Bee Sting

On Thursday evening yet again Ethan had the talent of find and disturbing a yellow jacket nest. He did this last year and ending up with 17 stings. This year was much better but about as traumatic. He was over incidental at the same neighbors house playing in there sand box when I heard him start to scream. There was a nest inside one of the outdoor trucks they had for the sand box and when he started pushing it around they got a wee bit upset. He got stung 3 times on the top portion of his ear. For most kids this would not be a huge deal but with Ethan it turns out it a little bit of a problem. When ever he gets stung he has what they call a local allergy reaction to the wasp venom. This causes what ever area is stung to swell quite noticeably. After two days of the insane swelling and some advice form a doctor in the ward we took him to the doctor just to make sure he wasn't getting an infection. For anyone out there who doesn't know evidently bee and wasp sting can get infected and if they do it can be quite serious. Now as far as the allergy reaction thing goes it's most likely going to get worse each time he is stung. My sister has a similar problem and got stung on the neck resulting in some time spent in the hospital so that they could help her breath since her neck swelled up. So we'll just have to be a little more careful from now on and hope we don't get stung anywhere that swelling will be an issue.