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She got me too while I was out there trying to save some kid from a rip current, even though I was already pretty close to the shore.
It absolutely wrecked my arm—left me with three nasty welts. Within half an hour, everything had swollen up, and by evening, it felt like my skin was being roasted alive. While everyone else was busy telling me the sting would linger for years, I was busy lying to myself, claiming the jellyfish burned me when I was a kid (which is true) and that my body had basically built up an immunity so it’d clear up fast.
Sure enough, the stinging just stopped out of nowhere, and now, a month later, the scar is finally fading away day by day.
My old lady’s been a nurse for over 30 years now. She’s basically living at the hospital, pulling all kinds of night shifts and dealing with every type of crazy patient imaginable 24/7. After all those years on the front lines, she’s become incredibly blunt and thinks she knows everything about every single illness you could name. I guess they call it occupational hazard or some crap like that.