Author:
Thomas Eddy (so you know look)
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Date Posted: Monday, August 25, 2025, 08:07: am
To Jungle Jim; I married a woman from rural Texas with a son and a daughter, and I had custody of my two sons from a previous marriage. I had taken the kids fishing, my new wife didn't want to go. My step daughter, who was, I think,thirteen, and my sons who were thirteen and ten, made up the fishing party. We had stopped and were having sandwiches and cokes for lunch when my son who was eleven, not ten climbed up into this willow tree, that was growing beside the creek to check out this large thing about the size of a basketball. He was out of my sight, and when I heard him screaming, I ran to see what was going on. He had climbed up to check out a "bald hornet" nest and they had attacked. The bald hornet makes these round paper nests and they are highly protective of them. Their stings are the most painful of all the wasp,yellow jacket, hornet stinging critters, in my opinion. Also they attack in a swarm. He was froze and was getting stung when I ran to his aid, climbing the tree and carrying him to the ground and away from the tree. I had some painful stings but my son had at least eighteen or twenty and some of them were through his shirt and pants. I was ready to load up and head for town to the doctor when my stepdaughter took control. She said I can stop the pain if you will let me and will help me. She said strip him down so I can see where he was stung. She mixed water from the creek and dirt and made mud patches that she patted on each of the stings. Each of the patches were three or four inches across and an inch thick. I took his shirt off and she put patches on his face and chest and back. She said he's stung on the legs too, get his pants off. He wasn't wearing any underwear and I would have had to remove them if he had because he had some stings on his butt abd three on the front of him but think goodness none of them were on his privates. She didn't hesitate to look him over, and to touch him as needed to put the patches of mud on him. All of my stings were above the waist but I have no doubt she would have had my pants off if she had of thought I had a sting that needed some mud on it. I learned at least two things that day. My son is redheaded and with in a half hour the pain was gone and you could hardly tell that he had been stung, and also girls as well as women are supposed to do the doctoring if it needs to be done. My wife was proud of her and said if she had been along she and her daughter would have been doctoring him. My wife did get him in the shower and washed the mud off and msde sure the stings had all gone down. Her daughter was there and my son didn;t complain. If these two stings had been over a little bit you could have had some real fun, she told her daughter. It's normal like it was in the old days to some of the people still.
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