Re: Bringing things to a close - suggestions?

Lucy Kemnitzer <ritaxis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

I wonder,... I've heard that exposition can immunize (prevent)
allergies, and also that exposition can cause allergies.

So I wonder, should I feel lucky for being bitten by everything smaller
than a beetle that gets within smelling distance of me?

On a camping holiday (I was perhaps 12) with a group of kids, I woke up
one morning with my ankle grown a good quarter. Not an allergic
reaction; it had a 'bracelet' of stings all around. (Not from proper
gnats, we call them 'Bremse', 'break', here, no idea why. They do the
stings that are surrounded by a ~5cm diameter, hard, slight bulb. There
were enough stings to make a signifficant difference to which shoes
still fit.) I took it with humour, saying something along the line of
one of them had a party on my ankle. :)

The cat's fleas, when I was about 9, thought I was a tasty meal, too.

When I was about eight, I got stung by a bee when I was sitting by the
public swimming pool. (I couldn't go into the water for a bandage
covering a freshly removed corn, which I had forgotten about until I
took my shoes off after arrival. The three 'stings' the doctor did for
local anaestetization were truly horrible, but they don't count. :) ) I
think it was a bee anyway. If anyone knows about them; I still remember
the long 'stalk' by which it hung, connected to my arm.

And then there are all the ordinary gnat bites I get covered in whenever
they get a chance.

The hornet that came into our classroom one day (first years in school),
didn't sting me, though. Neither did any of the wasps I've seen, at
least not that I know. (Could their stings have been mistaken for those
the 'Bremse' things described above do?)

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