Woman crushed by Humpback whales - Australia

[Wingy]

Hey don't apologise I'm a big fan of Billy - particularly that skit - and in a weird way put the spider incident in the "well, that's another life experience once is enough box"

 

[dmaziuk]

According to Wikipedia, southern right whales migrate seasonally between Antarctica & Australia, so I supposed "Surfers attacked by Gigantic Illegal Immigrants" might have been the headline.

We say "by bloody migrants" down under.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Classic mistake - I decided to give my house a bit of a makeover so had moved my old timber Venetian Blinds outside to disposed of but decided to salvage a few slats for architraves on a bas relief I wanted to do so was sitting there enjoying my cat pouncing on the slats as I pulled them out which in retrospect might have been a clue. I never saw the spider never had any bite marks (another trick up their sleeve - injecting anticoagulant so you don't see the expected bite marks) just a pain I could only describe as ten thousand anenome spines mixed with 240 volts piercing your entire being..every cell instantly. Then my vision disappeared and thankfully came back slowly but pixelated enough to see my phone and dial for help. Anaphylactic shock is the real killer...which obviously avoided, but the next 8 hours of violent vomiting while sweating and covered in massive reptilian goosebumps all over weren't pretty, followed by 12 hours of shaking, hypersensitivity to light, sound, touch, paranoia and exaggerated responses to things like a moth (ducking for cover under a table because a moth flew past the window) and we still had 48 hours to go as redback venom is very slow moving. Bone aches and extreme lethargy to the point of falling asleep at traffic lights and at my own birthday and extreme loss of coordination lasted about a month. I managed to fall over so many times I've still got one wrist in a brace.
The only upside is I seem to be able to draw now and I learnt a lot about neurotoxins and that anti venom is overall ineffective and can cause lifelong complications so I opted not to have any.

Good lord. Nope.

 

[dmaziuk]

Good lord. Nope.

And that's just a redback, they hide in your wheel wells and only bite you if you try to change the tire or bleed the brakes or something. Over on the other side they've funnel-webs, those will chase you to your bathroom and break the door down to bite your head off.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

And that's just a redback, they hide in your wheel wells and only bite you if you try to change the tire or bleed the brakes or something. Over on the other side they've funnel-webs, those will chase you to your bathroom and break the door down to bite your head off.

And yet you persist. Good on you, m8.

 

[dmaziuk]

And yet you persist. Good on you, m8.

They do: I've been in sunny Wisconsin since the start of the century. And now they won't even let me back in.

 

[Scared Silly]

Whales 2 Snorkelers 0

Second woman injured by whale in Western Australia

 

[Shasta_man]

Conspiracy theorists confirm it was the same bloody migrant whales that crushed that lady.

@Wingy Getting off the floor after every sentence brought me closer to the edge of my chair until I ran out of chair. It's clear now we don't really think about what that little list of symptoms really means. The neurological symptoms and their longevity were pretty amazing. You don't really think about how amazing your body is and how it works until something that interrupts those signals happens. You've got a pretty good lock on the best "It happened to me" story in any room. Except apparently a funnel web person. I've been lucky to avoid venom so far, though I tried to get bitten by a rattlesnake by walking within inches of it until that familiar sound suddenly lit up next to me. I wasn't bitten only because it decided not to. I was happy with that choice.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Classic mistake - I decided to give my house a bit of a makeover so had moved my old timber Venetian Blinds outside to disposed of but decided to salvage a few slats for architraves on a bas relief I wanted to do so was sitting there enjoying my cat pouncing on the slats as I pulled them out which in retrospect might have been a clue. I never saw the spider never had any bite marks (another trick up their sleeve - injecting anticoagulant so you don't see the expected bite marks) just a pain I could only describe as ten thousand anenome spines mixed with 240 volts piercing your entire being..every cell instantly. Then my vision disappeared and thankfully came back slowly but pixelated enough to see my phone and dial for help. Anaphylactic shock is the real killer...which obviously avoided, but the next 8 hours of violent vomiting while sweating and covered in massive reptilian goosebumps all over weren't pretty, followed by 12 hours of shaking, hypersensitivity to light, sound, touch, paranoia and exaggerated responses to things like a moth (ducking for cover under a table because a moth flew past the window) and we still had 48 hours to go as redback venom is very slow moving. Bone aches and extreme lethargy to the point of falling asleep at traffic lights and at my own birthday and extreme loss of coordination lasted about a month. I managed to fall over so many times I've still got one wrist in a brace.
The only upside is I seem to be able to draw now and I learnt a lot about neurotoxins and that anti venom is overall ineffective and can cause lifelong complications so I opted not to have any.

Omg! Did they take you to emergency or just tell you what's coming and leave you at home?

I'm so glad to learn that you've recovered for the most part.

 

[Ministryofgiraffes]

3 now.... it’s a serial!