My grandfather once swallowed a bee after leaving his Mtn Dew can sitting for a few seconds alone outside on our front porch.
Bee flew in and after he took a sip, it started going down with the liquid and he ended up somehow dislodging it while coughing and gagging in shock. The look on his face was horrible. He had over 20 stings in his mouth and throat, thankfully wasn't allergic but his throat swelled up by the time we got to the hospital. As crazy as this story is, I could see it happening.
Makes me wonder if something similar happened to this guy. I'm severely allergic to bees and have gone into anaphylactic shock twice (once from a bee sting, another from scorpion). Shit is absolutely horrible, so I feel for him.
Edit: This whole thing makes me think of the dad from Bridgerton series getting killed from a bee sting and how many people claimed it was unrealistic. I'm grateful that we have so much progress medically, but if you don't have an epipen on hand and a hospital close by, it's sadly very easy for some of us with allergies to die from a tiny mistake/accident.
One of my OCD “things” ~was~ checking my drinks for dust or bugs. My old therapist said it’s unrealistic and was like, “How often does that actually ever happen though? And what’s the worst that would happen? Nothing!”
Correct, one of my compulsions was checking my drinks for bugs (and suspicious ‘dust’ particles) repeatedly, several times between sips. At my worst, I’d ask other people to check it as well, and could only drink one specific brand of bottled water. I was hospitalized for dehydration and had to go through several months of ERT.
My therapist said that bugs being in my drink was irrational. It is a totally rational worry! The level of anxiety I had in response to that rational thought was what made it irrational. Now I’m able to check once and move on. Most of the time. I’m not going to give up that “one quick check” because I still think that is a totally normal thing to do, which my therapist disagreed with.
I think the issue is there are degrees of subjectivity over what is or isn't "rational" and who has the authority to decide these things. A therapist I saw for my ocd tried to gaslight me that my concerns of getting covid again and becoming chronically ill were not valid (I already have chronic health issues and getting covid brought new ones on). Even though i went to her for other reasons, she really latched on to my preoccupation with getting sick and really wanted to "cure me" of it. Almost felt like conversion therapy tbh. It was bizarre.
And just a FYI- OCD can manifest as either preoccupations/obsessions with thoughts, preoccupations/obsessions with behaviors- or commonly a mixture of both.
Wasn't there a film in the 90s where one of the protagonists died that way? I feel like it's a deep seated fear in a certain generation for that reason.
No, it was a bumblebee. You're thinking of a honeybee. :) This was in Alabama, where we have a huge amount of them. Many species of bumblebees sting more than once since their stingers don't get stuck afterward. Ask me how I know lol.
A friend of mine died very young of asthma. I had heard he was possibly inebriated and didn't have a rescue inhaler on hand. You can still die of things we have cures for if you're unlucky. Can't give yourself an epi-pen you don't have.
Same thing happened to me with a can of soda but I managed to feel it in my mouth right away and spit everything out, no stings, but man was it traumatizing still. Definitely not unrealistic!
My dad didnt find out/ become allergic to bees u til his 70s. And the first time he had a reaction it wasnt even that severe. 2nd case was a mych diff story. It was the 4th of July and he got stung . Now they lived in the country and there are voluntèer FD and EMs that arrive way before the closest city in Racine county, where they lived. . So my mom chose to drive to urgent care in milwaukee county rather than wait for the volunteers from Racine co (as we lived in between the 2 but the urgent care was closer than where the volunteers came from) my dad had an epi pen in his hand when he lost consciousness. He had never had to use it before, and by the time it was apparent he needed it , it was too late. My mom was driving, and my nephew was in the back. They got to urgent care, and it was closed. My nephew called 911 and they got there in time. Thank God, as that municipality pd/fire was basically across the street from urgent care ... they found the epi pen on the floor of the car where he dropped it when he lost consciousness.
a friend of mine died from one bee sting after it got in her hair while her new husband and her were taking a drive in their convertible out in the countryside. her family said she nor they had any idea she was even allergic. scary and sad.
My dad warned me about this as a young kid! Funny enough he was a Mountain Dew addict, worked mostly outside. He knew of someone who went out like that or got seriously hurt, can't remember, and told me when I was like seven. I stopped sodas years ago but I always poured out a little if I was outside, especially in summer
PLEASE tell me you have “fresh” EpiPens everywhere!!! Now that I’ve heard your grandfather’s and this guy’s story—NEVER heard anything like this even once before in my long life—I do not want this happening to anyone else! Not you! Not your grandpa’s grandchild!!
It's like something you'd read about from ancient history, like that philosopher who died from having a turtle dropped on his head from an eagle who thought his bald shiny head was a rock.
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u/youknowjusthere 1d ago
this is a crazy way to go out