Laquna Ross knew something was wrong when her father flinched as she held his hand. It was swollen.
That was just the beginning of the injuries Ross says she surveyed in horror last Friday at the VA hospital in Georgia. A photo shows 74-year-old Joel Marrable’s shirt pulled up to reveal the red bumps clustered on his stomach — evidence of more than 100 bites from the ants that filled his room in a veterans’ nursing home, his daughter told local news station WSB-TV.
“The ceiling, the walls, the beds. They were everywhere,” Ross said.
Ross claimed that hospital staff told her they thought their patient died when they found him covered in the insects days earlier, according to WSB-TV.