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[javacat]

I stepped on a bee in the yard yesterday. I *thought* I got the stinger out, but there's still a black dot on the bottom of my foot and google'd med pages on bee stings tell me it may still be there. Drat. The area is swollen, of course. When it itches, and I scratch, then it hurts where I've scratched. BOTHER. The upside is that I've always thought a bee sting every 5 years or so is healthy¹, and it's been about that long since the last one, sustained at my parents' house before it was sold.

1 Bee stings are used in alternative treatments for arthritis. http://arthritis.about.com/od/bee/ and http://arthritis.about.com/b/a/124523.htm