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To: umgud

OMG I was stung by a jelly fish in Hawaii in 1978 I also have not been in the ocean since then that was the most God awful pain and infection I have ever had!!! I live right on the beach in CA. and refuse to go in the water!!!


8 posted on 11/08/2019 10:18:24 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I got stung near the Santa Monica in the 70’s.


13 posted on 11/08/2019 10:32:22 AM PST by umgud
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
Australian stonefish are a hoot too.

What it’s like to be stung by a stonefish


22 posted on 11/08/2019 11:05:17 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Probably a box jellyfish. I believe the big ones can be fatal it you contact around a meter’s worth of tentacles.

OTOH, Australia has them as well, and its small cousin, with a thimble-sized head, and maybe 4” tentacles, as little as an inch or less of contact can be fatal, and even being barely hit can give 1-2 days of waves of full body pain.


28 posted on 11/08/2019 11:20:39 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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