Ever been stung by a wasp?
 

I have. Today. It hurts. :shocked:

I ran home from work because I had an installer put in a screen door on my house. I had a wreath hanging up on the front door. The installer had already been here, installed the door, and left. My wreath was on the porch. When I went to pick it up, a wasp was in there and stung the back of my hand. It HURT... Come to find out, there was four "cocoon" (sp?) things in the wreath. She was protecting her bastard babies.

Anyhow, my hand is swollen. Did I mention it hurts?

What's your story?

Maria

I cannot believe you just posted this.....lol...

As a matter of fact, I was stung today too. By a bumble bee, right down from the left butt cheek... :lol: It hurts like hell. It's swole up the size of a softball and man does it itch!!! I haven't been stung for years, since i was a pip squeak. I was seeding and mulching a yard. After I went back at it, here one comes again. He was flat pissed, chasing me around, i was sqealing, it was probably a funny site. My husband come over to see what all the comotion was and found a nest of 5 or 6, I guess we disturbed their nest.

That's my story!

Next.....

I was sittin in the pool on a floaty thingy and I feel this sharp pain in my sholder and I look at it and see a wasp! It was so swollen after that!

Try getting stung...
 

by the lil' stingers in our house, Those small Scorpions made not be like their larger cousins, But their sting hurts like hell...

Btw, As a child I used to stomp barefoot onto honey bees...They are too damn stupid to sting ya back :lol: :laugh: :lol:

My first sting was by a wasp at the swim club when I was ten. I went to climb the slide and this big black wasp was on the handle of the latter. I got stung on the inside thumb part of my right hand, and did it swell and itch.
Same swim club where the yellowjacket bit my chest four times and drank the dripping blood, if you remember that story.
I* hate that place.

- Jake

I have slept and woke up since, and my hand is STILL swollen. Thank God I can type or I'd be worthless at work today!

...... or maybe I can't type.... it is Friday and all........ ;)

Maria

Sorry to hear that. And I hate to say it, but just wait until the itching starts. :(

- Jake

I was teaching a riding lesson and all of a sudden my student tells me to watch out. I didn't know what she was talking about but I moved and of course I then got stung by a wasp on my forearm. Maybe if she hadn't told me that I wouldn't have been stung. Anyway my entire forearm swelled up and I couldn't do very much with my arm. I remember I went out to dinner that night and I had to use my left hand to hold the fork and eat and I am right handed.

Lmao!!!!
 

So I have this unnatural and intense fear of flying things that sting....I HATE them...

Once, I was just peacefully lying in bed ona summer's morn. Well, I feel something on my arm, it felt like a "Flick..." like when someone flicks you...so I casually just brushed off whatever it was only to notice it wasn't leaving my arm area, well..it was attached to my arm via a stinger...dumb ass bee....I was just lying in bed...I have no clue where it came from or what prompted it to sting me....it hurt like hell....

Soo..I'm SO afraid of being stung by a wasp...I hear they hurt more than bees...and the fact that they can sting multiple times freaks me out...

Anyway Maria..hope your hand gets to feeling better....

Sorry, but your fear comment reminded me of the movie preview I saw last night. I think the film is called "Open Sea" & it seems to be about two divers who are accidentally left behind by their boat for days in the middle of the ocean. You just sea them in the water, and sharks & jellyfish are coming at their legs & they have nowhere to go. That's my big fear. There was a preview for some anaconda movie & it was nothing compared to this shark one, IMO!

- Jake

That reminds me of one summer down in Ocean City Maryland. I guess I was probably 9 or 10. The jellyfish were BAD that year...we're talking kids were bringing 10 and 12 up at a time on their boogie boards and throwing them into the trashcan because there were so many. A ton came at me at once and I had nowhere to go...my leg looked lovely.

I've never been stung by them, but the Texas beaches get their share.

And don't worry. Some day your legs might look nice again. ;) :laugh:

- Jake

First, you scream because you don't know what hit you. Then, you look down and see the floating blob and scream again because it keeps rubbing up against you. Next, you move away from it BUT...it has friends on the opposite side of you...and then you're stung five more times. I just remember running out of the water and crying because it stung so badly.

Yea, my legs might look nice if I was able to actually get outside for more than 5 minutes these days. Ooooh pale shadow... :nod:

You've got a friend in me. I'll be happy to pee on you next time it happens. :D :wavey:

- Jake