Wombat. Just read your two threads, what a time you have had getting home. Sorry to hear about both. Sounds like a bite of some sort but something similiar happened to me a few years ago in Geelong.
I was working in a canteen of a large Go Kart meeting. Had been on the cash register all day. By late that afternoon I was covered in welts, bigger than mozzie bites, from head to toe. Rushed to hospital and given shots of antihistamine. Took days for it to go away. Spent days sitting on the cold bathroom floor trying to deal with the itch until it subsided.
They think it was from handling money all day, dirty from dirty hands, build up and through my skin. Very unusual but who knows what yours might have been. More likely be soemthing like a bite than food related unless you ate something you were not familiar with. A very scary experience for you. Did they leave your vehicles at the stop where the FDS picked you up and how did you get back there?
Good luck with it in the future and hope someone has an answer to you Toyota trouble as well.

Thankfully you are fine and have another experience to relate.

Gawd alright! How scary!

My daughter has an Anaphylactic reaction if she's even within smelling distance of prawns! She thought it was only if she ate them, but at a family dionner out, she was sitting NEXT to someone eating prawns and off she went! Luckily someone nearby was a medical person and someone else had antihistamines. Her throat was closing up!

Apparently it's the iodine she's allergic to.

Oh so lucky you were 'with it' enough to remember the police station, Wombat.

Beth54

I am sure we would not have made it back to Ceduna, 220 klms away

Hi Wombat,

It is good to hear that all is well.Must agree with you about the RFDS  as i have had to use there service  a couple of times.I am now pilot a member($250) a year & give where they are collecting. 

tiger5 we have always supported them but did not expect to use them

The Aboriginal Communities have medical centres, the highway is an airstrip, and I think you can get some help at Penong.
If all else fails you can call into the roadhouses to get help and the RFDS will still come. Now you know how that system works and all your donations have gone to a good cause.

Good on you Mrs. Wombat! Your experience reinforces my belief that all wives, partners and women should be able to tow the van in good times and emergencies. Even if it's just enough to tow forward to get help. If you want to learn to reverse and park it, that's up to you, but to at least get the feel of how the vehicle behaves with the van hooked on, especially when a road train passes or overtakes your rig.
If the old man falls down the step and wrecks his ankle, no need to put the van and vehicle on the truck to go home, he just has to sit back in the passenger seat while you continue your trip.
Some of us don't have real estate and furniture to "go home" to.
While you received great attention at Yalata, you wouldn't want to stay there too long while your ankle healed.

Beth54 wrote:

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Gawd alright! How scary!

My daughter has an Anaphylactic reaction if she's even within smelling distance of prawns! She thought it was only if she ate them, but at a family dionner out, she was sitting NEXT to someone eating prawns and off she went! Luckily someone nearby was a medical person and someone else had antihistamines. Her throat was closing up!

Apparently it's the iodine she's allergic to.

Oh so lucky you were 'with it' enough to remember the police station, Wombat.

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 Know how your daughter feels Beth.  I am allergic to iodine too

 

I was OK till around my late 20's. Then quite a few allergies raised their rotten heads.

I have just found a book in my bookshelf that I picked up at a garage sale some time back. Haven't read it yet. Called "Hey Doc, Me mate's sick" by George Ellis. All about his time in the RFDS based in Cairns. Now might be a good time to read it. Written back in 1980.

Thanks guys for all of your concern, it was really bad at the time but now back to normal, well normal for me.

Don't remember running over any chinamen. lol

Sounds like a good book HW.

OK Clare, you are right to go, we cleared the path for you. lol

Thank Gawd!!! Now we KNOW you are well, Wombat!!

Glad your ok mate, must have scared the hell out of you. I have an allergy to VEGEMITE would you believe, they can't find out what ingredient causes it but it aint good. Errm, where was that golf course mate, like the look of the fairways.

Welcome to the site gubby, nah the problems were b4 the Nymphs, that was just to cheer me up. lol Par 4