Spiders

[dagar]

In an older thread I revealed my disgust and fear of these filthy creatures. I was reading an article about the Brown Recluse spider that is all over the south from Florida to Arizona. The article said there are more sightings of them than ever before. Do any of you have these where you live. We have some pretty big ones in the north but nothing like these.

I have attached a picture of one and the consequences of it's bite. OUCH

[h4x0l2]

while i was in florida I saw one of those lil bastards....they are really aggressive...

[dagar]

Actually the article said they won't attack unless they're disturbed. Hence the name recluse.

[h4x0l2]

Originally Posted by dagar

Actually the article said they won't attack unless they're disturbed. Hence the name recluse.

it's possible i pissed the thing off...I was vaccuming and used the hose on an overhang in the kitchen...then the thing started running like a bat outta hell on the side of the overhang...freaked me out...I dropped the damn vaccume and went online to find out what to do...I knew what kind it was, I just didnt know a safe way to get rid of it...the vaccume didn't seem like a good idea since it wouldn't kill it...last thing i wanted to do is see the thing crawlin out of the hose while im chillen trying to eat some dinner...

[unforgiven]

At the end of last May got bit by one on the stomach. Got pretty freakin sick. I ended up losing around 20 lbs. Then I'll be damned if in August or September got bit again. My system is still all f*cked up. I've just recently started putting on weight again.

[h4x0l2]

Originally Posted by unforgiven

At the end of last May got bit by one on the stomach. Got pretty freakin sick. I ended up losing around 20 lbs. Then I'll be damned if in August or September got bit again. My system is still all f*cked up. I've just recently started putting on weight again.

holy crap man, did you have to get to the hospital?

[unforgiven]

Originally Posted by h4x0l2

holy crap man, did you have to get to the hospital?

Yeak, first time I went to this dumba## doc b/c mine was out of town. He told me it was staff and the swelling was somthing else gave me antibiotics and sent me home. The night my leg, yes my leg began to swell so bad you could feel the skin stretching.Went to hospital Hospital doc said they wasn't sure but the doc was probably right and the oral antibiotics hadn't kicked in yet and infection was moving to the leg, closest joint. Give me a shot and anti-inflamatories. Next day my doctor gets back to town tells me to come straight over. He looks and says fiddle back, gives me different meds calls the other doc and hospital and goes ape shit. Meds started working within a couple days.

[unforgiven]

Crap that was a long story!

[h4x0l2]

sounds like quite a scary thing...

Spiders freak me out...

I'm glad you got the treatment fast enough where it didn't develop into a more serious problem.

[unforgiven]

My leg in an hour to two hours time swole so much you couldn't see my knee or ankle. My doc said the poison had set in the joints. Plus, felt like I had the flu the whole time!