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Old 08-03-2015, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post
My neighbors had bees when I was a kid. They said no worries about the bees. One day I was walking by (having done it many times previously) and they attacked me. I ran to the neighbors house. My buddies mom pulled stingers out of my head with tweezers. I have always given bees a wide berth since then.
I'm guessing the retained stingers are worse. Not familiar with that, I don't think anyway. I had some nasty boils as a kid, who knows.

I'm a bit chagrined at how ignorant I was about first aid for this. My client gave me some calamine lotion. Whether or not it offered relief I couldn't tell you. No control experiment was run. Was still plenty uncomfortable.
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