drahthaar
Active member
Headed out to pull my cameras out of the basin I scouted a few weeks ago, trying to play by the rules and all, Found lots of wet brush and tracks, but just a few pics on the cams. I always carry first aid stuff, including a epi pen, and benadryl. Usually don't get much for bees by the time Sept rolls around, but during summer scouting, I like to be prepared. I get in and out without incident, buzz home to catch up with wife and kids at the place on Echo lake.
Doing some trimming on an oak tree hanging in the road and getting into peoples cars, I end up getting stung right on top of my head. Now I had a reaction to a bee sting when I was very young, been stung dozens of times in the past thirty years without incident. Well wouldn't you know, this is the time. And i left my pack with epi pen and bendryl at home. Very quickly, my heart rate skyrockets, face/ears hot, feeling faint, chest pressure, hands and forearms become useless stumps. There is a GIANT first aid kit at the lake house, and it doesn't have benadryl? Seriously?
I tell my wife, call 911(God, just uttering those words sucks). We hit the car and tell dispatch we are on the way, just then my Aunt finds some Benadryl in the darkest recess of this home built in 1910?, stuff looks ancient but I slam two pills. we will meet the ambulance. My wife, we will call her Mario, is doing great, being calm, driving and talking to dispatch.
I feel like someone is sitting on my chest, and my vision is now two pinholes surrounded by white, I am going out and I know it, calling on all goodness within my being not to go out. Just as things look basically like they are going to end, that benadryl takes effect, I can feel it bringing me back from the brink. we meet the paramedics, they put me on oxygen and take some vitals, and I start feeling 10000x better. Wow. What can you say. I refuse service from them and head into my doc. Ended up with a steroid shot in each butt cheek, which both now feel like I have been punched by Brock Lesnar in each cheek.
But seriously, everyone should have some Benadryl in your packs, stuff is incredible, it really saved me today. Even if you are the bee sting champion, you just never know when that ONE TIME, might come. Just wanted to really impress that upon you guys, cause it was a CLOSE CALL today.
Here are a fews pics
Moose is back at the wallow, still a dinker
And this is my first marten catch, looks like it scored a meal, bird maybe?
Doing some trimming on an oak tree hanging in the road and getting into peoples cars, I end up getting stung right on top of my head. Now I had a reaction to a bee sting when I was very young, been stung dozens of times in the past thirty years without incident. Well wouldn't you know, this is the time. And i left my pack with epi pen and bendryl at home. Very quickly, my heart rate skyrockets, face/ears hot, feeling faint, chest pressure, hands and forearms become useless stumps. There is a GIANT first aid kit at the lake house, and it doesn't have benadryl? Seriously?
I tell my wife, call 911(God, just uttering those words sucks). We hit the car and tell dispatch we are on the way, just then my Aunt finds some Benadryl in the darkest recess of this home built in 1910?, stuff looks ancient but I slam two pills. we will meet the ambulance. My wife, we will call her Mario, is doing great, being calm, driving and talking to dispatch.
I feel like someone is sitting on my chest, and my vision is now two pinholes surrounded by white, I am going out and I know it, calling on all goodness within my being not to go out. Just as things look basically like they are going to end, that benadryl takes effect, I can feel it bringing me back from the brink. we meet the paramedics, they put me on oxygen and take some vitals, and I start feeling 10000x better. Wow. What can you say. I refuse service from them and head into my doc. Ended up with a steroid shot in each butt cheek, which both now feel like I have been punched by Brock Lesnar in each cheek.
But seriously, everyone should have some Benadryl in your packs, stuff is incredible, it really saved me today. Even if you are the bee sting champion, you just never know when that ONE TIME, might come. Just wanted to really impress that upon you guys, cause it was a CLOSE CALL today.
Here are a fews pics
Moose is back at the wallow, still a dinker
And this is my first marten catch, looks like it scored a meal, bird maybe?
