Why in the world was she not wearing shoes?

Good question, here’s a safty tip- wear shoes will stomping around, esepecially in Peru!

Gotta love that Canadian health care system !!

When in Peru……

EEEEWWW!

Ahhh, the ever-present presence of a righteous right-wing blogger. What a fool she was! She deserved her fate.. all of that internal bleeding and pain and all, that will teach her to wear no shoes! May we all achieve your level of godliness in the near future.

-fah q ideeoat

Re: “Gotta love that Canadian health care system !!” by Rob Edmunds

Rob, If you actually read the details of the story, you would have known that this case had absolutely nothing to do with the Canadian Health Care System. The reason why this poor girl died is because she didn’t seek treatment until seven days after she returned to Canada, and four days after bruising appeared on her legs. An antidote was sent from Brazil and took 48 hrs to reach Edmonton, but it was too late. Get informed before you make ignorant comments like that.

Stepped on one of Brazil’s poisonous caterpillars. Now I have felt pain before. but nothing remotely like that. I thought I had stepped on burning coals. I can not imagine stepping on 5 at once. To add insult to injury, I was in such pain, I could not kill it. You had to be there to see me withering on the ground to know why killing it wasn’t exactly my top concern at the time. My wife thought I was having a heart attack. 3 hours later I was walking (VERY carefully and with thongs on) and opened a gate. The SOB got me on the hand! Not as bad, but…

I was nailed by a 6 inch centipede on the shoulder in Hawaii. I’ll take a 6 inch centipede any day. No… I’ll take SIX 6 inch centipedes any day over one 2 inch caterpillar.

We have a tree that had a hatch drop of a similar but different color caterpillar about a month ago. I went out one morning and there were about 500 young ones on the patio and in the garden areas. I am STILL finding 1 or 2. And yes, I wear shoes at all times.

Oh, about those horrible countries that have free medical care? Brazil does. My wife was bitten by a dog. We have private medical insurance, but the Government Hospital is closer, so we went there. At the Government Hospital, the trip to the emergency room, the series of rabies shots (3 or 4 separate visits), tetanus shot, and antibiotic shot… TOTAL COST $0.00. I tell people here that in the U.S. she would have been looking at at least $1000 MINIMUM. Their eyes get really big.

We have private dental insurance. $25/month. I had a root canal and 3 crowns. Root canal covered. Cost of crowns = $500. And yes, the dentist and quality of work was as good as I would have had in the US.

Why would it take more than 48 hrs to get the anti venom?…Fed Ex could have had it in a day at most.

I suggest people wear shoes everywhere but in their beds…unless, of course, you are overseas. Less chance of critters crawling in your shoes and safer if you don’t want punture wounds on the bottoms of your feet. And for what it is worth, never, ever, run around in the woods, jumping onto boards and such. When I was a kid, running through the woods with some friends, I jumped onto a piece of plywood. A nail went straight through my tennis shoe and into my foot~ tetnus shot anyone?

Please more on the Caterpillar in the story!! I never heard of a caterpillar that could kill!! Thank Uou. Elbert Gentry

While this is so tragic for such a young woman, everyone needs to realize when traveling to foreign places that there are hidden dangers from insects. Our bodies are not immune to them as would someone be who grew up there. Mosquitos, flies, etc. can all have drastic effects on our bodies if we are bitten. So I think it’s more the responsibility of the person traveling than the drs. here. But it would be an extra to have the drs. here more educated about this.