Ugh. Stung three times on my face yesterday.
Was picking up kindling in the woods. The vernal pool was dry enough to walk on, so I pulled branches out the pond, too.
Was walking through the woods with branches from the pond and I noticed a stinging sensation on my chin below the left side of my lower lip. Brushed it away. Got me two more times on the left jowl. May have walked over a yellowjacket nest in the woods.
Kept trimming brush by the driveway for trash collection next week. Kept feeling my jaw and cheek. Swelled up enough after 20 minutes that I thought I should take an antihistamine.
Went to the bathroom and pulled out the box with assorted medicines. Started looking at cold, flu, and allergy boxes for ingredients. Cough suppressant. Fever reducer. Nasal decongestant. Don't we have an antihistamanine?
Ah. Allegra Allergy sample pack. Score! Antihistamine. Took a pill. It's past, well past, expiry date.
Went downstairs to have a salad for lunch. Nan yells down from working upstairs to see if I want to go for our lunchtime walk.
Nope. Not with my face swollen like this.
Have a salad, yogurt, and fruit.
My face is o.k. enough that I think we can go for a walk. Nan doesn't notice.
Tell her later in the afternoon. She wondered what I was doing making all the noise in the bathroom. I usually say if I'm going to clean the bathrooms. Also though it strange that I didn't want to go for a walk on a nice day.
Still swollen today. Not Dizzie Gillespie playing the trumpet puffy, but definitely pretty swollen.