Florida man miraculously survives after collapsing in extreme heat—and was unconscious for seven hours with fire ants crawling over his face.
A Florida man miraculously survived after he collapsed in extreme heat and was lying unconscious for seven hours with fire ants crawling over his face.
Clifford Rice, 49, was working as a security guard at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on Sept. 9 when he had a seizure in the parking lot and fell between two parked cars, according to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was treated.The last thing he remembered before blacking out was fire ants covering his face.
“A lot of them … [the ants] were just coming in a line like, 'Hey, man, come get some meat.' I was like, 'Wow, OK, this is a bad way to go out,’” Rice told ABC Tampa affiliate WFTS. The hospital said when he arrived he was not able to breathe on his own, was dangerously dehydrated and suffered from organ failure and extensive physical injures.By the time he woke up a week after he was admitted, he was about 60 pounds lighter and partially blind out of his left eye.
But despite the harrowing ordeal, Rice recovered in the hospital for about two weeks and was released on Sept. 25.Rice did not immediately respond to ABC News.
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