Did I ever tell you about my experience with a jelly fish? Since I mentioned Miss Priss was stung last week while she was at the beach, I thought I’d share my experience with you for my Monday Memory.

I had gone to Texas for two weeks to stay with my aunt and uncle when I was sixteen for a summer vacation. I loved visiting them and it was always so much fun for this girl from Chicago to visit Texas! I loved it! Probably one of the reasons I ended up marrying a Texas boy!

One of the things I really wanted to do was go to the beach. What teenager wouldn’t? I had made friends with a gal from my uncle’s church and so he took her and I down to Galveston so we could swim and play on the beach for the afternoon. I remember my excitement, it was a beautiful day, big fluffy clouds in the sky, and I would hang my head out of the car to take pictures of them. Typical teenager.

Once we got to the beach we couldn’t get in the water fast enough! We were body surfing and my friend had just told me to be careful of jellyfish…..not five minutes later something grabbed my leg. When I say grab, I mean GRABBED, this thing was huge…it wrapped around my leg and I screamed. I tried to kick it off with my other leg, but it wrapped itself around that leg also, now was being pulled under water, while screaming!! My uncle was not swimming with us, he was in jeans sitting on the shore, but he heard and saw me. It felt like forever, it had pulled me under several times, but I finally got it off. My uncle had run into the water and carried me out. He had thought I was being attacked by a shark. I guess my screams were quite loud!

My legs were covered in stings, they started swelling right away and the pain…well it was intense. My uncle stopped at a store and bought meat tenderizer and made a paste to apply to my legs. When we returned home I had to soak in ammonia and water to draw out the poison. I remember being really sick for two days and then I was back, to my spunky self, pestering my uncle to do something else! Though I didn’t ask to go back to the beach!

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