Well, I finally bent and got an account here. Good day for it too, I need to rant. Only I could get dragged to the ER for multiple bee stings before 7 in the morning on a Monday.
I'd decided to collect the aluminum cans from the various places in the house (cardboard box in my room, paper bags in the kitchen) but I needed a empty trash container for the bag. I remembered there was one in the backyard so I went to get it.
So I take the bin and I'm trying to turn it over to empty the stuff in it out. Hard to do in a wrist brace but not impossible. Then suddenly I feel a sharp pain in my hand. I glance down to see a yellow jacket on my hand, then suddenly feel a sharp pain to my face next to my right eye. That was when I started batting at my face and screaming knocking my glasses off. Not to mention dropping the bin and running around the side of the house and inside.
So now I'm sans glasses, hand and face swelling from a localized allergic reaction. My middle knuckle was so swollen I couldn't bend my finger. Mom had to drive me the the ER (this was around 6:15 in the morning). By the time we got there, signed in, and in a room it was about 7:05. I get the shots, they dose me with vicadin and send me home. That was around 9:00. Not how I pictured my morning going.
So we get home and now we have issue. I don't have my glasses and I can only see a foot, maybe a foot and a half if I strain my eyes, without my glasses. That's not to mention the prisms ground into my lenses. I needed to get my glasses. I put of an old spare pair I had that were missing a missing a nose piece, had a wad of glue holding the bridge together, and the prescription off by a bit. I spent all the rest of the morning and until around 3:00 in the afternoon figuring out ways to move the damn bin and empty it out (I couldn't see my glasses in the vicinity so I though they'd fallen into the bin) without getting stung again. In the end my best tool was a hand sickle duck taped to the end of a pole. The chunks of hive I cut off with the sickle I dumped in water using a soup spoon on the end of another branch. It gave me GREAT satisfaction to drown their young. And yes, I am petty and vindictive when I'm in pain.
I ended up finding them 5 feet from my search area to my back left. Apparently I'd hit at my face a lot harder then I though. I used the hand sickle tool and managed to hook them. They were about a foot from another hive in the ground. As far as I'm concerned the bloody insects can... well I can't say in mixed company... until the pain in my hand and face go away. I'll get rid of them later.
Day just got better from there (sarcasm). My hand and face hurt, the bloody cats kept jumping on the back of my chair and trying to get in my lap pushing against my face and hand in the process and one of them (Princess Houdini Squall, Princess for short) knocked a half full pot of coffee I had all over the floor. *sighs* Ok, so maybe it wasn't hell, but it was close to purgatory. It's now 1:18 in the morning and I'm going to wrap this up. I have things to do tomorrow(today?). I'll do an introduction to myself at another time.
Signing out.
Night,
Yoru Hana