Austin Bellamy stays within the hospital after being stung by bees 1000's of instances.
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A younger Ohio man is combating for his life after he was stung by bees greater than 20,000 instances and swallowed about three dozen of the buzzing bugs.
Austin Bellamy, 20, was trimming a lemon tree final week when he unknowingly reduce open a beehive, releasing 1000's of African killer bees that rapidly swarmed round his head, neck and shoulders, his mom, Shawna Carter, advised Fox19Now.
“It seemed like he had a black blanket on his head all the way down to his neck, all the way down to his arms,” she advised the native outlet.
Bellamy was trimming overgrown branches up within the tree Friday morning as his grandmother Phyllis Edwards and his uncle watched from the bottom.
Instantly, he slashed open the hive and the indignant bees flew out.
“When he began chopping them, that’s when the bees got here out, and he tried to anchor himself down, and he couldn’t,” Edwards advised Fox19. “He was hollering, ‘Assist! Assist me! Assist!’”
She and Bellamy’s uncle had been below assault as properly and unable to assist.
“I used to be going to attempt 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 [by] bees,” she mentioned.
Firefighters responded and had been in a position to get him down from the tree.
Bellamy was airlifted to the College of Cincinnati Medical Middle whereas Edwards was dropped at an space hospital in an ambulance, the native outlet reported.
Bellamy was placed on a ventilator and positioned in a medically induced coma.
Carter mentioned her son had been stung greater than 20,000 instances and had swallowed about 30 bees within the description of a fundraiser she set as much as cowl his medical bills.
She advised Fox19 that hospital employees members had been “suctioning” bees out of Bellamy by way of Sunday morning.
She mentioned she handed out when she first heard what had occurred to her son.
“It was simply an excessive amount of for me to take,” she mentioned.
Bellamy lastly awoke Wednesday, however stays within the hospital, in accordance with Carter’s Fb. Medical doctors anticipate him to make a full restoration.
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