--- In insectstings@yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Weeks" <cathy@...> wrote:
>Hi Cathy ive been on maintenance for about the same amount of time
as you mabe a little longer and im still wary too i agree as far as
once youve had a reaction we all tend to fear anything with wings
and a stinger even though our chance of having a reaction while on
maintenance is less than that of a person who has never been stung
in there life!! as David said were acually being stung every time we
go in for a shot! infact the shots are equivilent to being stung
dozens of times the honeybee shot is only about 2 stings worth of
venom but the yellowjacket shots are around 30 or so single stings
for hornets around 20 or more stings!! that would make the mixed
vespid shot roughly around 70 or more stings worth of venom in one
shot!!! David and myself confirmed this imformation on the board a
few months ago since most people incuding doctors believe there are
only 2 stings in a maintenance shot this imfomation has all been
documented by the venom manufacures-scientists-biologists and so on!!
the piont is yet where all wary of getting one little sting by a
live bee or wasp yet were being injected with several dozen stings
delivered by a needle everytime we go in for a maintenance shot!!!
Rich
> Hi all,
> It's been awhile since I posted - hard to believe, but I've been
on
> maintenance for 7 months now, and of course I'm in the middle of
> wasp season now.
>
> I think my kids (12 and 4) are more scared of the bugs than I am,
> though neither are allergic. It didn't help that they helped take
> me to the hospital when I had the reaction!
>
> I *try* to be calm and cool around them - to not allow them to
rule
> my life. I also avoid them to some extent. There's a wildflower
> patch near where we park one of our cars, and one day we saw 40 or
> 50 of the buggers buzzing around. Needless to say, we don't go
and
> frolic in the flowers! But.... I can't get over being wary. I
> guess, once you've had a reaction, you never quite look at them
the
> same again. They used to be no more than a nuisance - now they
> are... a respected enemy.
>
> Sigh...
>
> Cathy Weeks
>