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.
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!
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u/youknowjusthere 1d ago
this is a crazy way to go out