My leukemia's back.

[LittleLakePhil]

I had another mishap...

Got stung by a bee Wednesday afternoon...vomited, lost my vision, blinding headache, spasms, difficult to breathe  and then semi concious...got rushed to a Doctor...anaphylactic shock...adrenalin injection...then the surgery room filled up with firefighters ( normal here in France in case of emergency as they are trained for emergency situations with health ), as if that was not enough...four Doctors arrived from Vichy (some 40 minute drive away)...heart monitor attached, legs in the air...vein with the canula closed down...off in ambulance to Hospital in Vichy, siren blaring...more medication pumped into me through another canula...lovely rash all over my body...

I came home at my insistence near to midnight...my Husband arrived and I really wanted to get home, hot alcohol compress on my arm, I now have an adrenaline epipen and anti histamine tablets for the next six days...my left arm is huge still but at least I am alive....

I owe my life to all of those wonderful people who were there for me...

I resolve never to keep bees here...

I am resting up as I feel as though I have been run over by a steamroller...

Wow....you don't mess around do you?
Nothing I can add to that....but feel better.

 

[Suzie]

I'm just an unintentional attention seeker...!

Scared the life out of my Husband...he even had to cook his own dinner at 1.00 am....

 

[sourland]

Suzie, Suzie, Suzie !

 

[Suzie]

Suzie, Suzie, Suzie !

You called Sour....

I am OK and just lucky to be alive..thanks to my Husband and the prompt action of the medics...

 

[Suzie]

I am off out in a few minutes...going to a restaurant...hope they don't give me food poisoning...now that would be just my luck!

See you all later...

 

[Bunnylady]

Oh, for Heaven's sake, Suzie! Just when I think it's safe for me to look away and try to get some of my own stuff dealt with, you gotta go dancing with the stingers!

Scary stuff, just hearing about it; really glad you are still here to tell the tale.

I've always tended to over-react to bee stings; the possibility of anaphylaxis is never far from my mind when I get stung. Wound up playing dodge ball with a nest of yellow jackets recently; I lost - twice. Quick treatment with my ever-handy bottle of ammonia knocked down the reaction, though I would never recommend messing about with that stuff to anyone who had ever had an anaphylactic reaction.

But wow, the lengths to which you must go just to get taken out to dinner, huh?

 

[lazy gardener]

Suzie! You've left me pretty much speechless. When it rains, it pours.

Rachel, better days ahead, for sure. Yep, teens can be total butt heads. And you're right, he needs to do MORE than just pay back the money. I'm sure you and your honey can think of an appropriate pennance. Hubby and I used to lay awake at night, thinking of creative discipline maneuvers to use with our errant teens.

Hubby and I are without kids tonight. Seems like they've been here more often than not this summer. With school starting next week, I hope the non stop babysitting is coming to a close for us.

I had an unexpected day off yesterday. Available time met up with available energy, resulting in a great day. Spent the day cleaning out the green house. Lots of bags of leaves, a compost barrel full of yellow jackets, and some impressive weeds that were 4' tall! Then, I broke up the clay subsoil with a pick axe, and removed 2 WB full of rocks, layered the clay on one side with grass clippings and leaves that I shredded with the lawnmower. Will do the same in the walking path, then on the right growing bed, line both beds on outside with tarp, layer in the growing media, (move it out of the middle, and add some soil, and compost, line both beds on the walking path side with 2 x 10's, then lay some wood chips in the middle. Will make that middle path wide enough for a chair so I can enjoy the winter in my little get away.

 

[N F C]

Suzie, so glad to hear you are going to be ok. Keep that epipen handy and take care of yourself.

Rachel, I get where you're coming from...sometimes you just get tired of fighting.

Not sure what's going on with me today. Been feeling blue missing people that seem so far away. My dad and sister, gone from this earth...my sons so far away physically and emotionally. Sometimes it seems like the people I care most about are so far away. This too shall pass, right?

Here's to better days.

 

[Suzie]

NFC...if we didn't care and love them so much we would not feel blue...a telephone call or surprise visit to family living far away would lift your spirits...they are in your heart and thoughts and that is wonderful...

Sending you much love from across the world...we are all just time away...

 

[N F C]

NFC...if we didn't care and love them so much we would not feel blue...a telephone call or surprise visit to family living far away would lift your spirits...they are in your heart and thoughts and that is wonderful...

Sending you much love from across the world...we are all just time away...

Thank you Suzie, thank you very much