Ohio Tree-Trimmer Expected To Survive After Suffering 20,000 Bee Stings

An Ohio man is now awake from a coma after he suffered “no less than” 20,000 bee stings final week.

Austin Bellamy, 20, was in a tree trimming branches along with his grandmother and uncle under when he “unknowingly” reduce a bee’s nest, WXIX-TV reported.

His grandmother Phyllis Edwards advised the information station bees got here out of the nest when he began to chop them and he had difficulties anchoring himself.

“He was hollering, ‘Assist! Assist me! Assist!’ And no person would assist him,” she stated.

“I used to be going to try to climb the ladder to get to Austin. ... I seen how excessive he was ... however I couldn’t get to him as a result of I used to be surrounded in bees.”

Bellamy’s mom, Shawna Carter, described the assault as wanting like her son had a “black blanket” from his head to his neck and onto his arms.

Each Bellamy’s grandmother and uncle have been additionally attacked by bees, Carter advised WCPO-TV, mentioning that they left stingers roughly 1-inch lengthy in her son.

“After I rubbed his head on Friday earlier than they airlifted him right here, he felt like he was changing into a porcupine. That's how pokey they have been,” Carter stated.

Bellamy’s household stated he was stung no less than 20,000 instances in the course of the scary assault and his mom added that he ingested roughly 30 bees, too.

Carter advised WCPO-TV that her son suffered a kidney failure and medical officers needed to suck bees out of his airways over the weekend.

Docs stated Bellamy ― who was beforehand in a coma on the College of Cincinnati Medical Heart ― would absolutely get well from the assault, WXIX-TV reported.

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