WARNING: This post might gross you out if you dislike spiders and/or talk of open wounds…
So I went to the doctor today about my spider bite and my fears were confirmed. It is a brown recluse bite, which while not fatal is nevertheless a really bad bite to have because the center of the bite essentially starts to rot and expand outward in a ring and inward as well as all the skin cells die. The doctor gave me an oral antibiotic to take every 8 hours for the next week which is supposed to help it all heal, but she said it would also get darker and nastier as it heals. She also gave me a referral and told me see a surgeon because it could potentially need to be cut out. As much as that will suck if it happens, I would much rather have the surgeon cut a piece out of my hip rather than just watching the skin die on a daily basis and end up with some gross hole there. Blech! I’m so glad I went to have it seen about though because I would hate to think of what things might have looked like in just 1-2 more days.
If my post hasn’t grossed you out enough, you should do a brown recluse spider bite search on Google because oh my freaking god there is some SCARY and totally gross stuff out there. I saw this one woman who waited a little too long to see a doctor and had a giant hole in her stomach about the size of a coffee/tea cup saucer. *shudders*
Eww!
Get well soon!!!
I second that!
HELP! *pees in my pants* OMG! IIHK! That is so scary. I don’t dare to check it out. I’m so happy we don’t have spiders like that in Sweden. I hope you will get better real soon sweetie!
Thanks guys. It’s starting to get a little better now that I’ve got the antibiotic in my system. The whole thing is just ick x infinity because I HATE spiders. They scare me to death and to know that one crawled into my pajama bottoms while I was sleeping and bit me just freaks me out.
I never thought about the possibility of spiders biting me before! This is really horrible! Get well soon!
Maybe I’m stupid or blind and I didn’t read it but how did that happen??? I mean, what were you doing?!?
BTW, I googled it and the bite looks MEGA GROSSS. ew ew ew.
Maria: We have some icky venomous spiders here in the South and they are typically found out in woodsy areas, but I guess they can creep their way into apartment buildings too. Nasty critters! Thanks.
Ivan: I just realized that I didn’t post about how it happened, but did comment in the other post to Riikka about it. It apparently happened while I was sleeping and somehow got into my PJ bottoms. I tend to sleep in shorts and/or baggy men’s PJ bottoms, so it probably just crawled up the side of my leg and got in and out without me noticing. And that freaks me out even more because I loathe spiders and to know that one was crawling around on me in my sleep just squicks me out.
The spider bite photos on the internet are the grossest of the gross. Luckily my bite was only about the size of a quarter and thanks to my medicine is now down to the size of a dime and should be healed by next week.
Ew ew ew! Maybe you should buy some kind of repelent spray for your room. I would prefer smelling shit all night long than thinking about a fucking spider walking all over my body.
I had an exterminator spray last week, so hopefully that’ll take care of any other unwanted creepy crawlies.