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Stupid yellow jackets out in force as I’m cleaning fish. Ask Slab, he witnessed me taking one to the upper lip 7-8 years ago at Enid. I promise you, it will make you lose your vision for awhile [emoji23]Attachment 474145
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Ouch! Thanks for the tip
Get you a Bug-a-Salt and go hunting.
Those critters certainly hurt
I had the same thing happen to me before too!! :yikes
They drown in my Wild Turkey.
Vision, we don’t need no stinkin vision…:Rofl. Lots colder here so they should disappear
Many, many years ago, in late October I drank a yellow jacket in the last drink of a beer. It stung me in the back of the throat on it's way down, where it didn't stay long. It was a Saturday and a couple of my buddies was at my house, one of them called a local doctor who met us at his office. I laid down in the back seat while they drove, by the time we got to the Dr's office I could barely breathe. It was like trying to breathe through a mixing straw they used in mixed drinks in bars. When we got there the Dr had a shot drawn up and everything to perform a tracheostomy, luckily, he didn't have to do it. After the shot I laid still and breathed as well as I could. After what seemed like an eternity, I could feel the constriction in my throat slowly lessening and my breaths came easier. When I could talk the doctor asked me if I was allergic to be stings, no, he said well you will be now and the older you get the worse it will get. He was right I have Benadryl in my vehicles, shop, the house and take it with me on trips, so far, I haven't needed an epi pin. I honestly believe if I was the type of person who panics I wouldn't have survived the ride to the doctor's office. Yellow jackets in you drink can lead to a very serious situation.
Dang scary story. Really going to pay attention to mine as well as my family’s drinks now. Glad you made it through and stayed calm.
Them yellow jackets ain’t no joke I am allergic to them also.+Cross+
Wasn’t a human but my big dog bothered one and when it flew at her, she bit at it and it got her on the side of the tongue. My wife found her barely able to breathe and her tongue swollen to about three times its normal size. In a flash she got her to the vet who gave her a shot to counteract the bite and she was ok in a short while. Those things don’t play. Just a note to y’all, if there’s one buzzin me and I start moving don’t get in my path. My wife learned this early on our relationship as I almost ran over her while she was asking “what’s wrong?” I wasn’t slowing down for nothin!! Mine is a mental allergy.
7-8 years ago! Heck I can't remember last weekend. Why do you think I post picture stories, it is my memory! You got a pic of you with that fat lip, then maybe I'll remember? :bangheadQuote:
Originally Posted by J White
Never drank one , but about every kind of stinging wasp/ bee has had me in it’s crosshairs .
Got literally chased down by a whitefaced hornet that finally got me in my garage after I infuriated it in the back yard while mowing.
Hung onto my top lip and stung me inside of it , rushed to the hospital as well , doctor said I was lucky to not have been choked out over it ,my lip got so enormous it almost closed my mouth ....scared me good for sure.
Never drank one but got whacked by several earlier this year when I got to close to a nest I didn't know was there. While fishing in California with Sonny one morning I took the lid off my coffee cup for it to cool down I caught a fat male gill and as I was unhooking it he fertilized my coffee, perfect shot. Looked over at Sonny who had witnessed the incident and said " I'm not drinking that".
Yes, they can be really nasty. So far I’m not allergic to them but they sure do hurt. Fall around an apple tree can be the worst!
Bob
Was weeding eating and had a handful of them critters fly up my shorts and commenced to stinging. You can toss a weed eater a good ways when you start to get popped.
The little Bulldog went under the deck messing around. He had a cluster of them on his side by his back leg. He was spinning in a circle doing a Tasmanian devil impression. They got me pretty good in the hand went I grabbed them off of him and went to smashing them
I had a similar event on Saturday morning. I took a drink of coffee from my Yeti cup and the coffee was moving in my mouth! I quickly spit it out to find a bug had made it's way into the cup for a sip and I had caught him in the act. Good thing I was outside when it occurred, as i'da painted the house with coffee! :Rofl
No, they go in willingly to get away from their wife and troubles for a while and overdo it and BAM! :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by rojoguio
I drank a honey bee while fishing, stung me in the back of my throat. Luckily I didn't have any kind of reaction because we were a long ways from any kind of help. The stinger stayed in my throat until I got home and my sister pulled it out with some tweezers. Never will forget that pain.
Ouch!!!
These stories are insane!! I will have to be more careful yikes! Glad made it, scary stuff
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It's the stuff you learn after you think you know it all that's REALLY important!:highfive
Chris
Just apply tea tree oil, and you be OK.
LARGE Australian Tea Tree Oil
I have only been stung once. One got me in the front shoulder while the other got me in the back shoulder blade. I did have a friend who picked a wild pear off a tree and while rotating it to take a bite he found the opposite side had 4 or 5 yellow jackets. They sting him in the lip and mouth. He looked like he had went 12 rounds with Mike Tyson. We were around 12 years old then and that picture of his face has stuck with me all these years. I give them their space when I encounter them.
That Tree Oil is the Bomb! It Works!Quote:
Originally Posted by Slab
Totally Awesome Post my friend, well said!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gone Fishin'
Happened to me at Kentucky lake back in 2015.
My story isn't about me but my oldest son. Told him to clean a fence row while I was at the plant working. Needless to say, he came running through the yard and jumped into the pool. He got nailed several times. By the time I got home, he was feeling sick, so to the hospital we go. On the way, I looked over at him, and he had taken a different form. He looked kinda like the blob from the neck up. Not wanting to scare him I just sped up. The Dr in the er was a family friend and popped him with a shot. Everything turned out good we now keep epi pens for him even at our house. I know this is long but every time I see a movie where someone swells up after a bite or sting. I think of that day and laugh at how he looked. (It wasn't funny at the time.) PSA the Dr told us each time you are stung, your resistance goes down. He said some people it will never bother other than the sting itself.
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