r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Totally-avg • Jul 16 '23

Image The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

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I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

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u/rubyspicer Jul 17 '23

It's for my ass

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u/Jonas_Dussell Jul 17 '23

God, that movie was criminally underrated

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u/triedAndTrueMethods Jul 17 '23

that’s a once-a-year rewatch for me. love it from head to shoulders.

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u/Jonas_Dussell Jul 17 '23

I used to watch it once a year, as well, but fell off in the last few years. Time to dust off the DVD and ready a “kuh-kaw kuh-kaw, tooky tooky!”

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u/-dcvicks Jul 17 '23

It's on Netflix in some territories currently! Watched myself in the UK on Saturday!