Kim and are currently in Sihanoukville which is a beach town on the southern end of Cambodia.
The big news today is that I got stung by a jellyfish while swimming near the beach.
I don't actually remember if this is the first time that I got stung, but a couple nights ago we watched a documentary on the "National Geographic" channel about two australian scuba divers that survived being stung by a tiny >killer< jellyfish. The male scuba diver was in the hospital in pain for 2 days, while the female diver was in pain for 2 weeks!
I don't know which >kind< of jellyfish stung me - I only recently learned there was a killer kind - so I asked the bartender near the beach if there were jellyfish. He had a Scottish accent so I'm sure he understood the question and he said yes, but none big enough to be worried about. Being a good bartender, he gave me a lime to squirt on it.
The lime didn't make much of a difference.
But anyway, now 5 hours later, it doesn't really sting that much anymore. Which is good because Kim, being a good girlfriend, had offered to pee on it! (Which I think is actually only for certain spiders - not jellyfish.)
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Hi Sean - when I was a 4 year old kid I got stung by one of these in England:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o%27_War
I coughed for 8 hours and finished up in hospital where I had an injection I think it was similar to Valium.
I had a look and your sea creature online.
It was worse than mine. Cool though how it travels using a "sail".
Mine left only a 5 inch rash that went away in less than a day.
I had a couple suggestions about having someone pee on the rash and even a question from someone I'll call D, hoping that the sting was not on my face :)
So, no the sting was not on my face.
And it went away on it's own.
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