![]() ![]() Here is how my arm looked Saturday night: This was a brand new experience. Fortunately, I’ve never had an anaphylactic reaction to stings. The last time I got stung was while I was a camp counselor at Cranbrook years ago. In all of the times I’ve been stung on my life, including once when I was a kid and got stung IN THE MOUTH at the cider mill when I was with my brother and grandma, I’ve never had a reaction like this. I spent the rest of Saturday Googling about Cellulitis, a bacterial infection. ![]() Her daughter often gets a reaction like this from mosquito bites, and has needed to go on antibiotics. It was while I was posting updates about this plight that a family friend replied to a video on Instagram to say that I should consider getting checked out at the doctor. Saturday morning, the area was still red and seemed to be getting worse as the day went on. While the pain of the sting subsided by the end of the day Friday, the area on my arm seemed to be getting redder, itchier, and warmer. I posted updates on my Instastories throughout the day (and kept making this face obviously). I put ice on it to help with the pain and swelling, but ultimately this was just the beginning. Then the area started to get swollen and red. It stung, of course, for a couple of hours. I also remembered that time is of the essence to make sure the stinger doesn’t stay in too long, so I grabbed a magazine and used one of the cardboard inserts to scrape out the stinger. I quickly went inside to find something to scrape the stinger off of my arm I remembered learning as a kid that you should use something blunt like a credit card to scrape it out instead of using tweezers. Its stinger was still stuck in my arm as I stomped on him with my sandal. Margot was taking a nap, and I sat on a lounge chair out on the deck ready to relax with Crazy Rich Asians. I didn’t even see the little jerk I only felt the sting on my inner arm, and quickly swatted it away from me before it landed on the deck. I should be feeling pretty relaxed - and I am - after spending the last few days enjoying the warm weather, boat rides, and an extra couple pair of hands helping keep the girls occupied.īut something happened on Friday that hasn’t happened in over a decade: I got stung by a yellow jacket. I just returned from a full Labor Day weekend at my parents’ lake house. ![]()
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