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Re: Ever had an allergic Reaction?
When I was 16 I was at my best friends house. She lived in Wylie in the sticks and we lived in Garl... about 12 min away. Well we had gone swimming she had one of those huge above ground pools. We had forgotten to get towels so I ran back in the house and as I was standing there fixing to get back in the pool I noticed my leg started to itch.. But I scratched it once without looking and stood there and continued to talk to her... Looked down about 2 min later and I was literally covered on both legs with fire ants. I jumped in the pool thinking it would get them off of me. WRONG!!! It just made them go up higher onto my leg... So finally me and her got them all off.. but by then both of my feet were the size of cantelopes.
I called my dad and asked him to meet me and take me to the ER.. He couldnt find my friends house if someone paid him to it was so far out in the country. So he drove to the nearest town to her and met me there.. by the time he got there my face was doing as Rhonda described hers.. and my entire legs were so swollen I couldnt walk. He called 911 from the gas station we met at and they came and said if it had been more than 5 more min I would have died...
On one leg they counted over 200 fire ant bites and quit counting there! I had to carry around injection meds for years after that.. I guess I have gotten past it however as last year I got bit by a few and I am still here! LOL
Was indeed the scariest thing I had ever been through!
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