Postby GILREATH » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:49 pm
wish i could post pictures.
i'm just now healing from a spider bite.
i don't remember when it happened , so probably in my sleep, but it sure did a number on me.
Middle finger, halfway up, right hand. started out as just a little bump. I tried to pop the bump, "BEARDED CLAM" came out, and it would get bigger each time. by the third day, i had a bullseye surrounding the bite, and a big "BEARDED CLAM" pocket. It was very sore, but it was on a sunday night when it swelled up (double the normal size of my finger), so i didn't want to miss work and went in as usual. About 8 in the morning, my finger, the two fingers next to the infected finger, and on down a couple of inches on my knuckles were swollen and blue, they also hurt to bad to move, i had a temperature of 101.
Went to the doc and he popped it, drained it, and gave me a shot in the wound. also gave me some antibiotics.
That was last monday when i went in. It did not show the slightest sign of improvement until Tuesday of this week. Hallucinations at night, severe fever, nausea.
The doc said there is virtually no way to tell what type of poison I had in me, unless he had a dead spider in the office with him to analyze, or an accurate description of the spider. He did say that it was defenately not a black widow--as a black widow bite is extremely painfull, immediately noticable, and can often times cause parallyses in a matter of minutes. Said a black widow or brown recluse bite can put a grown man down; if, especially if he does not know what he has been bit by (ie: at night when sleeping) or when.
Anyway. I would kill that evil thing.