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Teacher considers scarification to retain potentially deadly box jellyfish sting
Harmony Dixon’s box jellyfish sting was excruciatingly painful, but one year on she’s considering permanent scarification to retain the wound that could have ended her life.
Key points:
- Harmony Dixon says when she looks at the jellyfish scar it evokes powerful memories of the time and place
- She says the deadly creature left a “beautiful” and “unique” wound on her body
- A wound expert warns that scarification, an ancient art growing in popularity, can have negative consequences
Warning: This article references the death an Aboriginal person.
The primary school teacher was swimming at Darwin’s Nightcliff Beach in late April 2020, a month before the end of the Northern Territory’s box jellyfish season.
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