The man's mother said there were so many stingers embedded in her son's skin that 'he felt like he was becoming a porcupine.'
Man stung by bees 20,000 times wakes up from comaRIPLEY, Ohio — An Ohio man has woken from a medically induced coma after his family said he was stung at least 20,000 times by bees, and swallowed dozens as well.Austin Bellamy had been trimming trees when he accidentally cut into a beehive, his family said.
“When he started cutting them, that’s when the bees came out, and he tried to anchor himself down and he couldn’t,” Phyllis Edwards, Bellamy’s grandmother, who was standing below at the time, toldEdwards told the station that she and her husband were unable to help because the bees were attacking her as well.
“I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin … but I couldn’t get to him because I was surrounded in bees,” she told WXIX.that they took four people injured at the scene to hospitals. Bellamy was then taken by helicopter to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.. “When I rubbed his head on Friday before they airlifted him here, he felt like he was becoming a porcupine. That is how pokey they were.
Carter told the station that in addition to the thousands of stings, Bellamy also swallowed approximately 30 bees, saying, “They were actually sucking the bees out of his airways till Saturday night into Sunday morning.”
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