Woman bitten by spider loses 10 lbs. of skin

[William33 110]

Scary....Who would wash that pan now....from the poll earlier?

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16160932/wid/11915773?GT1=8816

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sounds a bit like the Brown Recluse.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

OMG! It sounds like a fairly rare occurance. I'm wondering how often the hobo spider decides to crawl into bed with people... brrrrr...

[kitkat1 5]

EEEWWWW

While we're posting icky stories:

Chilean boy born with fetus in his stomach: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15879296/wid/11915773/

[ILIKEALLCAPS 0]

'tis the season for them to start coming inside. Fortunately they have a tendency to run in exactly the same pattern that makes a cat go "ooooh! Toyfood!"

With 4 cats, we're good.

The IT manager at a former job got bit on the thigh. He was lucky in that he only had his whole thigh baloon up....and he lost a circle of skin about the size of a 50 cent piece.

So yeah, not the friendliest of household companions.

[eric&gen 0]

Damn i hate spiders. Every time i see one in my house i go nuts lol. ill tear up the place to find the little sucker and smash it with my foot lol.

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

Damn i hate spiders. Every time i see one in my house i go nuts lol. ill tear up the place to find the little sucker and smash it with my foot lol.

get a cat. cats love to play with spiders

[de_sjiem 0]

true.. cats will play with any kind of bug that is moving.. I hardly see any bugs in our house.. and if i do, there is usually a cat staring at it..

[Marc and Olga 0]

Sounds a bit like the Brown Recluse.

That's what I thought too, the story says the recluse spiders don't live in that part of the country though.

[Sinergy 3]

about the fetus inside the baby boy

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Hmmm. An acquaintance of mine is also suffering from a spider bite that she received in her bed and it is having a similar effect. She is still in recovery and it is expected to take several months! They haven't identified the spider to her but told her it is like a brown recluse spider bite - although there are not supposed to be any brown recluses in her part of California. I will let her know about the hobo spider - maybe it lives in her area. Not a nice thing at all.

We have brown recluses and black widows here in Georgia. Spiders are my one remaining phobia - I used to not be able to move at all and just shake when I was a child and saw a spider. It isn't so bad now - I can move - and move quickly to kill it - but I still shake uncontrollably for about half an hour afterwards. We do have 5 cats - but black widows and brown recluses can be fatal if they bite a cat so generally, if the cats find a a spider inside I move quickly to kill it and get it away from them just in case. That is why I like the garden spiders here - they are so big that there is no mistaking them for one of the poisonous spiders and I don't have to freak out with worry.

My husband was bitten by a spider a number of years ago and it swelled up and became abcessed. He never identified the spider nor remembers getting bitten, however, the site will become re-abcessed every now and again and go through the same problems he originally experienced when it was first bitten. I don't think the toxin remains but the area suffers some sort of permanent reaction that can be re-affected even if not re-bitten. Not a nice situation at all.

Edited December 13, 2006 by Kathryn41

[almaty 19]

damn...spiders and fetus linked in the same thread..only on vj....

[eric&gen 0]

What is a hobo spider? Is it a type of spider that begs for money on the street corner??!!!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hmmm. An acquaintance of mine is also suffering from a spider bite that she received in her bed and it is having a similar effect. She is still in recovery and it is expected to take several months! They haven't identified the spider to her but told her it is like a brown recluse spider bite - although there are not supposed to be any brown recluses in her part of California. I will let her know about the hobo spider - maybe it lives in her area. Not a nice thing at all.

We have brown recluses and black widows here in Georgia. Spiders are my one remaining phobia - I used to not be able to move at all and just shake when I was a child and saw a spider. It isn't so bad now - I can move - and move quickly to kill it - but I still shake uncontrollably for about half an hour afterwards. We do have 5 cats - but black widows and brown recluses can be fatal if they bite a cat so generally, if the cats find a a spider inside I move quickly to kill it and get it away from them just in case. That is why I like the garden spiders here - they are so big that there is no mistaking them for one of the poisonous spiders and I don't have to freak out with worry.

My husband was bitten by a spider a number of years ago and it swelled up and became abcessed. He never identified the spider nor remembers getting bitten, however, the site will become re-abcessed every now and again and go through the same problems he originally experienced when it was first bitten. I don't think the toxin remains but the area suffers some sort of permanent reaction that can be re-affected even if not re-bitten. Not a nice situation at all.

If you do a google image search on Brown Recluse Bite its all there in 16 million color, 80ox600 resolution. Best not be eating when you look at it - its extremely nasty.

[Carola 0]

It reminds me when my hubby was bitten on the lower part of the leg by a black widow few months ago, jeez he turned totally weak and his skin got purple and black, that was scary indeed and it took him about a month to recover.