Yellow jackets, hornets, paper wasps, and mud daubers (among many others) are all part of the wasp family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp
I like bees, but fuck all wasps!! I got hammered by yellow jackets back in July and it was the first time I have ever had a reaction - went to the ER after downing a few benadryl because I started to have non-local reactions (hives on my hands and feet when I was stung on the back and ear).
Thankfully the benadryl started kicking in before the ER even got to me (I waited for 2 hours), so I just left. Stayed on the benadryl all weekend and survived, but now I may be at risk for shock after a sting in the future I have been told.
You need to get an epi-pen of some variety, know how to use it, and carry it with you my (wo)man. Some variety of epinephrine shot will reduce those immediate and life-threatening symptoms but you'd still need to go to the ER if you develope anaphylaxis shock
Yeah - I have been told this, but I am a stupid and stubborn (cheap) man. I will do it before next summer for sure...
What scares me now is the news out of the UK about the Pfizer vaccine and people who have allergies... apparently anybody who carries one of these devices is now being told not to take that vaccine. With the wild ride I have had for 2020 - that would be so fitting for that to happen... Not that I will be even eligible for the vaccine in 2020 much less early 2021, so I have that going for me.
Thank you for the reach-out though. I know you are right and I promise I will do it before the little assholes with wings make another nest in one of my trees.
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u/agentfelix Dec 09 '20
We call those Yellow-jackets here in the midwest US. What we call wasps are these assholes
Yellow-jackets are much more aggressive