Serendipity?

[cwilk]

I titled this post because we were just discussing insect bites. I was fatigued this morning and couldn't manage to get out. I did make it out at 5pm and hunted until I was stung by an insect, probably a bee but I didn't see anything but its shadow. Got me right near my right eye which became swollen very quickly. I have never reacted like this before. The whole side of my face was aching too. I decided I had better get home fast and along the way I held a frozen bottle of water on the sting. About 10 miles from home I spotted a cop on the side of the road. I noted my speed which was OK and kept going and I also noted he pulled out to follow me. When he gets up on me he lights me up and I pull over. He approached my car and asked for my license. He then asks if I have any idea why he pulled me over. I replied I didn't have a clue and that my speed was below the posted limit and my seat belt was on. He told me he saw me talking on a cell phone. I told him I didn't have a phone in the truck and that I was applying ice to a bee sting. He looked at the side of my face and after he stopped laughing he told me I better get home and take a benadryl. Stupid me, I had some in my field kit. I popped one. That stuff works wonders! By the time I got home my eye was opening up. Feel fine now.

I hate being behind a driver talking on the phone so I'm glad the local cops are doing something about it.

Got 108 clad coins, a batting cage token, .223 shell, a silver plated Hershey's Kiss, three junk fobs, and three buttons. Batteries in my camera are dead.

Chris

 

[PennyFinder]

Rubbing a crushed Asprin (A.S.A.) directly on the sting will kill the pain and swallowing an antihistamine will pretty much make it all go away. The best remedy for children.

PennyFinder

 

[lazyaussie]

WOW Chris you have such exciting hunts cops, drugs & getting attacked by unfriendly insects the most exciting thing that happens to me is to find a coin or ring & i"d like it to stay that way.
great finds by the way & hope ya feel better soon

 

[cwilk]

Lately I think I have a sticker on my truck that reads please pull me over. I hadn't been pulled over since 1996 and now three times in 6 months. Luckily only one ticket.

I hunt a lot of places that are loaded with clover and if it's not too hot or too wet there are always loads of bees doing their thing. As I detect I often think to myself why are these little guys so passive. I've disturbed thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of bees and never once been stung.....until yesterday. Feeling fine. Did not sleep well for some reason and benadryl is supposed to make you drowsy.

Since my incident in the park last year my low key approach to detecting isn't going perfectly. Thanks for pointing that out.

Been a long tine since I've seen a big pile of Aussie loot (excluding that fab 22k ring!) You getting out?

Chris

 

[DJR]

Chris

You need to be real careful from here on out with anything that stings! Take it seriously. I never used to be allergic to stings till I moved to Florida and started getting stung by the wasp and hornets down here. I am allergic to them now and have Benadryl in all of my vehicles (work, personal, home, office) I am supposed to carry a sting kit with me but they need replacing every month. I have found that the Benadryl helps but you must take it as soon as you can after being stung. I have been told that all it will take is one sting and I may go into "A-shock" so I am taking chances and have learned to watch out for bees nests and am much more cautious. I have to be I am a biologist and I have to be where they are!

Be careful my man!

Don

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I am a nut when it comes to plants. When you get a sting, rub the crushed leaves of burdock on it. When I was a scout leader, one of my boys had a strong allergy reaction to bee stings. The juice in burdock does wonders. He said the stinging goes away almost immediately. They look like rhubarb leaves with the round burs that get stuck in dog's fur. the stock is good eating if you peel the green rind off. Roots are good too.

 

[lazyaussie]

i haven't been out lately as i had a case of the pig flu it knocked me out for three days uke: then i had four weeks worth of ear/head ache i just got over it last week.
as for the piles of loot some other hungry detectorist is getting it i went hunting with my son last weekend & hit 6 tot lots in two hours & the pile i got was 2 coins for 15c 4 bits of tin foil & a pull tab & my son found a 10 coin 6 months ago this was a $40 trip at least with the usual pile of junk you guys loved to see so i"m going to change my style of hunting & do grass for a wile & hope fully find enough $$ for a new detector.
that's all for me
lazyaussie

 

[cwilk]

Hope your health is good. That swine flu was big news over here for a spell. It hasn't been front page news for some time where I live.

I know a lot of detectorists are very fond of meeting other treasure hunters in the field but I am not fond when I see one at my favorites sites. I guess around here I AM that "hungry detectorist!"

Hoping you make it out with great success in the near future, mate.

Chris

 

[Uncle Willy]

Them bees can do some serious damage. Good you had the benadryl. When I was a kid my aunt was driving down the highway and one flew in the window and stung her on the face and she plowed her near-new Cadillac into a concrete bridge and totalled it.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I had some kind of bug last February that knocked me on my butt and put me in bed for a week. Hope you're over it with no effects.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah that anaphylaxis shock can put you away in a heart beat. Lot of folks don't know they are allergic until it's too late. Spider bites will do the same thing or any venomous insect.

Bill.