Well, I went almost 10 months without being bitten by one of these nasty guys…until last night. I was watching a movie with a friend when he got bit. He jumped up and wasn’t sure what it was that had bit him. The bite had two marks, something I hadn’t seen before. About a half hour later, I felt a SHARP pain on my hip. I jumped up, immediately felt faint and nauseous and had to sit back down…I had been bit also. We still didn’t know what had bit us. A few minutes later (I am reeling in pain!), we see the molokau (centipede) walking across the mat in front of us. Sila hit it with his bare hand 6 or 7 times, I had jumped up at this point and when I figured out what was happening, threw him my flip-flop. He continued to hit it and it finally died. I was so shaky after that, that I went home. The area got red and puffy and the pain was relentless. I took some tylenol and benadryl and tried to sleep. I woke up still in pain.

The pain has subsided a bit, but I am now terrified of coming in contact with one of those again!