Bite site look like these pictures?

Post #113,286 by a6l6e6x 8/9/03 11:03:54 AM Reply	Bite site look like these pictures? [link\|http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic547.htm#target1\|Pictures]. Not that I know anything about this other than we have the brown recluse spider in the area. Alex A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
Post #113,295 by boxley 8/9/03 11:39:30 AM Reply	looks the same except for the pussy white spot in the middle, didnt have that. Sank a needle into the center but no gusher arrived. Will watch for gengrene, no health insurance so a walkin clinic is out of the question. Received the bite in bed as that is the only time in the last couple of days I have been shirtless. The treatment seems all over the map, have a boat load of 500 meg amox I might try as antibiotics are givn at times. thanx, bill questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #113,296 by deSitter 8/9/03 12:08:50 PM 8/9/03 12:15:45 PM Reply	Re: looks the same except for the pussy white spot Recluse spiders (loxosceles) don't seem to be a major issue in Florida, but you have this nasty looking bastard: [link\|http://woodypest.ifas.ufl.edu/brwidow.htm\|http://woodypest.ifa...l.edu/brwidow.htm] The Brown Widow (latrodectus). Also check out [link\|http://doacs.state.fl.us/~pi/enpp/ento/venomousspiders.htm\|http://doacs.state.f...nomousspiders.htm] (Possibly relevant - Chilean recluse in Winter Haven - about 60mi east of you..[link\|http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/%7Epi/enpp/ento/loxoscel.html\|http://www.doacs.sta...nto/loxoscel.html]) -drl Edited by deSitter Aug. 9, 2003, 12:15:45 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #113,297 by Another Scott 8/9/03 12:11:27 PM Reply	You've got other options besides waiting. I'd suspect there's a free clinic in the area. Many of the walk-in clinics take credit cards. If you can't go that route, hospitals have to treat emergency cases. Call 911 if you have to. Don't wait until it's hideous before getting treatment. Best of luck! Cheers, Scott.
Post #113,298 by a6l6e6x 8/9/03 12:16:23 PM Reply	Sorry to hear that! I was hoping you'd say yours looked different. Other symptoms? o Fever o Chills o Nausea o Vomiting o Joint pain Alex A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
Post #113,299 by deSitter 8/9/03 12:18:26 PM Reply	Re: Sorry to hear that! Those can be caused by age and beer, both of which are known to affect the Boxer :) -drl
Post #113,301 by boxley 8/9/03 1:03:13 PM Reply	not yet, although treating agressivly have a moonshine poultice on now, lucky I didnt finish that mason jar, wife is out looking for epsom salts am starting 500 mil amox series 3* daily. If I can hold out til monday a reduced fee clinic is available otherwise to stick my head in the door of the emergency room is $240 plus doc fees and supplies. Will go only if it spreads beyond the arm. thanx, bill questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #113,311 by a6l6e6x 8/9/03 2:12:04 PM Reply	Well, I'll cross my fingers for ya! Alex Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Post #113,315 by deSitter 8/9/03 2:35:06 PM Reply	Re: not yet, although treating agressivly I've got a leftover Spiderman outfit if you need it :) Mabye you'll land a job doing WebX. -drl
Post #113,329 by Ashton 8/9/03 4:19:23 PM Reply	Lateral.. Know any vets? Might get some cluefulness by asking "what do you guys do for ~ (probable) spider bites?" Veterinary training IS more intensive and varied than for AMA-type folks (Much harder to get into vet school than the MD conveyor belt). Thay are also (and especially, lately) more apt to have looked intelligently at the alternatives -- and to actually have Seen what they Looked at. Y'know? this opinion via a friend who couldn't quite get in.. to a vet school, though she Really wanted to and studied her ass off; great academic records etc. - had to settle for becoming merely a dermatologist, specializing in skin diseases of the rich. Yawn. (We don't talk much of late; she's beginning to Sound like an AMA-MD, and has become a Mondo-consumer of the perks; brain-rot has set in. I predict Golf ere long..) Luck, Ashton
Post #113,337 by boxley 8/9/03 6:20:09 PM Reply	good thought but not around here. questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #113,362 by tuberculosis 8/9/03 10:26:53 PM 8/21/07 12:43:58 PM Reply	Had a friend get bit in bed - on the leg. Laid him in the hospital for a week - left him with an ugly looking divot in his shin. Flesh simply rots rather than heals. This was in the Chicago area and it was in a seldom used dorm room. Not likely to find the recluse in a regularly used area as they don't like company. Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations. --AndyBower Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:43:58 PM EDT Expand All History

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