Sunday, September 16, 2007

A bee stung my face!



As you can see, I look like the elephant man. And I have a blanket of hives all over my body, and I do mean ALL over. Larry took the photo on the right in the hospital with his cell phone (my top lip was really swelling, but at that point, pre medicines, it hadn't moved much into my cheek).
It started out as a nice walk in the woods, but then a bee dived bombed me and stung my lip. It hurt, but not that bad. But after a few minutes, I started to itch ALL over. Larry took me to the Urgent Care center near our house. They were really crowded, but they took right me in b/c they were concerned about breathing problems developing (which never did; they call this a "localized" reaction, what a joke). They put in an IV and gave me Benadryl. It helped, but as you can see, only so much (the photo on the left was taken when we got home from the hospital, about 3 hrs after the sting).

They also gave me a prescription for Prednisone. We weren't there long, thank goodness. I have to take Benadryl EVERY 6 hrs (the dr said to set my alarm and take some in the middle of the night!) Unless a miracle occurs overnight, I'm not going to work tomorrow. It must be the same kind of bee that stung Larry last summer near his eye. They're so aggressive this time of year. I don't know if I'll ever get the kids back to the park now - Caleb was already afraid of the bees. He cried when I put him to bed - he asked me, "Are you going to be o.k.?" The girl next door (who is 8), had told him to pray that I wouldn't die (!)
My friend Sue said, if I wanted Angelina Jolie lips, there's easier ways to get them!

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