Brewers GM Doug Melvin hospitalized from scorpion bite
Outside of knowing that “Rock You Like a Hurricane” is a good song, the only other thing I know about Scorpions is that it’s for the better if you don’t get stung by one.
Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin learned that the hard way Wednesday night at his Phoenix-area condo where the Brewers hold their spring training. The sting occurred on Melvin’s left middle finger, but soon affected his entire left arm.
Here is his recount via the Brewers Blog:
“I spent three hours in an emergency room in Scottsdale,” Melvin said Thursday morning at the Brewers’ Maryvale training complex. “My arm is still totally numb.
“It stung me right through the Kleenex. My arm started swelling and then the numbness started going up my arm, like when you hit your funny bone. I was wondering if it might go all the way up my arm and go to my heart. I got nervous when it got up to my shoulder, so I went to the emergency room.
“They gave me (pain medication) and just watched me for a couple of hours. They said your vision can go blurry from that. It was more an education on it but my arm is still numb. First off, they tell you it’s not fatal. But you can have an allergic reaction to it and need an anti-venom injection.”
My question: why would he think a tissue would prevent harm? Eh, I don’t blame him. He’s probably still concerned about when the next Ryan Braun-on-PEDs rumor will surface.
Anyway, the band was right. A scorpion sting could pretty much rock you like a hurricane…or at least send you to the hospital.
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can really sympathizw with anyone suffering fom a scorpio bite, or pica de escorpion as referred to in the mountains of taxco/mx..after hiking fell into a deep sleep leaving instructions w/hotel to awaken me for a 6pm dinner comitment.upon failure to answer the fone they entered my room and found me unconcious from 6 bites on the calf of my leg..they rushed me to a small 2 room hospital a mile away where they were thouraly experienced and started treating me and helicoptered in anti venom injectiones..spent 5 days in the tiny hospital, and was given a tatoo on my right upper arm to identify me as an excellent donor…received an education abour scorpiones,,they mate and nest in well shaded sunny places, such as in my casa under the bedspread of the bed i occupied next to the window..was presented w/a wall clock which has actual scorpions located where the numbers would be..a favorite time piece in my office..a scorpions potency is determined by the amount of venom contained in its sack..roadside restaurants in mexico are roofed using dried out palm tree branches, an ideal place for scorpions to dwell…many restaurant owners periodicaly beat the roofs with brooms to dislodge the speder nests..aside from being bitten, theres nothing worse than having them drop into your beer or soup..cuidate cuando comiendo en las restaurantes de las calles de mexico/dominic j.