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Naomi Lewis has given birth to four children, but nothing prepared her for the excruciating and long-lasting pain of an encounter with a venomous stinging tree in Queensland's far north.
She was mountain biking at Smithfield, near her Cairns home, when she came off her bike, left the trail and hurtled down an embankment, sliding into a stinging tree, known colloquially as a Gympie-Gympie plant.
The 42-year-old said the pain on both her legs — from where her shorts finished — was "100 per cent the worst pain ever", describing the sensation as feeling like she had been set on fire.
"It was horrible, absolutely horrible," she said.
“The pain was just beyond unbearable. The body gets to a pain threshold and then I started vomiting.
"I've had four kids – three caesareans and one natural. Childbirth, none of them even come close."
Ms Lewis's husband Richard drove her to a nearby pharmacy, where they bought leg wax to remove the fine hairs from the tree's leaves and stems that had become embedded into her skin, injecting venom into her like tiny hypodermic needles.
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She was mountain biking at Smithfield, near her Cairns home, when she came off her bike, left the trail and hurtled down an embankment, sliding into a stinging tree, known colloquially as a Gympie-Gympie plant.
The 42-year-old said the pain on both her legs — from where her shorts finished — was "100 per cent the worst pain ever", describing the sensation as feeling like she had been set on fire.
"It was horrible, absolutely horrible," she said.
“The pain was just beyond unbearable. The body gets to a pain threshold and then I started vomiting.
"I've had four kids – three caesareans and one natural. Childbirth, none of them even come close."
Ms Lewis's husband Richard drove her to a nearby pharmacy, where they bought leg wax to remove the fine hairs from the tree's leaves and stems that had become embedded into her skin, injecting venom into her like tiny hypodermic needles.
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Naomi fell off her bike and into a stinging tree, causing her the 'worst pain ever'
Naomi Lewis said nothing could have prepared her for the excruciating and long-lasting pain of an encounter with a venomous stinging tree in Queensland's far north.
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