Living In Fear
This story is about our son “Chevy” and how we live in fear every day. Chevy has an anaphylactic reaction to a jack jumper sting and he is only 8 years old.
He has been stung twice in his short life both times were on his fingers. The first time his hand and arm swelled to twice its size but didn’t require medical treatment, but the second time I needed to rush him to the RHH because you could see the poison travelling up his arm and the swelling was so fast he was having trouble breathing. By the time I got him to hospital he was in anaphylactic shock. The doctors took him away and said I got him there just in time (Chevy was only 4 years old at the time). Now he has to carry an epipen where ever he goes because if he is stung again he could die.
Everyday he goes to school we always tell him we love him because we don’t know if it will be the last time we see him or not.
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