Beekeeper death in Utah

[tbonekel]

Riv, with what you have been through, you can go off the deep end any time you want.

[Intheswamp]

not going to apologize for what i said here. my opinion,  how insensitive and flys in the face of anyone truly allergic to stinging insects, and lives to tell about it.  no fluff here. 

hope i didn't kill this thread, just being honest.  this story and loss of life serves as a reminder to all of as to what can happen. 

aw riverbee went off the deep end.......dang right i did.....hope someone carries an epi pen or two cuz of my going off the deep end. 

I'm not sure exactly what tbonekel is referring to regarding what you went through (I know you went through sting therapy), and I'm a little "slow", but for the life of me I can't see anything in your post to apologize about...just facts and experiences being shared. 

I've got two granddaughters 3 and 7 years old who come to the house fairly often.  The 7 year old had asthma when she was younger and her mother still keeps an inhaler around "in case".  I had an adult epi-pen when I first started with bees...more for someone else than myself.  Getting comfortable and complacent with the bees I let the pen expire and the prescription. 

This tragedy and reinforcing statements from folks like yourself are prompting me to get a prescription for another pen, but I have a question.  Would I be better off to get a child pen or an adult pen.  Or two child's pens???  I'm concerned about the grandkids, especially with the knowledge of the previous(?) issue the 7yo had with asthma.  I also realize that if an allergic adult gets stung they can quickly be in a serious situation, too.  riverbee, since you're apparently knowledgeable about allergies and epi-pens do you think I could cover adults and children by having two child's pens?  Using a single pen on a child wild doubling up on an adult?  Hypothetically, of course.  Thankfully, the only person to get stung around here since I got my first little nuc of bees in the winter of 2011 has been me.  Thanks for the epi-pen encouragement, riverbee.

Ed

[riverbee]

"Riv, with what you have been through, you can go off the deep end any time you want."

thanks tbone, guess i am a little sensitive to this issue, i think it's called fear, my own.

ed, thanks.  i suffered anaphylactic and systemic reactions, so turns out i am allergic to all stinging insects.  i am doing the injection therapy, probably will for life, and receive 3 injections each visit, now every 6 weeks.  i am on a maintenance dose. i have a thread here on it, so that's what tbone was referring to.  it's been a long haul.

having said that, i am an advocate and pester everyone to carry an epi-pen.  if you have grandchildren, by all means get them an eppy.  some folks with severe asthma also carry them.  i am not a doctor ed, so as far as a child's pen vs an adult pen, these are different doses, so i would get the appropriate prescription as prescribed by your physician.  you can get them for free right now for the entire year of 2014, the thread is here:

EPI PEN Zero Dollar Co-Pay Offer

[Gypsi]

I need to fill the epi prescription I got for my helper when I took him to the clinic. He is not allergic, but no telling if anyone else is.

And part of why I want to go down to 2 hives is a family with young children that have moved in about half a block away. I also did a split to avoid a swarm in one hive, and didn't feed the hot hive to discourage excess population and swarming til I could get it requeened.

As I told my friend in Pantego this past week, basically, everything I do is somewhat dangerous. You go in the house now.