Don't Bite Me Patch

My mother told me that bumble bees didn't sting...which is why I was never careful avoiding them when I was younger.  One day, I was playing in the yard and I must have been bothering a bumble bee because it flew at me and I ran.  Here is where I should also say I was wearing a bathing suit top.  The bumble bee stung me in the side, but I started to swell so quickly that it got stuck and didn't fall off.  So I ran into the house screaming like a maniac because it hurt SO BAD only to have my mother tell me that I had to get the bee out myself since she is allergic to bees.  Imagine the picture: a 12 year old girl with her side swollen twice normal size, trying to get a still alive bee out of her with a large pair of tweezers.  It was awful.  And the swelling took about 2 weeks to go down.

Victoria Arya, Barboursville, VA