If you plan to swim in the Amazon or Oranoco Rivers you may want to read this first. Here's a highlight to peak your interest:
Amputation of the private areas is the cheapest, and most life-changing, way to remove the fish. Actual surgery is extremely expensive and involves inserting the Xagua plant and the Buitach apple up the urethra. These two plants kill and even dissolve the parasitic fish. If surgery is not done in time, the blockage of the urinary tract will prove fatal. (emphasis mine)
Ah, yes. I may have died without ever reading of a necessary need to amputate the private areas. I cannot begin to imagine what that involves or what the final result may be. How do you amputate a bottom let alone other private parts? Does it result in a Hank Hill no-butt? I'm disturbed. I'm adding Swimming-in-the-Amazon to my list of things I will NEVER do.
1 comment:
i actually have heard of this. i think it was in a movie or maybe i dreamed it. that's frightening... you see that's why it's a good thing to not pee in the water. now we've got a good horror story to tell kids. otherwise i say, why not swim in the murkey waters of the amazon where anything else can swim up and eat you like alligators, piranha, hippos... poisonous snakes.
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