"It was like he was wearing a suit of bees," Watson said of 67-year-old Marcos Sauseda.
Sauseda was still in ICU at Scott & White Memorial Hospital on Sunday recovering from more than 200 bee stings, a day after he happened on a large hive on his daughter's property on Old Highway 95 in Temple.
But he was able to describe the attack.
"I was hit in the back of the head first, and then my entire back and arms were covered. I pulled my jacket over my head to keep them from attacking my face, but they got my face, nose and ears," Sauseda said.
"I rolled on the grass to stop them and put my face against the earth. The next thing I remember is someone saying, 'Put your arms out.'
"It's a terrible feeling to be lying down and you can't get away," he said.
Sauseda had been mowing his daughter's lawn while she was at work and had brought out a stool for his wife, 76-year-old Ramona, to sit on.
"He thought it was such a beautiful day, so he decided to get started on it," daughter Eloise Taylor said.
Before long, Mrs. Sauseda saw her husband fall to the ground.
"I thought he was having a heart attack because he has a bad heart," she said. "I got up and went to him and he yelled 'Go away,' but I told him 'I want to help you.'"
That is when the bees started to attack her.
"I didn't know what to do, so I got the gasoline and I poured some on me and him too. I asked him 'What do I do now,' and he said 'Call 911,' but I told him I can't because my hands won't let me," Mrs. Sauseda said.
She then made a difficult trek with only one fully functioning leg to the road, a distance of about 200 yards, to flag someone down.
"A lot of people kept on going. This one car passed but after he saw me still standing there, he knew something was wrong. I told him the bees have stung me, and my husband is down there and he still can't get up," she said.
Watson, of Belton, pulled into the driveway and dialed 911. He didn't see any bees then, but he said as soon as he stepped out of his car, they started stinging him.
"I ran to the back of the house to find the husband and found him on the ground yelling for help," he said. "I could see him covered in bees.
"I figured I had already been stung, so I picked him up over my left shoulder and ran with him as far as I could. The sound of the bees humming was like the sound of a helicopter," Watson said. "There had to be 500 bees on his back."
Watson then ran to the road to flag down the ambulance. When it got there and started treating Mr. Sauseda, Watson put Mrs. Sauseda into his car and took her to the emergency room.
"The bees continued to sting us the entire way. I just held her hand and told her it will be OK," he said.
Watson spent about three hours in the hospital and Mrs. Sausedo stayed overnight.
The Sausedas, of Belton, call Watson their guardian angel.
"God bless him for turning around and stopping and giving aid. If it wasn't for him I'd probably be dead," Mr. Sauseda said.
Watson just wants the couple to be OK.
"I knew I was going to be OK," he said. "I was just worried about them."
