Ouch. From our new life in Costa Rica

[LakeArenal]

Mr Lake, stung by a wasp.
Or vespa as they say.

[COLGATE4]

1. Actually they call it "avispa". Vespa is Italian.

[LakeArenal]

6. Thanks. Taking lessons. Not to wasps yet.

[blm]

2. I got a wasp sting in SC

Hurt like a muddahfugger

[Ohiogal]

3. Those things HURT!

Hope he’s okay!

[SWBTATTReg]

4. OUCH!! Good grief...I am glad you didn't show the wasp that stung him...I would run from the...

room if you did show the wasp here on DU (ha ha!). Hopefully the swelling will go down soon, and that HE won't have any later side effects. Wow...

[LakeArenal]

5. He's a man. M A N...

All he says is it’s “throbby”.

The pic is actually 24 hours later. It was worse. 🥴

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I did say 'stung him' in my headliner. Where are you getting 'He's a man. M A N' from?

Did you misread?

[LakeArenal]

8. I'm sorry. That's a line from a Spencer Davis song. P

What I meant is he refused to say it hurts.
He such a man.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Ha ha he...I totally understand, and didn't get the drift on the song tag. My bad, so am sorry ...

too. I got to say thanks for the OUCH post (and his ack no pain, no gain, eh?).

My grandmother did have a thing when we as kids got stung by those red wasps in the country one sees (in the US, Ozarks), she would make a paste w/ baking soda and put onto the sting site. It would help surprisingly enough. Of course ice packs do the job too.

Take care, both of you!

[LakeArenal]

10. I heard once to put Dawn dish soap on a sting

I have tried it and found it worked. Sometimes. Maybe it depends on the person or the sting.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Hmmm...thanks for the tip! I will remember this. Dawn is one of my favorite detergents ...

that I get all of the time, it's good for cleaning greasy pans, etc. (as you know), and now stings! Take care.

[CanonRay]

12. I got five on one hand

Reached into a wood pile to get a tennis ball. Yikes. My hand looked like a beach ball

[Brother Buzz]

13. My girl calls them Jalapeño sky raisins.

[LakeArenal]

14. Delicious in salads I hear.

At least that’s what the waiter told me!

[herding cats]

16. That was my girl with bees.

She'd hear one buzzing away and take off on a mission to snack it up. I don't know how she was never stung.

[csziggy]

15. My Mom got a wasp sting like that once

Dad said the first thing she did was divorce him - she took her wedding ring off for the first time since they got married, about forty years before. Good thing, since her hand was so swollen, they probably would have had to cut the ring off to save her finger.

When she died, the ring was almost worn through. 67 years of wearing a ring will do that.

[herding cats]

17. After the throbbing... the itch sets in.

Which is always worse to me. I can sleep through the painful part, but the darn itch wakes me up over and over again.