Got my butt kicked and QUICK TOO

[Micanopy]

I watched a show about the Epi Pen. It is epinephrine in an auto injectable pen delivery device. The “medicine” works to lessen your body’s reaction to the poison. The poison doesn’t kill you, your body’s response kills you. My kid brother has had some sort of injectable since the 70”s, because he is allergic to bees, especially honeybees.

When my parents purchased his things they were fairly cheap. Then one of the two makers stopped production, and the other company- Mylan Pharmaceutical decided to begin gouging. The price skyrocketed and this has caused many people to choose life without the safety a pen provides. Talking about kids here folks. The owner of the company was interviewed and basically is a heartless scoundrel. Didn’t care one bit about the lives of children, rather was only concerned with what their parents would give him. Scumbags giving Big Pharma a bad name. Just horrible that they are gouging parents wanting to provide life saving devices to their kids.

My brother has to keep his injectables, and tablets, within reach at all times. His hand swelled up like a rubber glove being inflated. Amazing to see his body reacting that way. You will likely need to keep a pen at home and with you when out and about.

The insurance company does not wish to pay this horribly greedy man, so you will need to be persistent. I think buying it outright is like $700 or so for what you will need to have on hand. I highly recommend that you get the pens anyways- which is exactly why the man has jacked up his prices. It can rapidly shut down your over reaction to bee stings and give you the time needed to get help.

Fireants can also instill the reaction. Bees are different than wasps and yellow jackets are wasps. They eat meat and sugar and deliver a pulsating sting that shoots up your arm. The worse sting I ever got was from a small ground dwelling bumble bee. Hurt worse than hornets, wasps, and yes yellow jackets, too. There was a huge yellow jacket in Virginia. This thing lives in holes and looks like a yellow jacket that is about three inches long. I doused one with gasoline, and he came out of his hole, looked at me and flew off. Amazing.

Good luck.

[Ketchn]

We went to get it (EPI Pen) at Wal Mart yesterday and it was $689.00. Yikes, needless to say we told them they could keep it. If I can get insurance approval it will cost $29.00 from Express Scripts mailed to me. $660 difference sheesh!

a bottle of benadryl is fairly inexpensive for those that aint got deep pockets

[lazycat]

Get a prescription for the "generic epinephrine auto-injector". Most insurance will not pay for the brand name EpiPen but will pay for the much less expensive generic.

[DockShootinJack]

[QUOTE=Ketchn;4165798]here we have yellow jackets that like Dr. Pepper , ever seen someone drink a yella jacket before ?
they will light up your day in that mode for sure ....
not me ,but I seen it done a few times...
sure makes folks move really fast when they drink one, typically dance like wild natives doing a rain dance
note this : it is only funny if you ain't the one drinking them[/QUOT
Drank one when I was a teenager. Sure enough a rude awakening.

The little Bulldog got into some under the deck. Came out doing a Tasmanian devil impression. Spinning in circles through the yard. I finally caught him and knocked them off of him.
For the longest time if something touched his side he would take off in a dead run. They made a believer out of him too

[spartannation]

It's crazy how fast they can build a ground nest. I'm siding a house and last week my helper got nailed in the cheek by a yellow jacket. Gas down the hole took care of that nest which was on the back side of the house. Yesterday I was working on the front side and almost stumbled into another nest of the nasty buggers. Funny thing is, I was working in the same area on the front on Friday and they weren't there, Monday morning there were hundreds of them. Heading there before daylight to give them a 89 octane shower.

[DockShootinJack]

Persistent little buggers for sure. I gues they fly the dirt away. You don't see any evidence that they have build anything

[SuperDave336]

I hate those suckers. Have a nest now on side of house in old tree stump area that needs taking care of. Last year had a couple down the side of our driveway and something dug them up and ate the nest one night? Skunk, raccoon

[DockShootinJack]

I hate those suckers. Have a nest now on side of house in old tree stump area that needs taking care of. Last year had a couple down the side of our driveway and something dug them up and ate the nest one night? Skunk, raccoon

Bears will eat them also

[spartannation]

So I went to the job site before daylight today. Took a rake, flashlight and a gallon of stale gas. What could go wrong? The plan was to use the rake to pull back the wood mulch so I could find the entrance. Then, simply pour the gas down the hole and bam, no more yellow jackets.

I had marked the general area with a long 1x2 yesterday so I would know where to start. I was holding the flashlight in my mouth while I gingerly pulled back the mulch. I had a 2' circle raked back and didn't see any hole so I moved in for a closer look. Again, what could go wrong. The next swipe with the rake uncovered a mound of yellow jackets the size of a saucer and probably an inch thick. They hadn't built their tunnel yet and were piled up to stay warm, I think. They must have known death was right around the corner because they started to "come to the light". And I mean fast! The manly exclamation of surprise (not a scream like a little girl) caused the flashlight to fall out of my mouth and shining in the wrong direction. I didn't dare run, it was dark, dark, dark, and I had ladders, patio furniture and numerous bushes and trees around me and couldn't see a thing. Some how with all my whooping, dancing, flailing and swatting I didn't get stung. When things settled down I was able to retrieve my flashlight and hit the mound with bee killer. Man, what a way to start the work day.

[SuperDave336]

“What could go wrong?“ is the first thing said before every winning America’s Funniest Home Video. You should have videotaped that for us....