Heckler
Active member
thought i\'d bought it today (non boaty)
was going to pwllheli last night to boat just to do a few jobs, swmbo taking binlids shopping today, any way didnt go. this morn sat swmbo and binlids go and leave me alone, start tidying garden as you do, then strimmer out and then lilac tree wnats trimming, am in the thick of it when feel sudden pain in wrist, sodding wasp is jabbing me good style, swipe it off and realise there are hundreds of the little sods, run indoors and get a wasp spray and beat em off, leave that area alone and get on with chopping another bush down, quite warm and sweating a bit, half hr goes by and am all of a sudden itching in armpits and groin, lift shirt big rash, hmm this not right, run cold bath to lie in and try and stop itching, get in bath and suddenly think again not right this, get out and feeling very foolish dial 999, realise that lips etc are now swelling, operator wont let me put phone down, no pants on, bollocks to this aint going in ambulance with out trousers so stagger, hey there is something wrong, voice going all husky, and get trousers, operator giving me hard time, ambulance arrives, no messing you are haveing an anaphylactic shock reaction. needle in to hand and hydrocortisone straight away, almost immediately swellings and rash start to go away and nee naw to hospital. anyway am ok now, got to go and see gp, looks as if i will have to have have an epi pen near me at all times from now on. reason for post is just to let you all know, have worked all round the world, have been bitten by god knows what including wasps and never really had any probs (mozzies always made me come out in enormous lumps) and all of a sudden have now got a serious allergy, it can happen to anyone, if you get stung and develope itchiness in other parts of the body and a rash and feel funny, dont hesitate, dial 999, this could have been the day for me, be warned
stu
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was going to pwllheli last night to boat just to do a few jobs, swmbo taking binlids shopping today, any way didnt go. this morn sat swmbo and binlids go and leave me alone, start tidying garden as you do, then strimmer out and then lilac tree wnats trimming, am in the thick of it when feel sudden pain in wrist, sodding wasp is jabbing me good style, swipe it off and realise there are hundreds of the little sods, run indoors and get a wasp spray and beat em off, leave that area alone and get on with chopping another bush down, quite warm and sweating a bit, half hr goes by and am all of a sudden itching in armpits and groin, lift shirt big rash, hmm this not right, run cold bath to lie in and try and stop itching, get in bath and suddenly think again not right this, get out and feeling very foolish dial 999, realise that lips etc are now swelling, operator wont let me put phone down, no pants on, bollocks to this aint going in ambulance with out trousers so stagger, hey there is something wrong, voice going all husky, and get trousers, operator giving me hard time, ambulance arrives, no messing you are haveing an anaphylactic shock reaction. needle in to hand and hydrocortisone straight away, almost immediately swellings and rash start to go away and nee naw to hospital. anyway am ok now, got to go and see gp, looks as if i will have to have have an epi pen near me at all times from now on. reason for post is just to let you all know, have worked all round the world, have been bitten by god knows what including wasps and never really had any probs (mozzies always made me come out in enormous lumps) and all of a sudden have now got a serious allergy, it can happen to anyone, if you get stung and develope itchiness in other parts of the body and a rash and feel funny, dont hesitate, dial 999, this could have been the day for me, be warned
stu
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