An Ohio man is in hospital after he was stung approximately 20,000 times by bees while cutting tree branches last week, his family said.
Austin Bellamy, 20, was helping trim some tree branches on a lemon tree last Friday when he accidentally cut into a nest full of Africanized killer bees, his mother Shawna Carter wrote on a GoFundMe created to help with Bellamy’s hospital bills. Read more: Top Russian oil executive dies after ‘fall from hospital window’ “He was just covered in bees,” Carter told WCPO. “Screaming and yelling, crying for help.” Carter told the outlet that her son was put into a medically induced coma over the weekend at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
She confirmed to FOX19 that he woke up from the coma Wednesday. His grandmother, Phyllis Edwards, was standing below the tree when the bees attacked, but said she was unable to help because she was also under attack. “When he started cutting them, that’s when the bees came out, and he tried to anchor himself down, and he couldn’t,” Phyllis told FOX19. “He was hollering, ‘Help!
Help me! Help!’ And nobody would help him.” Read more: Woman, 93, dies after being served dishwashing soap instead of juice in care home “I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin… I seen how high he was … but I couldn’t get to him because I was surrounded in bees,” she said.