BUNKHOUSE RAMBLINGS

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Thanks for the invite, KT. Perhaps one of these days I'll be able to take you up on that.

[GunClick Rick]

KT made me a razor strop 

Could ya put a warning label on the next one!     Scared the he!! out of my wife this mornin!!

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Got my first Scorpion bite a few days ago, wow that huuuuuurrrrttt, I was putting things away in the shop and was moving some magazines when I felt this unbelievable pain in my middle finger on my right hand, I pulled my hand away at once and a Scorpion feel off onto my work bench, not knowing what to expect I went into the house and Told Tami I'd been bit, she had me sit down and hold my hand up with an ice pack on it, and I sat there for two hours, which was what was said to do, after the two hours I had no pain and it was like I was never bit at all, now a week later it is itching and all red, guess the ice slowed it down and now the healing is taking place, they say the scorpions here in the Northwest aren't as poison's as some other States, my brother in law was put in the hospital for three days with a bite in California, just one more experience for me in Oregon, so if any of you get bit here in Oregon just know you wont die from it, unless you have an allergic reaction, if you do I was told you would know right away, your tongue could swell and breathing could become hard...

                                       Stay away from these critters

                                             tEN wOLVES   

[Johnny McCrae]

Howdy TW,

Wow, that's quite a story and a horrible experience to got through. I'm glad to hear you are OK and will not have any lasting effect.

Many thanks for sharing this with us.

[GunClick Rick]

I think a black widow got me,whatever it was hit me on the top arch of my foot and i had 8 more bites up my leg,i been spraying like crazy for them very very bad this year,what is weird is i always have socks on,the next thing i know i'm sick as a dog for about two weeks,there is still a small hole in the top of my foot trhat itches like crazy and it was about two months ago,maybe it got in my sock

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

I swam into a Portuguese Man O' War jellyfish ... should have died by all accounts. But that is another for another time ...

The gist of it was that all that treatment got me real interested in poisonous bites .... and there are only two types of poison ...

The first causes massive red blood cell bursting ... it has a very painful onset which a person usually lives through. The cause of death is several days (weeks) later as the rbc's cell walls and debris hit the kidney ...  sounds like what you had ,,, you might want to have a 'good' doctor do a renal efficiency just to be sure ...

The second type of 'poison' cases a massive making of cholinesterase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinesterase/) >in the blood stream.
This in turn 'dissolves' the cholinester, which sits between nerve cells and acts as a kind of neutralizer. The result is a rapid firing of all the muscles causing clonic and tonic spasms The end result is ascending seizures, and if the person has got enough of the poison within him, he dies of the spasms stopping his breathing of stopping his heart ...

You wife was right about immediate treatment ... where the poison is in an extremity, extreme cold (i.e. ice) can cause the poisons to break down rapidly .... but a day after the bite I would see a very good doc (this doesn't happen all the time ... he will probably have to reference books ...)

[KidTerico]

TW I am very glad to hear your alright. Sounds like it was  a little scary. KT

[WaddWatsonEllis]

KT,

If I had any sense, I SHOULD have been scared!! I was on a night surface swim in Key West (US Naval SCUBA School) ...

It was April ... the water was just below body temperature ... It sounds corny now, but I felt at one with the water ... I was side-stroking to the blues tune "Had To Cry Today" when I switched to a breast stroke to see if I was heading in the right direction ( we were homing in on an oil lantern on the beach ...

And then I got stung ... the Man O' War attached to my Mae West, and as I tried to swim away from it I got tangled up in it's tentacles ...

I was uncomfortable in the water, but the discomfort arose when I hit the beach and the air (salt water has a neutralizing effect on the acid (that is why one pisses on a Man O' War victim ... the salt in the urine will neutralize the acid I an told) .

[Forty Rod]

Could ya put a warning label on the next one!      Scared the he!! out of my wife this mornin!!

Looks a lot like that girl you dated in high school.

[GunClick Rick]

Nah she had red hare,called them lop ears,baaaa haaa haaaaa

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Bummer, TW. We have the little purple scorpions around here. They're scarce. What kind are up there? I didn't know there were any. When we had the property up there in Selma, no one mentioned them. Glad to hear you're OK.

On a lighter note, I slammed my finger in a safe door the other day. Had to drill a hole in the nail to relieve the pressure. I used a .020 torch tip re-sizing drill for it. I dipped it in alcohol first, of course. It's now just about done seeping. Tip for the day: keep your fingers out of the way.  

[GunClick Rick]

I used to pan for gold at a place called Sweet Water up north,scorps were under every rock and piece of wood,i cuaght a few and put them on ice to put in clear resin later but never figgered out how to do it.Found a dinosuar print too but it was in and ancient piece of rock,no way to get it out,looked like a small raptor,showed it to my cousin and he thought so too,the whole area was ancient rock forms the rock looked like a slab of mud that hardened over time.

[Mogorilla]

Hey TW, keep benadryl around as a just in case.  It helps as well.  I am allergic to most bites.  As I have gotten older, I am no longer a death in 15 minutes kind of reaction, but it is still not good.   I have been bit by a spider and a stung by a wasp this year.   I was sick for three days from spider (little stinker got me on top of my head!)   Wasp got me on the jaw, I was down for the better part of a weekend for it.   Be careful out there.

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Thanks guys for the tips, living in the mountains as I do now, I'm seeing all kinds of insects we didn't have in California, at least where I lived, and Mongo thanks for the tip on Benadryl, Tami was going to give me some, but I seemed ok after using the ice for two hours, I've been here in Oregon now for just over a year, and have seen maybe five scorpions in all, not sure what the difference is between the really killer ones and the ones here, but I'm thankful the ones here aren't the bad ones, I cant imagine how much more painful they might be, sorry about the finger Will, I almost did that myself the other day, and yes watch where you put your fingers, KT, thanks pal...


                    tEN wOLVES 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

I used to volunteer Mon-Fri at Loaves and Fishes doing scut work in the kitchen ... and on weekends, I volunteered as a Docent with the Old Sacramento Living History ... (when I wasn't shooting SASS).

Then Janessa West, my 'boss' at OSLH mentioned if I would be interested in doing woodwork with the Sacramento Archives ... so I volunteer Tues/Thurs with them and M-W-F with Loaves and Fishes (today I am playing hooky ... and going to a going away party at the Archives).

I have been told that an autoharp is the easiest entry musical instrument to learn, but am very open to what I should start off with ... 'specially since I don't read music .... I would love to hear any thoughts  ... so PM me so that we don't clutter up  this thread ...

[FiremanBrad]

Did someone say Motorcycle??!!!  Howdy, Boys, I'm the new guy round here !  From central Mo, my hobby is collecting hobbies !  From bowhunting to my Harley to Civil War Reenacting and everything in between!!!

Here's my 03 Roadking! Me better half rides an 01 Fatboy



Another hobby that turned into a part time job, is we do European Skull Mounts, cleaned with Dermestid Beetles. We did over 70 skulls this yr!!  Here's a couple to show!

[FiremanBrad]

And I saw some bows back a few pages?  Here's a takedown longbow I built a few yrs ago out of bubinga, hickory and walnut

[GunClick Rick]

Me Like-em~






I'll take that buffalo on ya got showin

[FiremanBrad]

I have 5 more degreasing right now, cept they're smaller!!  That one was a big one , and the real deal, no fences!!!

Here's the canines of an African lion I did this summer!!!

[FiremanBrad]

Here's my Buffler I kilt back in 07, up on the Pine Ridge Res with the father in law, on the far left!



Hard work but worth it!!