Speaking of spiders, a friend of ours up in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin got bitten in the FACE by a brown recluse spider and didn't know it. She's on multiple antibiotics and other drugs now.
This is after she kicked her alcoholic husband out of the house.
Geez............
Hoping she will be ok.
Years ago, our former accountant's late 20-something son was bitten by a brown recluse high up - VERY high! - on the inside of his thigh. Being at the age he was, and having a bite
where it was, he was embarrassed to tell anyone....until he got sick and the bite got really nasty.
He went to the ER...which was when it was determined it was a brown recluse bite. He was on anti-biotics for months and had to have several procedures to remove dead tissue, and evnetually a skin graft. He was very lucky. Doctors told him if he had not gotten medical care when he did, or if the bite had been a couple inches up and over....he would have been looking at losing body parts or even his life.
I hate, Hate, HATE spiders!!! Only good spider is a dead spider!
Don't know if anyone watches the new show on ABC on Tuesday nights, "Combat Hospital" set in Khandahar...but one of the "new" doctors, turned around in the shower and there was a huge spider coming over the shower wall. She grabbed her gun and shot it....my kind of woman!!!....and then her gun was taken away for "unlawful firing of a gun on a military base". Her co-workers gave her a medal for "Spider Sniper".
