Here’s an article I wish I wasn’t writing. As I was walking from our separate garage to the gate last evening about 5 p.m., I was stung at least three times by yellowjackets (wasps). I had almost made it in the gate when I heard a horrific buzzing and swarming all around me. I took off in the opposite direction, hoping to avoid them, since I had already been stung the day before on my head. Unfortunately, although I was stung only once on that trip away from the gate, I had dropped my glasses and had to go back, and was stung two more times.

I knew these weren’t bees because the areas that were stung instantly hurt worse than any vaccine and immediately started burning. Bee stings don’t do that. They swelled up instantly, not like a mosquito bite bump but to about three inches by three in

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