IN 2010 a family friend from Melbourne, Paul Low, spiked himself while cleaning a snapper he’d caught in Port Phillip Bay. The injury continued to cause “nuisance pain” over the course of four years – but he never gave it much thought.
Just the other day, though, the cause of this nuisance pain decided to reveal itself – after four years! A snapper spike had started to emerge from the area of pain and, as you can see from the photos, Paul was able to remove the entire object – all 16mm of it!
And the pain? Well, it instantly disappeared!
Makes me wonder how many of us are living with bits of broken fish spikes under our skin!
Anyone else had a similar experience?
