chefcomesback
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In 2009 I have learned that I am highly allergic too bee stings. I got stung couple times when I was a kid, but other than little pain I didn't have any problems. The incident on 2009 was little different , I was checking the corn that I was growing in my yard and I realized I had stepped on to fire ant nest. I got stung by at least by 20-40 of them. The rest was little scary but it was an eye opener. Prior to that I had no health problems , allergies , I was 6 4" , 220 # ex pro athlete and something small as a bee could kill me. It was annoying beacuse I had a nice veggie patch with 15 different kinds of hebs , vegetables and berries on it and it was full of bees as expected. After that I have never left the house without my epi-pen
After we left US for Australia I was more concerned about bugs,spiders and snakes since everyting in this continent can kill you :curse:
We live in a very rural area and we found many red back sipders in our house , and we even found one underneath my daughters crib.
Knowing they are not as dangerous as funnel we spiders I wasn't that intimidated ..... until yesterday!!
So , we decided to go to Australian Reptile Park and we watched some live shows of people handling snakes,crocodiles spiders etc.. After the show we are talking to the spider handler we were talking about how to avoid , what to do and stuff like that. Then he mentioned that " If you are allergic to bee stings , you will have half of the time to rush to hospital compared to normal people "
:shocked3::shocked3: He also showed us how to catch a funnel web spider , how to use compression band to minimise the effects of the bite
It is summer here and obviously spider season , the closest hospital is 40minutes away ,if my boss is around he takes me with his chopper it will probably take 15 minutes. I was kind of relieved after being here 4 years and not bitten by anything serious but my false sense of security is gone.
I love it here but I will be singing this song more often
[video=youtube;kdihHnaOQsk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdihHnaOQsk[/video]
After we left US for Australia I was more concerned about bugs,spiders and snakes since everyting in this continent can kill you :curse:
We live in a very rural area and we found many red back sipders in our house , and we even found one underneath my daughters crib.
Knowing they are not as dangerous as funnel we spiders I wasn't that intimidated ..... until yesterday!!
So , we decided to go to Australian Reptile Park and we watched some live shows of people handling snakes,crocodiles spiders etc.. After the show we are talking to the spider handler we were talking about how to avoid , what to do and stuff like that. Then he mentioned that " If you are allergic to bee stings , you will have half of the time to rush to hospital compared to normal people "
:shocked3::shocked3: He also showed us how to catch a funnel web spider , how to use compression band to minimise the effects of the bite
It is summer here and obviously spider season , the closest hospital is 40minutes away ,if my boss is around he takes me with his chopper it will probably take 15 minutes. I was kind of relieved after being here 4 years and not bitten by anything serious but my false sense of security is gone.
I love it here but I will be singing this song more often
[video=youtube;kdihHnaOQsk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdihHnaOQsk[/video]