Late this afternoon, I was shocked to received a text message from my mother that she and my father were at the hospital emergency room because my father had been stung by a wasp. He had gone outside to feed our cat and water plants the plants near our back porch when he was attacked by a wasp that descended on him from the wasp's nest hanging near our porch. The wasp stung him on the back of the head and then again on the hand when he swatted the insect away. At the hospital, he was injected with a dose of antihistamine and is now back home and resting. (In the meantime, I made sure I wore a hat when I myself went out to the garden to cautiously retrieve a t-shirt that I had laundered this morning and hung out to dry.)
2 days ago
