I got pricked by a sea urchin
By Nawsheen
@Nawsheen (28761)
Mauritius
April 10, 2017 4:46pm CST
Holiday Nightmare! At times our holidays don't turn out how we expected them to be. Yesterday, I came across an article where a tourist got bitten by a snake.
This brought back some memories of my camping trip in 2013. We were playing water volleyball when I accidentally stepped on a sea urchin. I started feeling a severe burning pain in my left foot. I had to immediately get out of the water. My cousin tried to remove the spine using a pair of tweezers but was unsuccessful as the spine was deep inside. We went to the hospital and they did an x-ray and shortly thereafter they successfully removed three spines. However my foot was paining very badly and they gave me some pain killers. Fortunately the pain subsided the next day but I had to be careful.
I guess many of you have some interesting holiday stories. Feel free to share 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
11 Apr 17
one of our holidays in the 70's was partly ruined when a friend of my dad's broke his shoulder diving into sea water and hitting the rocks - my parents spent the rest of the day in the hopital casualty department
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
13 Apr 17
@arthurchappell oh that was so bad for him
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Apr 17
@Nawsheen oh yes, though he spent the rest of the holiday with his arm in a sling - it was a rotten holiday all round - the only one where we collectively agreed to come home two days early
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
30 Apr 17
It sounds very scary. Thank God that you were able to get immediate treatment and you came out of your agony.
I can't recall any such experience.
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
1 May 17
@Nawsheen The intensity of pain would have been such that you are still unable to forget the incident.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
2 May 17
@dpk262006 oh yes i just cant forget about it because it nearly ruined my vacation. It was very painful too
@Slayqueen (918)
• India
6 May 17
My sister got bit by a peacock.. 
she was trying to hug it..
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
7 May 17
@Slayqueen a scar to remind her not to do it again
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@Slayqueen (918)
• India
7 May 17
@Nawsheen I don't know what happened next.. it was a long time ago.. she even has the mark..
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Apr 17
yes after a return from Vegas in '97 we stopped at a gas station half way home and i slid in the parking lot. i continued on to the bathroom but luckily we was on our way home because by the time we got home it was so swelled. i soon found out i had fractured my leg
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Apr 17
@Nawsheen about a month but even after it took a few weeks to stop giving me pain.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
17 Apr 17
@bunnybon7 im so sorry for you. Fractured leg do take long to heal.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
26 Apr 17
It is the invisibles that are the most dangerous to people those jelly fish.
I am glad that your foot is now feeling better friend..
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
27 Apr 17
@Nawsheen Good my friend. Yes the invisibles are deadly.
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@LeaPea2417 (40052)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Apr 17
I am sorry that happened to you. I got stung by a jelly fish on my foot on one trip to the beach, luckily I just took medicine and didn't have to go to the doctor. Another time, I got stung on the foot by a yellow jacket bee while on vacation at a tourist spot and had to go to the tourist infirmary where they put medicine on it.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
13 Apr 17
Oh so sorry to hear about that. I read about how painful it can be if you get stung by a jellyfish. Some have compared it to being burned by am iron. Fortunately you didnt have to go to the doctor. I remembered we once went to the fields and my dad got stung by 2-3 wasps. It did hurt him so much
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@LeaPea2417 (40052)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Apr 17
@Nawsheen My Dad is allergic to bee stings , so he has to be real careful.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 17
Thankfully I have never stood on one. I usually wear swimming shoes as I cut myself once so I am careful.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
25 Apr 17
@garymarsh6 i strongly agree with you on this. The sand is so fine over there and there are no corals to disturb you while you are swimmimg. Pereybere is like a a ''natural swimming pool'' to me
@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 17
@Nawsheen Yes I have been to Flic en Flac many times. My favourite beach is Pereybere! It is the best beach in Mauritius!
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
23 Apr 17
I have never stepped on one of those but I have seen them on the shore of New England and Canada. I'm glad you hurt for a short time so it didn't hurt your holiday.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
24 Apr 17
@PainsOnSlate we have lots of sea urchin over here in Mauritius. They are fragile. When we were small we used to collect the spines and were using it to write on our slates
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
24 Apr 17
@Nawsheen I have a few i found in Maine that are just the skeleton of that guy in the photo. It is beautiful and so fragile.
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@homebasedbobbie (1080)
•
23 Apr 17
ouch. I can feel your pain. we went swimming but not in the beach. equally fun. I don't like the beach as much as I do before when I got pricked by a sea urchin too. Good thing the locals in that area is really knowledgeable about how to remove it.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
23 Apr 17
@homebasedbobbie im sorry for you. Fortunately the locals were able to help you
@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
12 Apr 17
Ouch!! Glad the pain subsided the next day.
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@epiffanie (11327)
• Australia
12 Apr 17
oh! I could almost feel the pain ..sea urchins are nasty! ..
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Apr 17
That sounds very painful. My most interesting holiday was this past October when I went on holiday with a friend from my writer's group. We went to an island gotten to only by ferry, and had an enjoyable three days exploring the island and enjoying the wonderful food and the ultimate friendliness of the people who live there.
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@Mass_Sonu (1021)
• India
11 Apr 17
@Nawsheen This is scary, the pain you must've been through...But fortunate & good that the pain ended next day!
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