Chiggers

I remember Nessy told me that the night she met Shane in Brooklyn, he was limping around his Bethel room, serving all his guests pizza although he was in a lot of pain. His ankles were completely swollen, black and blue, and infected. He had gone home to Virginia the week before and walked his parents dog in the woods. He got into a nest of chiggers. A few days later the thousands of microscopic bugs had burried into his skin and created an infection. The doctor put him on antibiotics and bed rest and said if he kept walking around, they’d have to amputate his feet.