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Hi Robin,
Welcome to the club ! As always, sorry you got to join. It is nice to hear from someone else that says "Ya'll". It really changes your life when this happens. I finally made it thru to the "maintenance club" after many months of venom therapy. Haven't had my first maintenance jab yet, but will soon. The fear ??? I don't know the answer. I do know that we don't go thru all these months of agony to let the little "buzz"ards keep us down. I live in Ohio and have had a few months of reprieve. There is always the chance that one will wake from it's little winter nap and stick ya before you know it. My passion is my motorcycle and my pets. This week end was the first time since August 2003 that I have been out riding my motorcycle in the DAYLIGHT with the temps over 50 degrees. What do I see? A sleepy yellowjacket just floating passed me at a stop sign.
EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK ! Remaining calm on the outside, inside I feel like I just met a grizzly bear in the outhouse !
At least you know that you are not alone. It does seem to help some. Like your not nuts or at least not the only one that is. Please don't even feel like a wimp ! People that haven't been thru this don't have a clue what's been going on with you.
What do the rest of ya'll think about the fear thing. Prior to getting to two stings I just tried my best to stay wherever "they" were not. Now, I know they are not suppose to be able to kill me, but they do still scare the you know what out of me. I think I heard it here........time.
Nice to meet you Robin
Debbie
----- Original Message -----From: maxboots1Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:50 PMSubject: [insectstings] Hey Ya'll from Louisiana USAHey Ya'll
I'm so glad I've found You guys!
I feel like I've been living in the 'twilight zone'. Like I'm all
alone.
True, I am by myself alot. My husband and I live in a rural area, in
NW LA., on 3 acres of land.(no close neighbors) My husband works
fulltime, and I'm a fulltime homemaker, gardener and momma of an old
yellow dog and three ducks.
I've always loved every part of nature, I feed the birds, have
bluebird houses, and a purple martin house. I garden extensively, and
have always loved it......Until.
24 July 2003...I was pushmowing around our pond, when extreme pain
hit me. I knew what it was because I had been stung on the back of
the hand the month before while pushmowing in that same area.
This time however I knew something was Wrong.
Yellow Jackets!
They got me on the back of each hand(thru my gloves) and on the back
of each leg(on the calf, thru my jeans).They were on my shoes. I
stopped the mower, and slowly walked away. Trying to stay calm, I
leaned against the fence and took one foot, then the other, to
sweep/crush them off my shoes.
The pain, something was so wrong. My hands and feet were hurting and
then the itching started, everywhere! My eyes and top lip started
swelling. The itching started feeling like more stings! I Ran to the
house. I was about a football field away. I got there and in a panic
started taking off all my clothes. I thought for sure 'they' were
still on me. They were no longer on me but I had broken out into
hives Every where.
Swelling up everywhere, I figured I better call my DH at work and see
if he could come home to help me. I asked him to stop at the
pharmacy, for some benadryl(I knew my Mom took it for stings).
Dumb me, I didn't go to the doctor until the next day.(course, I
never did fall asleep, I think I was to scared)
Thank God, I never did have trouble breathing! My Internal medicine
doctor told me I was extremely lucky. He gave me shots of some kind
in my hip. Gave me a 'scrip' for 2 epi pens, and advise me to Never
get stung again! How nice of him!
Thanks to the internet, I knew about venom immunotherapy, so I got a
referral. Boy, I failed that skin test big time, the doc had all
those vials ready and I only made it thru one round! The honeybee was
my only friend!
Sixteen weeks of a shot of wasp in the left arm, a fire ant in the
left arm; and in the right arm is a 'cocktail' of yellow jacket, gold
hornet and white hornet. Then we skipped one week, then two weeks,
then three weeks, now I'm at once a month....Except for the fire ant.
I'm on my 23rd weekly fire ant, and I still have 12 more weeklys.
Early in the weekly therapy, every time there was an increase in
venom I would get bad reactions. So the doc said 'we' would take it
slow.
Sorry this is so long.
How do I deal with the Fear! I Have to be outside, but I find myself
doing more 'house' work than ever before. Gardening season really
never comes to an 'end' down here. I am behind in alot of outside
work. It will be grass mowing time in March. I'm scared, and I really
shouldn't be. There's not much of a 'winter' here. On sunny days, the
honeybees and wasp come out, their kind of half a sleep and will land
on you. You don't even hear them. I just 'freak' out.
I'm up two stings in my therapy, so these guys can not kill me!
Do I just need more time? It helps to 'hear' what ya'll have been
through. I feel like such a 'wimp'.
It just seems so unfair! I had no idea something like this could
happen. I'm so mad but so stupidly scared.
I will get through this. I Will!
Thanks, Ya'll for being Here! Glad I found someone to talk to!
Sincerely, Robin
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