adamjr
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We are vacationing in Clearwater Beach, FL. We went for one of our multiple daily jaunts in the Gulf of Mexico. As I was wading back toward shore and speaking with another tourist I thought I was bit by a sand crab.
I waded back and had my foot in a couple of inches of water and it was bleeding. I wish I had the video camera because it was actually kind of cool. As the water rolled in you could see the blood just around the small wound. When the water rolled back out the blood left the wound in a stream out toward deep water. It is on the inside of my foot over the top by about a half inch. I did a kind of ballet pose and put pressure on it with my other heel. It stopped bleeding.
I spoke with the desk guy, a native gulf coaster, and he said it looked like a stingray sting. He also said if it was a crab bite I would have 2 punctures. He said to put it in warm water although wikipedia says to use water as hot as you can stand because it will change the proteins in the venom and make it inert. I did use an ammonia based bodily fluid (thanks Tammy, I guess now we could be called kinky but I didn't enjoy it) as I recall from the Discovery channel.
The pain was evened out but I thought I saw a black something sticking out of the wound so I had Tammy try to squeeze it out and that may have been the wrong thing to do because now the pain is intensified. I would like to avoid the ER if I can.
Any ideas?
I waded back and had my foot in a couple of inches of water and it was bleeding. I wish I had the video camera because it was actually kind of cool. As the water rolled in you could see the blood just around the small wound. When the water rolled back out the blood left the wound in a stream out toward deep water. It is on the inside of my foot over the top by about a half inch. I did a kind of ballet pose and put pressure on it with my other heel. It stopped bleeding.
I spoke with the desk guy, a native gulf coaster, and he said it looked like a stingray sting. He also said if it was a crab bite I would have 2 punctures. He said to put it in warm water although wikipedia says to use water as hot as you can stand because it will change the proteins in the venom and make it inert. I did use an ammonia based bodily fluid (thanks Tammy, I guess now we could be called kinky but I didn't enjoy it) as I recall from the Discovery channel.
The pain was evened out but I thought I saw a black something sticking out of the wound so I had Tammy try to squeeze it out and that may have been the wrong thing to do because now the pain is intensified. I would like to avoid the ER if I can.
Any ideas?
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