I made it to 38 without ever having this happen to me.
It’s not a big deal really, it probably happens to most people a few times in their life.
But I was minding my own business. Not hurting anyone. Simply cutting the grass.
Then all of a sudden I felt it on my neck…the sting.
It gave no warning. No buzzing. No nothing.
Wow.
OUCH.
I swear it felt like my neck and jaw swelled up like a grapefruit and man did it hurt!
Luckily my husband was home and took over. I need to start calling him Dr. because he doctors all of us up when we need it. He sprayed something on it, handed me an ice pack and hovered over me to make sure I didn’t die. Like I said, I’d never gotten stung by a bee before so he was concerned how I would react.
I didn’t die.
And it feels fine now – a bit sore but fine.
Somewhere in the process of all this I said “dammit” with Abby around. So, of course, she paused and repeated it, “dammit”.
I told her “don’t say that”.
She asked me, “don’t say dammit?”
I said “yes, don’t say that.”
She asked “why can’t I say dammit?”
I responded “only grown-ups can say it.”
She asked “so when I get bigger I can say dammit?”
I said “yes, when you get bigger.”
She said “ok, when I get bigger I will say dammit.”
I was laughing by the third time she said it. This may become a problem….
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I’m sorry that you got stung by a bee, that sucks. I used to get stung by stepping on them outside in the summer. My mom has rose bushes all around the outside of their house, and the darn things would choose to die on the ground with the stingers facing upwards, so of course, I would accidentally step on one a few times a year. Living in California, the bees are out and about year-round. Your daughter is so cute by the way! My son is almost 3 years old and he is starting to say the darnedest things. Lately, it’s pronouncing Percy from the Thomas & Friends shows, lol. It sounds like a very bad word for him to be saying, but what can ya do.
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I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who had a late first bee sting. Mine happened at 19 or 20. Glad you’re ok :)
Thanks Becca!
I thought most people had been stung at one point in their lives, but I’m finding out a lot of people haven’t.
Sorry to be laughing with you because I have been there with the swearing child, but NOT with the bee sting… I have made it to 44 years old and never been stung. I’m a nervous wreck, because my grandfather was allergic – seriously allergic.
I keep my distance…. OH, and that is another thing that I don’t ever do: mow the lawn.
I am a kept woman, after all… TeeHee!
LOL
I choose to mow the lawn for the exercise. It’s 2 hours of walking once a week and the lawn MUST be mowed so I have no excuse LOL.
That bee snuck up on me, I never even saw it, even after it got me.
When my daughter was about 8 or 9 she came to me one day to ask if she could use swear words. I said “No” trying to explain that they were mommy and daddy words and still bad words. She politely proceeded to tell me that this was a violation of her constitutional rights and against her freedom of speech. WOW! In one hand I as saying what an intelligent daughter I had and with the other hand I wanted to spank her. I then explained that if she really felt that she needed to swear to not let her Dad, her Grandparents and/or any teachers hear her doing so. At 24, she still does not swear that much.