Liam was playing keeper at the very end of the game tonight and when he does, I often go stand behind him. A bee was bothering me, and after swatting at it over and over, I began to walk away and it stung me on the ear. Five more minutes later, the game was over and Liam came over and told us that he was stung by a bee twice. He showed us two marks, one on the arm and one on the eye. There were little raised “white” marks.

Since so few kids came to play tonight on account of 100 degree weather and it was the day before the holiday, Liam played with three other teams in one game. And he was friends with a few of them, so another parent asked if Liam could go out for ice cream with them. I told her that he could, but Dalen has to give the parent her number in case something happened to Liam because this was his first bee sting.

I drove with Helena and Ada to Lunds to get a few things, then I drove down to Sebastian Joe’s to pick Liam up. His eye was huge at this point. So it was off to the emergency room after figuring out from Dalen where I was supposed to take him.

The emergency room just asked a few questions and prescribed a steroid to lessen the swelling. So off to Walgreens we went.

While waiting for the prescription, Ada spotted something for Liam .

Liam never cried about any of it. After he was stung, he still stayed in goal until the end of the game. Later that night, he had to eat something while the girls went to bed (we got home well after 11:00 pm) so that he could take his medication. He asked if in the morning he could read the literature about bee stings that was given to us. I told him that we could.

The next morning he came upstairs after I had just taken a shower and was visibly upset. He had read the literature and noticed that it talked about the bee’s poison, and asked if there was poison in him. After I showed him that he had none of the symptoms from being poisoned that were on the paper, he felt much better, but he must have some scary thoughts between reading about it and talking to me.

The next day his eye was a little puffy still, but by the third day, it was almost all gone. This was the afternoon after – not quite 24 hours later.