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- Haole

I have a story about a stingray.
My wife and I were at Puerto Vallarta and sitting on the beach. Someone mentioned that they saw stingrays in the water.
Well - a little girl came screaming out of the water and couldn't stop crying.
The parents started yelling at her to stop being a baby.
My wife had enough with that and mentioned that they should have her daughter checked out for a stingray sting since someone mentioned that they had seen stingrays in the water.
They summoned the staff at the hotel and sure enough the little girl had been stung by a stingray.
Boy were the parents embarrassed after that lol.
Those fakkahs have poison on their barbs. It hurts right after they stick you... but it hurts more days later for some reason. My wife got stung on Thursday now that I think about it. She was in pain right away obviously... but it was not bad for a few days. On Sunday though, that poison flamed up with a vengeance. That's when she went in for medical help.
The barbs can break off in your skin. They x-rayed to make sure no pieces of barb were there... and then gave her intravenous benadryl, antibiotics, and morphine. Her foot was on fire and swelling bad. She's got a bunch of meds she's still taking that have helped a lot, but when you get jabbed by a stingray you're going to suffer through some pain for days. Not much they can do about it.