Re: Bringing things to a close - suggestions?

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:43:16 -0700, Alma Hromic Deckert
<anghara@xxxxxxxxx> seems to have said:

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:25:06 GMT, Rik <rik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alma Hromic Deckert wrote:
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:28:18 +0200, Irina Rempt <irina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Catja Pafort wrote:

Have you ever _met_ a hornet?
Ah, but those aren't the size of a *dog*. Unless you know any dogs the
size of a mouse.

Chihuahuas come close <g>

A chihuahua-sized wasp would seriously freak me out. I got stung in the
throat by a wasp when I was 6 and I've had issues with the species ever
since.


Yes, I'm allergic to the little buggers, too (wasps, not chihuahuas,
although I can think of other species of dogs that I'd prefer to have
to look at...) I remember once, in school, sometime in late spring or
early summer, I was sitting next to an open window writing something
in my notebook and I felt something land on my head, and - I don't
know what I was thinking, that it was a leaf fluttering in through the
window, whatever, but I lifted my left hand to brush it off of me...
and got stung on a fingertip.

Within five minutes or I looked like Popeye the Sailor man, with my
entire arm from fingertips to elbow ballooning to three times its
size. I got sent packing for medical attention, pronto, and everything
ended well, but ever since that day I'm PARALYZED when I see something
black-and-yellow and sting-equipped anywhere near me. I'm not
anaphylactic and I don't carry an epi pen or anything like that - but
I'm terrified of the criters because I have no clue what I'd do if I
got stung somewhere without immediate access to a medical
intervention...


You should carry an epi pen if you've ever had any kind of allergic
reaction to a stinging insect. There is no telling when that reaction
could escalate.

Lucy Kemnitzer
still
.

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