“We were standing, saying our goodbyes when I put my bag on my shoulder and suddenly felt a sensasion like I was being burnt by a hot poker and looked under my arm only to realise that I had been stung by a bee! I asked Mikey if he’d like something for lunch from Pick n Pay to which he said he’d like a doughnut. My things were rung up and just as I was about to pay I was suddenly overcome with a feeling of complete panic as my hands started throbbing, as did my heart, head and ears (my entire body for that matter) along with a feeling that I couldn’t breathe and said to Mikey we had to go. I remember the cashiers looking at me very strangely as I walked away leaving my groceries behind. I immediately called my friend who didn’t answer her phone and then my husband who I told I was having a very bad reaction to a bee sting and that I couldn’t breathe and was panicking and didn’t know what to do!!!
At this stage I could hardly breathe and had to sit down in the walk way. My son started to cry and pulled on my shirt saying come let’s go mommy and I said to him I’m sorry boy I can’t move. An elderly man saw me and asked what was wrong and I said I’ve been stung by a bee and I asked if he had an Epipen, he shook his head. I remember thinking to myself that I was way too far gone for any over the counter drugs to help me and that I was going to die, as nobody including myself knew what to do and that I didn’t have a lot of time left! That was of course until another man came running towards me and knelt down next to me and asked what had happened and if he could help… I told him that I had been stung by a bee and that I needed to get to the hospital and then I became unconscious (this took all of about 4 minutes from the start of the anafalactic shock in Pick n Pay to the point where I became unconcious in the walk way at Cedar Square). This man was Obakeng Seutane. He dispersed the crowd that had gathered around me and put my hands behind my head to help open up my constricted wind pipe and then calmed my son down. He then told Mikey that he was going to take me to the hospital and got me up with the help of another man and carried/dragged me down the passage towards his car. Once there, I was put into a wheel chair and taken to emergency where I was administered adrenaline shot, after adrenaline shot, after adrenaline shot into my chest and various different antihistamines.
I am unable to recall anything at all from the time I fell unconcious at Cedar Square until I woke up in ICU that night and remember thinking to myself, Wowee, I am actually here! I am alive!!! I was privileged enough to meet with Obakeng today. He has given me my life, restored my faith in the youth of South Africa and in fact humanity as a whole and I can honestly say that he has made me see life in a completely different way! Thank you Obakeng, there are no words to describe my gratitude!!!”
Credit: Nicole Gillian Morgan🥰🥰
