprays) I went for the cream. A couple of nights later I was going crazy from all the itching and decided to try out the cream. Just to be safe, I read the accompanying leaflet to find out about the side effects. It only listed one (actually, it referred to the side effect as "undesirable", which side effect isn't?): itching!! Talk about a no-win situation...

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as written by Tobbi G. at 11:34 PM GMT