Scorpion Fish Have you ever heard of scorpion
fish? I was completely (1)… UNWARE they existed until l trod on one
in the sea. I can’t (2) EMPHASIZE .. enough how painful IT was! TheY haVE
a spike which gives you an (3) INJECTION…. of a (4) …POISONOUS…
substance. It’s not dangerous, but you begin to feel Extremely
(5) …COMFORTABLE , and the pain just gets worse and worse. Luckily
there was a doctor on the beach. She was a (6) …
SURGEON .. at the local hospital. And she told me what the best (7) …TREATMENT… was. I had to
bathe my foot in warm, salty water and then apply an ammonia-based
solution. After my holiday, my foot still seemed to be a
little infected, so my local GP gave me a (8) …PRESCRIPTION… for
antibiotics. Unfortunately, it turned out I was (9) …ALLERGIC to
them, so I came out in a red rash all over my body. It was over a week
before l had made a complete (10) …RECOVERY.