sigh

[unicornduke]

Managed to schedule a visit to my parents to help with the fall business over a work event that is on that same weekend. Weekend work happens so rarely, I didn't even check my work schedule for it. So now my options are: skip going that weekend (not ideal), go during the week before or after since I can take days off to make up for the weekend, or go the weekend before, which interferes with the local sheep and wool festival.

Arg

and I got stung by a bee today.

Comments

[graydon]

Such an uncouth bee!

Hope the schedule mess works out with a minimal cost in inconvenience.

[unicornduke]

It flew up my shirt and then proceeded to Be Mad About It. Stung me on the hip of course above the line of my pants which would have been too thick to sting through. I didn't kill it so there's that.

[graydon]

Commendable self-restraint!

Bees (wasps, hornets, etc.) are why I carry loratadine around in the summer. Ran into what I assume was a hornet of some kind at the zoo once, and my hand did NOT swell up and become immobile because I had antihistamines right there, which convinced me to keep the policy.

Really remarkably painful all the same.

[unicornduke]

I've had bee stings swell up a little bit, but nothing like what this one did. It's finally going down, but was about the size of a grapefruit for a bit. It wasn't really itchy either. I just let it go since it didn't hurt but maybe for future ones, I might treat it with something.

[graydon]

Reactions to stings can get worse over time. If you're getting that much swelling having some antihistamines on hand is plausibly prudent.