Mukade

K and L were actually playing nicely together. We just got home from picking L up from daycare, and the two of them were on the sofa (lying side by side) watching a My Little Pony episode on the iPad. Little N was asleep in the carseat, so i jumped into dinner prep, (foolishly) thinking i might actually get it done by myself tonight before someone woke up or cried! All of a sudden, L's saying he sees a mushi. Then he comes over screaming saying there is a mushi down his shirt. I lift up his shirt to see a mother&&";43: mukade (about 7cm long perhaps) crawling all over his chest!!! Aaarrgh, now I'm screaming, so of course he gets more scared. Managed to get it off him, but he says the top of his shoulder hurts--there is a single red dot and it is red all around. I called J who googled it and said to put him under a hot shower (apparently over 42deg water will kill the venom.) so despite my desire to call an ambulance and have him rushed to hospital, we shower, then bath. (And L says it doesn't hurt, so I'm no longer sure if he has been bitten or not anyway now.). It also doesn't seem to be swollen or anything, so hoping he's ok.

Now I'm shitscared tho, wondering where "the other one" is--apparently they hang out in pairs. Ugh. And of course I can't sit on the sofa for fear of having one if those horrid creatures climbing over me, or worse Little N;(

Mukade suck!!!
Fwiw, the mukade is outside on the verandah in a ziplock bag. If you kill them by squashing them, they let off some smell to alert other mukade to come attack their predator--so dint want that happening. Will either throw out in Nama gomi or drown in oil, or boil to death in boiling water.

Still shuddering thinking about it:(