“I’m finally falling asleep, and I feel something on my back, a little tingling.
I swiped it, I killed it.”
Rodriguez said that his “New Yorker” instincts then kicked in.

Ramon Rodriguez.Credit: ABC/Matt Miller
“If there’s one, there’s more, like, where’s the rest of the scorpions?
I didn’t find them.
I’m so tired, I go back to bed,” he said.

Ramon Rodriguez on ‘Good Morning America’.ABC
“They sent a doctor and [he looked at the] scorpion,” Rodriguez continued.
“First of all, it stung me three times.
I saw three welts on my back.

He said, ‘You’re lucky.
If a scorpion has big pincers, that means the venom is low.
If it had small pincers, high venom.’

Ramon Rodriguez on ‘Good Morning America’.ABC
Luckily, mine had low venom.