Thursday, April 17, 2003
This is funny actually, I got stung by a bee while running at Macritchie today.
We ran in a big group, Yee Seng, Poh Yee, Shih Wee, Bang Lit, Jeannete and me. We ran the 8km route, made a U-turn at SICC and headed back to the carpark. It was already late and dark then, about 715pm, and I left the whole group behind cos I was trying to catch up with an angmoh guy who overtook me. Just as I was getting out of the jungle, out of nowhere, I felt a sudden sting behind my left arm. It was painful. Stiii-ng--ing man. I think I jumped. I felt like stopping cos it was throbbing and my arm felt heavyyyy. But I was almost reaching the endpoint and no way I'm going to let anybody catch up with me. Once back at the carpark's toilet I inspected the sting mark and it was obvious cos it had a little mark like as if i've been poked by a needle and a reddish halo around it. I didnt wanna go to the doc immediately cos I thought that it might go away, so I went to have dinner with them at Sakae Sushi @ Junction 8. Great company, Jeanette is Poh Yee's friend from CPD and it was the first time we met actually. And as usual, Poh Yee was the centre of attention cos she .. well she is a good "target". Made me forget a bit about the pain.
It was only while driving back home that I couldnt bear the throbbing. Saw a clinic that was still open at AMK so I turned in and went to see the doc to get it checked. He squeezed the sting out and showed it to me. Just a very small black needle-like thing, about 1/4 of an inch long. He then drew a diagram and explained "you see, there is a purple halo around the bite, it shows that the skin is dead cos the toxin has taken into effect, there will be an ulcer and the skin will fall off but there's nothing to worry about cos i'll be prescribing you antibiotics to contain it etc etc". And I got an MC. And Friday's a public holiday. Hee. Another first in my book... Stung by a bee.
We ran in a big group, Yee Seng, Poh Yee, Shih Wee, Bang Lit, Jeannete and me. We ran the 8km route, made a U-turn at SICC and headed back to the carpark. It was already late and dark then, about 715pm, and I left the whole group behind cos I was trying to catch up with an angmoh guy who overtook me. Just as I was getting out of the jungle, out of nowhere, I felt a sudden sting behind my left arm. It was painful. Stiii-ng--ing man. I think I jumped. I felt like stopping cos it was throbbing and my arm felt heavyyyy. But I was almost reaching the endpoint and no way I'm going to let anybody catch up with me. Once back at the carpark's toilet I inspected the sting mark and it was obvious cos it had a little mark like as if i've been poked by a needle and a reddish halo around it. I didnt wanna go to the doc immediately cos I thought that it might go away, so I went to have dinner with them at Sakae Sushi @ Junction 8. Great company, Jeanette is Poh Yee's friend from CPD and it was the first time we met actually. And as usual, Poh Yee was the centre of attention cos she .. well she is a good "target". Made me forget a bit about the pain.
It was only while driving back home that I couldnt bear the throbbing. Saw a clinic that was still open at AMK so I turned in and went to see the doc to get it checked. He squeezed the sting out and showed it to me. Just a very small black needle-like thing, about 1/4 of an inch long. He then drew a diagram and explained "you see, there is a purple halo around the bite, it shows that the skin is dead cos the toxin has taken into effect, there will be an ulcer and the skin will fall off but there's nothing to worry about cos i'll be prescribing you antibiotics to contain it etc etc". And I got an MC. And Friday's a public holiday. Hee. Another first in my book... Stung by a bee.
