Woman stabbed by stingray while wading
An unexpected encounter with a venomous stingray turned a relaxing day at Bahia Beach in Ruskin, Florida, into a life-threatening ordeal for Tampa resident Kristie Cataffo-O’Brien. She and her husband had planned a simple day of dining and swimming at the beach, but their plans were abruptly interrupted when Cataffo-O’Brien was impaled by a stingray’s barb in the shallow waters. Initially mistaking the intense pain for a jellyfish sting, Cataffo-O’Brien soon realized the gravity of …