My Ride Today

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My ride today, hmmm! Brought to a premature end about an hour from home by an insect. I
got stung on the lip by a flying stinging insect, I felt it brush my lip then realized I’d been stung. Ten minutes later I was stopped at the roadside and had to get a passing cyclist to phone an ambulance, it arrived promptly but by then I could barely walk, after being treated in the ambulance I was taken to warwick hospital and monitored for the afternoon once the symptoms had subsided enough I was allowed home with a couple of boxes of pills, I was picked up by my stepson and Good Lady. My bike was left with a local resident to be picked up later in the week.
My thanks must be extended to the cyclist who stopped, I'm very thankful for that. My thanks also go to the Ambulance crew and the hospital, I cant fault them in any way they were excellent.
Up to then I had been having a good ride, started out early, about half eight, for a ride to Kineton and varied my route, the other side of Harbury instead of going straight on at the junction I turned left into Bishops Itchington then right and left in Bishops Itchington through knightscote then right at the t Junction then right into Pimple Lane and then straight on onto Church Lane through Gaydon and onto Kineton. I started back on my usual route through Lighthorn to Chesterton then I turned left and right past the Chesterton Windmill then right and on through Harbury to pick up my usual route home, after I’d passed the Fox and Hen I turned right onto the Welsh Road heading for Offchurch instead of going straight on. I got stung riding into Offchurch, I crossed the main road and rode down through the village but by that time I was not feeling good and abandoned just the other side.

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steve50

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Sounds nasty, glad to read you recovered well. What was it, some kind of allergic reaction to the sting perhaps?
 
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Sounds nasty, glad to read you recovered well. What was it, some kind of allergic reaction to the sting perhaps?

Yes an allergic reaction. I have reacted badly to stings in the past, but nothing on that scale. The doctor was saying I might have to carry medication in future in case I get stung again.
 
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Glad you survived! I wonder what the insect was.

I haven't a clue, I didn't see it, it just brushed my lip as it flew across the front of me and went in with the sting.
 

raleighnut

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:eek: sounds nasty Dave, glad to hear you're OK now. :hugs:
 
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This morning I look like the victim of a botched plastic surgery procedure, great trout pout, but I'm feeling OK, I've got seven tablets to take with my breakfast

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gavroche

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Blamey! This is not the sort of thing you expect when you go out. Glad you are ok though. Have you got your bike back yet? Thumps up for the other cyclist , medical crew and the people who kept your bike. May I suggest you wear a full face motorcycle helmet next time you go out, as a precaution? :smile:
 
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Blamey! This is not the sort of thing you expect when you go out. Glad you are ok though. Have you got your bike back yet? Thumps up for the other cyclist , medical crew and the people who kept your bike. May I suggest you wear a full face motorcycle helmet next time you go out, as a precaution? :smile:

I'm going to phone the bloke who's got my bike later and arrange to collect it. I got a comment of the paramedic because I was helmetless.
 
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