We found out my husband was allergic to wasps after they stung him.

In the twenty-five years my husband and I had been together, I had never seen signs of him being allergic to anything but dust and pollen.

Two weeks ago, he got stung by a wasp.

At first, all I saw was some swelling, so I put baking soda on the sting and made him sit down. Not thirty seconds later, my husband was having difficulty breathing. I put him in the car and took him to the emergency room. John was gasping for air and he said it hurt to breathe. I walked into the hospital and grabbed a wheelchair, while telling a nurse my husband was having an allergic reaction to a wasp sting. We hadn’t even checked in when the nurse came out and the doctor was right behind her. The doctor put my husband on a heart monitor and kicked me out of the room. For the next hour, all I could think about was if I would ever see my husband alive again. The doctor finally came out and took me back. My husband had gone into cardiac arrest because of the wasp sting, and they were keeping him in the hospital for forty-eight hours. He said that with this type of anaphylactic reaction from a bee sting; it was likely he would go into cardiac arrest again. I spent the night in the hospital, not wanting to let John out of my sight. We thought he was going to go home the next day, but he went into cardiac arrest the following morning. We now carry Epi pens with us at all times. I don’t want my husband anywhere near bees, and especially wasps.
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