Eurasian Hornets = Bad News

[dragmerc]

that's what they said...anaphylactic shock.
maybe we should keep an epinephrine pin around all the time?
wonder if they go out of date?

[Moveon]

that's what they said...anaphylactic shock.
maybe we should keep an epinephrine pin around all the time?
wonder if they go out of date?

Some people know that they are alleregic to bees and carry an Epi Pen with them every where they go. One time I was over at the IL Garden of the Gods with some friends when I was much younger. We were rappelling off the cliff that day. One of the guys told everyone that he was allergic to bee stings and showed us how to use his Epi Pen that he carried with him in case he got stung.

When I was a little kid I was playing in the back yard at my grandpaws farm house. He kept a bee hive or two back in this area. There was a saw dust pile not too far from the bee hive and I was climbing up on the pile. A honey bee started bussing around me as the bees were starting to swarm. I swatted at the bee and ended up getting stung right on the stomach. The little sucker got me good. I ran back to the house and my grandmother was the only one home besides me. She pulled the stinger out and then applied some baking soda to the sting area which helped ease the stinging and itching. I use to catch honey bees with my hands when I was younger. I'd cup then between both hands and was careful to not squish them. Then I'd let them go. I thought I was the king of the world until I got stung on the thumb. ouch that hurt too. I stopped messing with honey bees after that.

When I was a life guard at this private recreational area with a lake I'd have to walk barefooted from the guard shack down to the beach and the life guard chair. We served food and soft drinks in the concession stand and there was always some discarded paper cup that had soft drinks in them before they were discarded on the grass. People would throw their popcycle sticks on the grass too. These sweet liquid would attrack honey bees. So I had to watch where I stepped as I got stung on the foot a few times just walking though the grass. It's hard to work as a life guard with you foot all swollwn up from a bee sting.