Hey, me too! I was swimming off Vieques, it was Christmas Day, and I actually had to go to the emergency room for morphine. It was pretty bad. They warned me (well, actually they warned my sister, because I was too out of it to pay attention) that those neurotoxins can hang around in your nervous system for months. And sure enough I had mild pain and weird rashes, not so much at the original site where I got stung but along the main nerve pathways leading from the site, for about six weeks afterwards, on and off. Not too bad in terms of pain, but looked awful.
Sorry this happened to you! And thanks for the vicarious excitement. Sounds like a wonderful trip, jellyfish aside.
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Date: 2011-09-02 01:44 pm (UTC)Sorry this happened to you! And thanks for the vicarious excitement. Sounds like a wonderful trip, jellyfish aside.