Posted on 06/28/2023 7:07:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The family of a late Georgia mother believes she died of a severe allergic reaction after she stepped on a fire ant pile at her home.
After her tragic death, Cathy Weed is being remembered as a mother to everyone on Mountain View High School’s baseball team, for which her 15-year-old son plays. The team’s players stood side by side with each other on the field Sunday to honor her. Weed died Saturday after relatives say she stepped on an ant pile at her Lawrenceville home. Her family says she had a severe allergy to fire ants, and they believe her reaction to getting bitten was so strong that she died before she could get to her medicine. “Cathy always had a smile on her face. She was always just so cheerful, always cheering on every boy on the team, not just her son,” friend Zuhera Waite said.
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These little bastards are no joke.
I kill ‘em on sight.
What is your preferred method?
“How do you find out you have an allergy to fire ants?”
It’s not to figure it out.
She probably got bit by one fire ant sometime in the past and had a severe allergic reaction. That’s how most people learn they have an allergic reaction.
My nephew had a similar problem with bee stings and had to keep an epipen on him at all times. The allergy almost kept him out of the Marine Corps, but he made it in.
I’m surprised she didn’t keep her medicine on her at all times. Maybe she thought “I’m just going out for a couple minutes — I’ll be ok.”
It’s astonishing she was gone before she could get to her medicine.
They bite and sting you at the same time so you always have two little welts. And they do so with no provocation. As soon as they are on your skin, they attack.
In Florida I always found them to be more of a painful nuisance than anything but I never had to deal with a whole nest of them. It was always one or two at a time that found their way to my body.
When I was a kid I jumped a ditch and my hand landed in a fire ant mound. Wow!
I used to scrape the top off them and toss in other creatures to see if they’d make it out. Until I stuck in my own hand…
Nasty little buggers.
If one bites you, you’ll know. We lives in Georgia, and found out the hard way. My wife had to get shots and was always carrying an epipen in Georgia. The environment there did NOT agree with her!
Remember them (or similar) out in California. Mosquito bites were nothing compared with a jab from them b stards. It would itch for weeks.
Poison. Only works on one hill at a time but if you’re persistent they will go bother someone else.
I like a high mixture / concentration of permethrin. Little bastards die quick.
After living for 3 years in Texas I got a job in upstate NY and bought a house. Shortly after that my 2 year old daughter was in the yard and started screaming hysterically because she saw some ants crawling on her foot. She thought they were fire ants.
I found out that when they bite, I use a cotton ball soaked with rubbing alcohol and rub it for about a minute. It stops the burn, itch and swelling almost instantly!!
If I don’t catch them within a few minutes I get large pimple like sores which I scratch at night until they bleed and then it’s a mess for a week.
Same for mosquito bites!!
Gloss black Krylon spray paint takes ‘em out. Hit ‘em with it when they are out. They go back down in their nest and see that they are black and they stop working and kill each other.
For the record I do NOT agree with my horrible joke. It’s mean, foul and ugly. The FBI, DHS, and BLM hate it. And it sure as hell wouldn’t make it past the Texas school book commission, and may it be banned in Boston and placed in the Vatican index of forbidden jokes.
And SHAME on anyone that laughed. That only encourages me.
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Nuke ‘Em From Orbit!
“They bite and sting you at the same time so you always have two little welts.”.
They bite gain leverage for the stinger.
Some the hard way, unfortunately.
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