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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:21 PM
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A bee just stung me, inside my house.
How the fuck does this happen???

Pissed off and swelling,
Jennifer
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:22 PM
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1. Damn... I hate that!
I had a wasp chase me around for hours in my house a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately I wasn't stung. What happened?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:24 PM
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2. Just making a bowl of cereal, when excruciating pain broke out...
... on my leg. I'm like WTF??? Looked down, saw the stinger, and started to swell.

And I can't even find the little bastard!
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:25 PM
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5. Mix some baking soda with a little water
to make a paste and put it on the sting. The baking soda will neutralize the poison in the sting and alleviate the pain a bit.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:29 PM
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9. THANK YOU
thank you thank you thank you!! :D
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:25 PM
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4. LOL!
I'm sorry to laugh, but that almost sounds comical.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:28 PM
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7. Oh it WAS comical... after that fact.
I was finally able to shoo him out and spray the heck outta him with a hose.
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Nightjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:38 PM
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18. They die shortly after stinging
but I'm sure it felt good to get it anyway. Hope you feel better.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:41 PM
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21. Wasps don't die after stinging, just honeybees.
Wasps can sting you over and over and over and over and over again. :scared:
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Nightjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:50 PM
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28. Thanks
I like to stay informed....unlike Reublicans.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:24 PM
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3. No respect for property rights

apparently
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:25 PM
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6. How does it happen?
Bees have stingers that they use to penetrate your flesh, silly!

Here, like this:



I know, I know, that was cruel. :evilgrin:

Sorry you're all stung and such. :hug:
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:28 PM
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8. I'd have no complaint if the little asshole stung me outside.
It's the fact that he stealthily zapped me for no apparent reason in my own kitchen. What a dick! And how did he get away? Don't some bees die when they sting you, or have I been lied to since I was five years old? :-)
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:30 PM
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10. Oh, if the stinger was still in your leg, she's dead by now.
Pulled half her guts out in you.

At least you can hold on to that little slice of revenge. ;)
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:32 PM
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12. Well then where the hell is she?
I want to give her a piece of my mind.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:33 PM
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13. She is in hell, Jen.
And there is no honey.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:31 PM
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11. I am sorryJenJen
I volunteer to kiss it and make it better though.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:34 PM
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15. Awww!
You're sweet! But, thanks to shraby's suggestion above, my ouchie-spot now tastes like baking soda and stuff. :D
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:44 PM
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24. lol
Like I ever let baking soda and stuff get in the way of a sneaky excuse for... well, being me. :D
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:34 PM
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14. Are you allergic?
My mom got stung once, and an hour later she had to go to the hospital.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:35 PM
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16. Hmmm.
Could everyone just watch the DU Lounge? If I stop posting in about 45 minutes, call 911, 'k? :D
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:38 PM
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17. Seriously
If you feel odd at all...Have someone drive you, or call an ambulance. No joke!

:hug:
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:39 PM
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19. ouch!
where are you? isn't it late in the year for that?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:47 PM
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26. Southwestern Ohio.
I thought the bees were gone, too. Apparently, they're organizing and putting up a last stand. :D
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:40 PM
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20. You may have a nest or hive
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 01:40 PM by PCIntern
in a region of the house and not be aware of it. If you have a fireplace, or chimney, or check behind exterior walls during the day to see if you can hear a low noise - they're remarkably resourceful but what ever you do, DO NOT poke at walls to see if they're right behind. They can dig right up to the wallpaper and you will be very sorry if you do that.

I grew up in Yellowjacket country and knwo wherefrom I speak.

Good luck - also, buy an Epi-pen. Just in case for the future.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:42 PM
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22. also in ceiling light fixtures under attics...
bad news bears, man...
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:51 PM
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29. that happened to my mom
a couple months ago. she kept getting wasps in her living room. i went poking thru her closet and tapped on the wall and about 20 came swarming thru this little hole up in the corner we almost had fits!!! she had to get an exterminator they'd set up housekeeping in the attic. eeewwwww....poor mom :)
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:42 PM
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23. Get some benadryl and take it promptly
if you are swelling that may be an allergic reaction
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:46 PM
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25. Well, I feel ok and the swelling is going down...
... I've got some Benadryl in the house, but I'm afraid to take it, because it makes me very sleeeeepy and I have to be at work in two hours.

:-(

What to do?
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4MoreYearsOfHell Donating Member (943 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 06:28 PM
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32. Put some ice on it
to take the swelling down...
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MrSandman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 01:48 PM
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27. Sh*t happens...
Sometimes for no apparent reason such as a bee sting.

Sometimes with evil aforethought such as FL in 2000.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:35 PM
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30. Bummer , I usually stick my dogs on bees if they come in the house
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 05:35 PM by proud patriot
Crunchy Protein :D
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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:56 PM
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31. Can I suck out the poison, like with a snake bite?
:silly:
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