Dave_Z1a
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Sounds like a headline from the Daily Star doesn't it? So bizarre had to share this.
Twenty years ago he was no 8 in the country for windsurfing, did rock climbing and all sorts, fit and active.
One weekend he went wind surfing off the south coast in a harbour, think it was pool or Portland, he decided
to head out towards a moored ship and when he approached did a tight turn, got caught by wind shear and fell in.
Immediately he felt a sharp pain in his leg, like someone had stabbed him, felt really ill and struggled back to shore, could see no evidence of a cut or laceration as he thought he had scraped himself on possible barnacles growing on the hull. He had to drive up north to visit his sister the following day and was feeling quite ill, having blurred vision and muscle aches on arival his sister was concerned and thought he might have high sugar levels, neither had linked his incident in the harbour to him feeling so unwell. Turns out his sugar levels were off the chart and was taken to A&E and admitted. To cut a long story short he suffered months of agonising muscle pain, couldn't walk or breath propperly and was diagnosed type 1 too boot although treatment and insulin didn't do much to help him. After reciting what nad happened to him in the harbour the consultant sent blood samples to the school of tropical medicine. Turns out he was stung by a box jellyfish which probably had come from the ship in the harbour flushing its ballast tanks as these creatures don't inhabit the waters here. The poision was so great it nearly killed him, he is well today but his pancreas was wiped out and now has an insulin pump.
Talk about unlucky and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, amazing story.
Twenty years ago he was no 8 in the country for windsurfing, did rock climbing and all sorts, fit and active.
One weekend he went wind surfing off the south coast in a harbour, think it was pool or Portland, he decided
to head out towards a moored ship and when he approached did a tight turn, got caught by wind shear and fell in.
Immediately he felt a sharp pain in his leg, like someone had stabbed him, felt really ill and struggled back to shore, could see no evidence of a cut or laceration as he thought he had scraped himself on possible barnacles growing on the hull. He had to drive up north to visit his sister the following day and was feeling quite ill, having blurred vision and muscle aches on arival his sister was concerned and thought he might have high sugar levels, neither had linked his incident in the harbour to him feeling so unwell. Turns out his sugar levels were off the chart and was taken to A&E and admitted. To cut a long story short he suffered months of agonising muscle pain, couldn't walk or breath propperly and was diagnosed type 1 too boot although treatment and insulin didn't do much to help him. After reciting what nad happened to him in the harbour the consultant sent blood samples to the school of tropical medicine. Turns out he was stung by a box jellyfish which probably had come from the ship in the harbour flushing its ballast tanks as these creatures don't inhabit the waters here. The poision was so great it nearly killed him, he is well today but his pancreas was wiped out and now has an insulin pump.
Talk about unlucky and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, amazing story.
