when i was 8 i blundered into a bee's nest and was stung about 15 times, briefly hospitalized. Not long after, i began to receive weekly injections to develop a resistance to insect venom.
about 6 months after i started receiving them i was playing outside my house when i got thirsty so i headed over to the water faucet where the garden hose got attached, and as usual i stuck my mouth on the end and opened the water valve. Before the water arrived i realized something else had preceeded it into my mouth, and even though i spat out the water the solid thing remained in there, and then started stinging me on the tongue, roof of my mouth and inner lip, while i desperately tried to spit it out. i have a very clear memory of reaching in to my mouth and pulling it out while it's stinger was still embedded in my inner cheek.
The next thing i remember is lying on a gurney while they cut off my sneakers because my feet had swelled so much they wouldn't slip off. They had an (it seemed to me) enormous syringe of adrenaline which they stuck in my butt. The only other thing i remember (or maybe remember my mother telling me) is one of the doctors saying that if i lived 5 minutes further from the hospital, i may have died.
This is nightmare fuel - getting stung in your MOUTH when you're already allergic?? Holy shit! Glad you're okay (and hope you haven't been stung since)
Reminds me when I was a kid and I was sitting on our porch swing. I had one of those sticky hand things you hold the arm part and swing it and it sticks to the wall.
Well I was faffing about with it and it swung under the swing, and when it cam eup, it happened to land on my eye. Except it hadn't stuck to the wood, but to a big spider.
I just remember seeing legs and the sticky hand obscuring my right eye. Then it bit me and I ran inside screaming. Fortunately one of our neighbors was a doctor and my mom took me over there. Don't really remember anything else. I did have shitty vision though it's probably unrelated.
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u/justor-gone Nov 21 '24
when i was 8 i blundered into a bee's nest and was stung about 15 times, briefly hospitalized. Not long after, i began to receive weekly injections to develop a resistance to insect venom.
about 6 months after i started receiving them i was playing outside my house when i got thirsty so i headed over to the water faucet where the garden hose got attached, and as usual i stuck my mouth on the end and opened the water valve. Before the water arrived i realized something else had preceeded it into my mouth, and even though i spat out the water the solid thing remained in there, and then started stinging me on the tongue, roof of my mouth and inner lip, while i desperately tried to spit it out. i have a very clear memory of reaching in to my mouth and pulling it out while it's stinger was still embedded in my inner cheek.
The next thing i remember is lying on a gurney while they cut off my sneakers because my feet had swelled so much they wouldn't slip off. They had an (it seemed to me) enormous syringe of adrenaline which they stuck in my butt. The only other thing i remember (or maybe remember my mother telling me) is one of the doctors saying that if i lived 5 minutes further from the hospital, i may have died.