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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 266622" data-attributes="member: 389"><p>People make me laugh. Has she never watched Nat Geo?</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/posing-with-octopus-on-face-sends-washington-woman-to-hospital/ar-AAFumao?ocid=spartandhp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">http://a.msn.com/05/en-us/AAFumao</span></span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/washington" target="_blank">Washington</a> woman, hoping an octopus on the face would make for a prize-winning photo, instead wound up with something she never expected: a faceful of pain and a trip to the hospital.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAFufek.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=956&y=323" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000">© Jamie Bisceglia</span> Jamie Bisceglia of Fox Island, Wash., was sent to the hospital after posing for a photo with an octopus on her face last Friday.</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News on Wednesday that she was participating in a fishing derby in the South Sound near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge last Friday when a group of men in the competition snagged an octopus. </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Bisceglia, 45, of Fox Island, on Wednesday recalled asking the men for the juvenile Pacific octopus they'd snagged, saying, “I’d like to eat it for dinner.” </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">She also asked the men to take a photo of her with the sea creature, intending to enter the snap in the derby's photography contest: "It’s soft, it’s squishy, it doesn’t feel like it can hurt you -- I put it on my face.” </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAFumux.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000">© Jamie Bisceglia</span> Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News she asked a group of men to photograph her with the octopus.</span>And at first, that wasn't so bad. “The tentacles were squirming in my ear, my nose, it was just playing with me on my face,” she said.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">“And then all of a sudden its beak entered my chin and my eyes popped open wide and they could all see that I was getting attacked, and the photos are taken at the moment it was attacking me.”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">The sensation was vivid and unforgettable. “Oh my gosh," she said, "when it bites you it feels like it’s barbed and if I pulled it out it was going to take out my flesh.”</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">When she finally pulled the octopus off, she said, the pain was intense, and the bleeding lasted for a half-hour.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Still, she didn't go to the hospital for two days, determined to finish two back-to-back fishing derbies first.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Between derbies, she even went to a friend’s house, cooked the octopus for dinner and “enjoyed a beautiful meal that was delicious.”</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">“I got a little revenge,” she added. </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">The next day she competed in the second derby. But when she woke up after, she realized she had to see a doctor immediately. </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">“I could tell I couldn’t swallow properly and I could tell when I opened my eyes it was kind of blurry, the left side of my face, my throat, my glands were swollen and it felt my left side of my face was parlayed,” Bisceglia said.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Days later, she said, she's still hurting, and her face and throat remain swollen. She also has a rash on her chin to show for her bid to grab a memorable photo.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Bisceglia said doctors told her the swelling could linger for months. And "I have to take tons of medicine, three different heavy doses of antibiotics and I’m taking milk thistle, which is supposed to help with the venom."</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Her takeaway? “I would tell everyone not to touch something that they don’t know what the consequences are.” </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">And who won the fishing derby photo contest that set this misadventure in motion. The results, she says, are still coming sometime this week. After her octo-ordeal, she's hoping it'll at least pay off with a win.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">“There might be a silver lining,” she said.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen, post: 266622, member: 389"] People make me laugh. Has she never watched Nat Geo? [URL="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/posing-with-octopus-on-face-sends-washington-woman-to-hospital/ar-AAFumao?ocid=spartandhp"][FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana]http://a.msn.com/05/en-us/AAFumao[/FONT][/FONT][/URL] [LEFT][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']A [URL="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/washington"]Washington[/URL] woman, hoping an octopus on the face would make for a prize-winning photo, instead wound up with something she never expected: a faceful of pain and a trip to the hospital.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][IMG]https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAFufek.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=956&y=323[/IMG][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000]© Jamie Bisceglia[/COLOR] Jamie Bisceglia of Fox Island, Wash., was sent to the hospital after posing for a photo with an octopus on her face last Friday.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News on Wednesday that she was participating in a fishing derby in the South Sound near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge last Friday when a group of men in the competition snagged an octopus. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Bisceglia, 45, of Fox Island, on Wednesday recalled asking the men for the juvenile Pacific octopus they'd snagged, saying, “I’d like to eat it for dinner.” [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']She also asked the men to take a photo of her with the sea creature, intending to enter the snap in the derby's photography contest: "It’s soft, it’s squishy, it doesn’t feel like it can hurt you -- I put it on my face.” [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][IMG]https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAFumux.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f[/IMG][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000]© Jamie Bisceglia[/COLOR] Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News she asked a group of men to photograph her with the octopus.[/COLOR]And at first, that wasn't so bad. “The tentacles were squirming in my ear, my nose, it was just playing with me on my face,” she said.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']“And then all of a sudden its beak entered my chin and my eyes popped open wide and they could all see that I was getting attacked, and the photos are taken at the moment it was attacking me.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']The sensation was vivid and unforgettable. “Oh my gosh," she said, "when it bites you it feels like it’s barbed and if I pulled it out it was going to take out my flesh.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']When she finally pulled the octopus off, she said, the pain was intense, and the bleeding lasted for a half-hour.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Still, she didn't go to the hospital for two days, determined to finish two back-to-back fishing derbies first.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Between derbies, she even went to a friend’s house, cooked the octopus for dinner and “enjoyed a beautiful meal that was delicious.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']“I got a little revenge,” she added. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']The next day she competed in the second derby. But when she woke up after, she realized she had to see a doctor immediately. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']“I could tell I couldn’t swallow properly and I could tell when I opened my eyes it was kind of blurry, the left side of my face, my throat, my glands were swollen and it felt my left side of my face was parlayed,” Bisceglia said.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Days later, she said, she's still hurting, and her face and throat remain swollen. She also has a rash on her chin to show for her bid to grab a memorable photo.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Bisceglia said doctors told her the swelling could linger for months. And "I have to take tons of medicine, three different heavy doses of antibiotics and I’m taking milk thistle, which is supposed to help with the venom."[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Her takeaway? “I would tell everyone not to touch something that they don’t know what the consequences are.” [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']And who won the fishing derby photo contest that set this misadventure in motion. The results, she says, are still coming sometime this week. After her octo-ordeal, she's hoping it'll at least pay off with a win.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']“There might be a silver lining,” she said.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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