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Supersized yellowjacket nests are a scary concept, especially for those of us who are allergic. I keep saying I don't want to find out how effective the allergy shots have been.
ps - you're never too old for an adult-onset allergy. I had no reason to suspect I was allergic to yellowjackets, yet the last time I was stung - on a little toe - sent me into anaphylaxis.
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by Thestral on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 12:01:23 PM PDT
This is great! I have not seen this before! Who gets credit?
by The Grace Kelly on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 12:28:43 PM PDT
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posted a link to it in a commentin Monday's Cheers and Jeers: Virgin Edition by Condoleaser.
by Thestral on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 12:35:44 PM PDT
"fashionably acceptable" amount of hair "down there" has decreased proportionally over the decades? Call me old-fahioned, but I miss the seventies.
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by Bulldawg on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 12:40:14 PM PDT
Yet another reason why my husband and I have decided that marital fidelity is the way to go. "Hey Nineteen" would need a line about pubic preferences if it was written today.
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by Louise on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 02:29:34 PM PDT
that some would consider "au naturel" to be LIKE brushing their teeth?
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by grndrush on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 01:35:13 AM PDT
not a pre-teen. The whole totally shaved thing kinda creeps me out.
by Bulldawg on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 06:30:52 AM PDT
a bit strange, not to mention highly uncomfortable for the wearer. However, a nice trim, for some, makes it easier to creep IN...
I'm reminded of something I read a good while back. W/O getting overly explicit, a certain style of trim was suggested, followed by words I'll never forget: "Remember, she wants to blow you - not floss." LMFAO.
by grndrush on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 11:41:46 AM PDT
by Bulldawg on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 01:13:59 PM PDT
never had an allergy before...but this time, I was bit on the lip and it blew up like a balloon...it didn't even hurt, but it looked like something out a Ripley's...nothing that some Benadryl didn't fix in about three days...
the adult onset was strange though
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by justmy2 on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 03:12:35 PM PDT
I have this problem now. Before in my lifetime, any bee sting was a 15-minute dammit-owie and then forgotten.
But I got stung FIVE times by yellow jackets in my garden over the course of the summer, up to and including September 9th, 2001. (Went into anaphylaxic shock that time, so was still recovering on the morning of 9/11/01.) Each bee sting was cumulatively more toxic to me, evidently.
Now I've been warned to carry an Epi-Pen with me at all times, in case of another sting. I have FOUR-MINUTES, max, I've been advised, to use that Epi and call 911. Damn inconvenient allergy to have on this planet.
The way we control the yellow-jacket population is by putting out rancid meat (they love it) in traps early in the Spring, late March, early April, and continuing. The idea is to catch the queens coming out of Winter hibernation to find a new nesting site. Catch the queens in the traps, no nests built near you. Has worked well the past two summers. Very few yellers in the yard, easily caught by baited traps. (Btw, late-summer yeller-jackets are drawn more to sweet, rancid fruit, because they need the sugar. They've needed protein to hatch and grow during the late Spring/early Summer months.) Varmits.
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by sockpuppet on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 04:40:28 PM PDT
Your mileage may vary & it may depend on whether you've got insurance, etc.
But, after my episode they issued me an epipen, and the allergist told me that once you've gone into anaphylactic shock from a sting, you've got a 95% chance of doing it again if you get stung, and if you do the shots (long enough?) it drops to something like a 5% chance.... Those odds sounded pretty good to me, so I played pincushion.
When they first started me on the "mixed vespids" (assorted wasps) shot, at the lowest dose (WITH me taking antihistamines every day), that arm would blow up by the next day as if I'd discovered some really funky super-bicep exercise. Now (ok, 5 years later?) at the highest dose (equivalent to several stings at once) I get a maybe a 1-2"dia reddened zone for a few hours that I can resist scratcing..
by Thestral on Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 05:46:35 PM PDT
Saving your comment to consult with my physicians. Thanks!
by sockpuppet on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 08:13:32 AM PDT
by Thestral on Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 08:58:27 AM PDT
wide narrow
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