CCTX – part three – sand & jellyfish

Mom, Dad and Ian left after we finished up at the Lexington, but Doug and the boys and I decided to stay one more day.  We hadn’t been to the beach yet!  My parents didn’t really care about visiting the beach.  My mom grew up in the Corpus Christi area, and just doesn’t like to get sand everywhere.  We haven’t visited the beach since Tanner was a little guy, so we really wanted to go. 

 

We were feeling kind of lazy though, and didn’t want to drive all the way out to Mustang Island, so we just went to CC beach instead.  We found a jelly fish washed up on the shore right when we got there.  Timmy was freaked out and didn’t want to get in the water after that.  We were able to get him out into the water a little bit, but not much.  He preferred digging in the sand. 

 

We all played in the sand for a little while.  Doug had gone out to get the sand rinsed off.  Timmy was going to stay on the beach while Tanner and I rinsed sand off of our bodies.  I was about 5 feet from the Timmy, holding Tanner’s hand, when a jellyfish stung me on the back of my right leg.  It felt like one tentacle had wrapped all the way around my knee.  At first, it just felt like something had brushed up against me.  Then it hurt a little bit.  A second later, I was in tears.  I had dragged Tanner back to the shore.  He wasn’t too happy about that.  I was trying to get Doug’s attention, and my leg was killing me. 

 

I didn’t have a clue how to treat a jellyfish sting.  (No, I would not, could not and did not pee on it!)  My leg was in so much pain.  It was red and blistering and I didn’t know what to do.  There were some people near us who were watching the jellyfish swim in the water.  While Doug called my mommy for advice, I asked them if they knew what to do for it.  Ice water.  Ok.  I have iced-down bottled water.  I dumped three bottles of water on it.  I wrapped ice in a towel and kept that on it.  Once we got back to the hotel, I put some rubbing alcohol and cortisone on it.  And finally, it felt better.  That hurt so bad!

 

And I didn’t get any pictures at the beach.  :(