Yesterday, while playing in my favorite course, two things happened. Shot a great game. Sure, I was playing best disc, but is good practice, IMO, for leagues or games that count. Anyway, I had a great drive with my 2nd disc on hole 17 of the course. The first drive hit a tree half way down and went right. I saw where it was from the tee, or so I thought. When I went to look for it, I couldn't find it. Almost felt like just letting it go and not looking which is very unusual for me. Then I spotted it, walked up and saw on the ground by it a hollowed out log with a whole lot of flies buzzing around. Looked exactly like flies. So, I reached down to grab my disc and moment I touched my disc, I realize, these aren't flies. I was then feeling like I was getting stung multiple times. Took me about 10 seconds and about 50 steps of running to feel like I escaped. But I was stung 2 times for sure.
Then I was in lots of pain. I've been stung by bees before and this was much more pain than that. Took some Benadryl, a little Tylenol and applied ice to both stings. Determined it was probably ground hornets that stung me as they looked nothing like bees. Was in pain most of the evening and upon google search was under impression I'd be in pain for 3 to 5 days. But today woke up and while there is some residual pain, it is night and day better than it was yesterday.
Part of me thinks the nicotine in my system helped in the quick healing. I'll admit I don't know, and will also admit that I at first thought it made things worse. But hard to understand how I took to healing so fast, though not complaining that I did.
Remind me that if there's a whole bunch of flying insects swarming around my disc to not reach for my disc as if it's no big deal.
