working on the sabith

[buickanddeere]

I thought that using the rotary cutter today. To clear some horse pasture and cut back the growth out into the fields by the bush/forest/woods . Would not be a huge sin.
I got off the tractor wearing short pants and thought I had brushed by a thistle while picking up some wood chunks. Then after a few moves that would have earned myself a finalist position on dancing with the stars. Realized that I had stepped through a yellow jacket nest.
Went to the house and I always keep a bottle of Benadryl in the fridge for just such emergencies. Well that S.O.B called " Not Me" had used all but a 1/4" of the Benadryl. Just like they do with juice or milk. Of course " Not Me" could not bother their stupid &$$ to purchase more Benadryl or ask for more.
I quit counting at 24 sting sites.
Although in misery with both throbbing pain and with random pricks of pain that feel like fresh stings. After dark I took a jug of used motor oil and diesel fuel to the nest. Everything in a five foot radius around the nest became a blaze reaching the sky and is now smoldering ashes.

 

[PhysAssist]

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I thought that using the rotary cutter today. To clear some horse pasture and cut back the growth out into the fields by the bush/forest/woods . Would not be a huge sin.
I got off the tractor wearing short pants and thought I had brushed by a thistle while picking up some wood chunks. Then after a few moves that would have earned myself a finalist position on dancing with the stars. Realized that I had stepped through a yellow jacket nest.
Went to the house and I always keep a bottle of Benadryl in the fridge for just such emergencies. Well that S.O.B called " Not Me" had used all but a 1/4" of the Benadryl. Just like they do with juice or milk. Of course " Not Me" could not bother their stupid &$$ to purchase more Benadryl or ask for more.
I quit counting at 24 sting sites.
Although in misery with both throbbing pain and with random pricks of pain that feel like fresh stings. After dark I took a jug of used motor oil and diesel fuel to the nest. Everything in a five foot radius around the nest became a blaze reaching the sky and is now smoldering ashes.

Hi B&D,

While I'm glad you got your revenge on them, and I'm sure thatl it makes you feel a little better emotionally, I doubt it's helping you very much physically.

If I can offer you some unsolicited advice, don't replace the Benadryl tomorrow, instead, get yourself some Zyrtec (generic= cetirizine) and keep that around instead- it works faster, longer, and is a much stronger competitor for binding sites meaning it is both dramatocally mpre effective, and you only have to take it once or twice a day for 24-hour effect.

It is also less sedating and not at all hangover causing like benadryl is.

It is safe at up to twice the recommended dose of 10 mg per day, so you can take 10 mg twice daily if necessary.

Also Aleve (generic= naproxen sodium) @ 2x 220 mg twice daily will reduce inflammation and pain much more effectively than advil/motrin/ibuprofen/aspirin. If you can take ibu or aspirin, you can take Aleve, and it works great along with the Zyrtec to relieve the pain, swelling and itching of the stings.

You are tough, if you took all those stings and still had enough gumption to go burn the SOB's out tonite.

Kudos to ya,
Thomas

 

[k0ua]

Keep in mind to a lot of people that would have been a death sentence. From what I understand you can become sensitized to the stings by being stung also. Hymenoptera Venom Allergy

 

[buickanddeere]

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Hi B&D,

While I'm glad you got your revenge on them, and I'm sure thatl it makes you feel a little better emotionally, I doubt it's helping you very much physically.

If I can offer you some unsolicited advice, don't replace the Benadryl tomorrow, instead, get yourself some Zyrtec (generic= cetirizine) and keep that around instead- it works faster, longer, and is a much stronger competitor for binding sites meaning it is both dramatocally mpre effective, and you only have to take it once or twice a day for 24-hour effect.

It is also less sedating and not at all hangover causing like benadryl is.

It is safe at up to twice the recommended dose of 10 mg per day, so you can take 10 mg twice daily if necessary.

Also Aleve (generic= naproxen sodium) @ 2x 220 mg twice daily will reduce inflammation and pain much more effectively than advil/motrin/ibuprofen/aspirin. If you can take ibu or aspirin, you can take Aleve, and it works great along with the Zyrtec to relieve the pain, swelling and itching of the stings.

You are tough, if you took all those stings and still had enough gumption to go burn the SOB's out tonite.

Kudos to ya,
Thomas

Thanks for the info. I'm printing a copy to take to the pharmacy the next time I'm in town.
Feeling much better today. Just minor localized aches and tender if touched now.
I have to keep working on the daughter's horse's pasture and barn before winter. 2-1/2 weeks vacation upcoming will delay everything. Then the fall fair to run errands for.

 

[hutchman]

"Thou shalt remember the sabith and keep it holy or thou shalt receive 24 fiery holes"

Hope you feel better. I usually get into yellow jackets like that at least once a year and it's no fun at all. It's always the kind that are in the ground.

Once hit a big paper hornets nest on the ground built around thick weed stalks and that was the only thing worse. The big black ones with white stripes.

I've always taken Benadryl too so I'll have to try the zyrtec next time.

 

[Bird]

Hard for me to imagine the pain of that many stings. The worst I ever got was 7 stings on the back of my neck and head when I was little kid and that was bad enough.

 

[oldballs]

Worst I ever got was as a kid, about 7 yo, pulling a wagon down the alley from the Ice House with a 25 lb brick of ice. No shirt and no shoes, I got stung several times by "something". Since then just an occasional sting without much serious hurt....must be immune now to serious reaction. We have a refrigerator now.

 

[DKCDKC]

Years ago I was playing with my young kids sliding on cardboard down a steep hill - wet by sprinkler -near the house. My 5 year old son got a particularly good run and slid into the brush at the bottom of the hill... And started to scream. He had stopped right on a giant yellow jacket nest. We were all wearing bathing suites and I could see black masses of bees on his stomach. He was panicked and couldn't get up to run away. As the father, standing there in my bathing suit, I knew what I had to do and did it. I dragged him into the house, then killed the bees that came in with us. My wife, who is violently allergic to bee stings, couldn't even come in the room where we were until we were positive no live bees shared the space. It took a while. Then she drove us to the hospital. My son had some 200 stings and was kept over night while they worked on the pain and watched for reaction. I had about 70 and turned out fine - and I wanted to go back and take vengeance on the nest anyway. So I went home and, after reflection, used a long rope to pull a rototiller through the nest and it several feet into the nest... Clouds of angry bees without a home. Two days later they were gone completely.

 

[Fawken]

I think the worst for me was also as a child. We used to tightrope style walk on top of chain link fence rails, barefoot. Nest I didn't see and I fell and landed on my side on the top rail. Which hurt worse? The cracked ribs? The dozen stings? Or my buddies laughing their tails off?

 

[hutchman]

Years ago I was playing with my young kids sliding on cardboard down a steep hill - wet by sprinkler -near the house. My 5 year old son got a particularly good run and slid into the brush at the bottom of the hill... And started to scream. He had stopped right on a giant yellow jacket nest. We were all wearing bathing suites and I could see black masses of bees on his stomach. He was panicked and couldn't get up to run away. As the father, standing there in my bathing suit, I knew what I had to do and did it. I dragged him into the house, then killed the bees that came in with us. My wife, who is violently allergic to bee stings, couldn't even come in the room where we were until we were positive no live bees shared the space. It took a while. Then she drove us to the hospital. My son had some 200 stings and was kept over night while they worked on the pain and watched for reaction. I had about 70 and turned out fine - and I wanted to go back and take vengeance on the nest anyway. So I went home and, after reflection, used a long rope to pull a rototiller through the nest and it several feet into the nest... Clouds of angry bees without a home. Two days later they were gone completely.

Wow! I've gotten it bad before but nothing that bad! Thankful it turned out OK as that was pretty serious.