[Magdalen] Hornets

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Prayers continue for Ryan which I forgot to include in previous post.  
Lynn

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On Jul 31, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

Just got off the phone with my daughter. The camp called again this morning and said Ryan is continuing to break out with welts, and the Urgent Care clinic said they've done all they can do--the next step is the ER. So she's gone to get him, after consulting their pediatrician, who said there's no need for the ER, as long as he's not having trouble breathing. So they'll bring him home to spend the night, and hopefully I'll be able to take him back to camp in the morning to spend the last two days.
I guess this means that if he gets stung again, he may very well wind up in the ER...


> On Jul 31, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hornet memories of my oldest  daughter's hornet sting scenario ... Stood on in-ground nest while we were picking wild grapes in the woods at the end of our street and they literally crawled up her long tube socks and got stuck so they began to sting through socks when they couldn't fly away... I rolled the socks down and off, leaving the hornets inside the roll, grabbed 6 year old Kate and ran through the woods home. Benadryl and cool wet towels and thankfully no averse results. 
> Lynn
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> On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My little brother Lawrence, when he was 3 or 4, accidentally rode his
> tricycle through a hornets' nest that had fallen from a tree onto the
> sidewalk. He didn't know what it was. Of course the hornets were not happy
> in the first place at having their home precipitously dropped multiple
> stories onto the ground, and then at having a bulldozer being driven
> through it by a giant (their perspective), so you can imagine the end
> result. He recalls the neighbor, in front of whose house this happened,
> coming out with a broom to chase off the hornets, and my mother tearing
> down the hill shrieking, He also recalls it as the only time he ever saw
> Mom run. He was one miserable little kid for a few days.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 7/30/2016 10:51:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> But I  can't imagine getting stung five  times...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>> 
>> Paper wasps - there are several species in Eastern North America -  have
>> been a problem both at my home in Wisconsin and here in  Pennsylvania.
>> They are generally docile unless their nests, which can become  enormous,
>> are threatened.
>> 
>> On one occasion myself and the four Miniature Schnauzers disturbed
>> one of their nests, and we were all stung multiple times.  My  favorite
>> dog (Comet) was stung about 15 times and began to howl pitifully.
>> The other dogs had fewer stings.   I could do nothing for her  because
>> I had more than 20 stings.  I had healing pityriasis rosea and  immediately
>> all those spots swelled up.  Somehow the dogs and I got back to  the
>> house where my wife gave the dogs a cool shower.  I was  concerned
>> enough that I went to the local hospital ER after taking a Benedryl.
>> 
>> Luckily, despite the severity of the stings I and the dogs did not  have
>> systemic symptoms.
>> 
>> It was not a fun experience.  I give their paper nests wide  berth.
>> 
>> 
>> David S.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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