Sparky-Watts
Banned
I got nailed on the leg by a hornet today at work. I'm deathly allergic to hornets, wasps, and bees. I managed to get my epi pen and use it before calling 911. By that time, I could barely breathe enough to get the address out,and eventually passed out. They took me to the hospital, and after only a couple of block in the ambulance, I woke up and was breathing better, thanks to the epi pen. They treated me with benadryl and solumedrol enroute to the ER, and by the time I got there, I was doing pretty well. They held me for about 4 hours for observation. Since my condition had improved so well, and since it had been about5 hours since I got stung, they decided I wasn'y goig to have a relapse and sent me home. It's hit me one other time that bad before,and I was in respiratory arrest by the time the medics got there, because I didn't hvae an epi pen with me at the time. I'm pretty sure I would have died today without the epi pen. I doubt I would have had enough air to call 911 without it. My leg iand foot are swollwn up like a boalloon, and my chest is pretty sore still,but thank God I'm alive. Now I gotta go get horizontal, as thinsg are geting pretty fuzzy again. Nite nite.