Now that a BIG BUG

Post #289,874 by Bman 7/27/07 12:23:10 AM Reply	Now that a BIG BUG how would you like to wake up and find this on you [link\|http://www.schools.ash.org.au/murrumba/inspace/images/goliath.jpg\|http://www.schools.a...mages/goliath.jpg] "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Post #289,897 by Lily 7/27/07 11:56:29 AM Reply	As long as it is not a spider I can handle it.
Post #289,898 by Lily 7/27/07 11:56:37 AM Reply	As long as it is not a spider I can handle it.
Post #289,899 by Lily 7/27/07 11:57:37 AM 7/27/07 11:58:23 AM Reply	I had to say it twice for emphasis And no, I am not drunk. Edited by Lily July 27, 2007, 11:58:23 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #289,905 by jbrabeck 7/27/07 1:49:21 PM Reply	Yet? .................................................. ;-) A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
Post #289,914 by Bman 7/27/07 3:00:57 PM Reply	Re: I had to say it twice for emphasis I think i will be soon "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Post #289,915 by Lily 7/27/07 3:12:18 PM Reply	Why? Having a hard day, honey? I'll have a couple glass of wine tonight and then you can call me and we'll incoherently blather at each other for a while. What could be more fun?
Post #289,919 by Ashton 7/27/07 5:40:50 PM Reply	Tarantula ~ 1/3 that length was brought into work by owner. I let it crawl up my arm, too (I mean.. the owner was still breathing - - ) Mentioned here, before. Pretty heavy for size; I recall it felt just like 'little pussycat feet', and said so. He/it came up almost to my upper arm; my two eyes locked on his (7? 17?) then he pulled a Uey and sauntered back down. Not a great conversationalist. This may not be advisable for all sub-species, I gather. But then, I like (most) snakes, too - confirmed at a herpetarium in Miami, when attendant wrapped one around my waist: it was Hot there (duh) and he was Cool. It's good to test 'aversions' up-front IMO == fewer things next to keep in the Worry sack. More room for ___ Our Squash! It, NOW!! instinct appears to be a bit nutzo; OTOH there IS the Brown Recluse - so, back to the crap shoot.
Post #289,920 by bepatient 7/27/07 5:56:06 PM Reply	As long as you don't surprise them tarantulas are ok. Get alot of them at the folks place. I'm less inclined to forgive the black widow that pert near got me when painting the fence down in Mo-town. Snakes...I like snakes. Our dorm pet was a python...that ended up being the Delta house pet and then finally a zoo exhibit when it hit 12 feet. Turns out it really liked lab rats :-) Used to walk the quad with it wrapped once about the shoulders and hanging to near ground level on both sides. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #289,923 by Lily 7/27/07 6:06:27 PM Reply	I would pee my pants. Snakes I like. I'm partial to all herps, in fact, but I'll leave it to someone else to express fondness for the arachnids. I saw a patient at the hospital a couple weeks ago. She was in for a shunt revision but had recently been bitten on her backside by a brown recluse. The wound was necrotic. It was nasty. Could you imagine being bit on your butt by a venomous spider?
Post #289,927 by inthane-chan 7/27/07 6:44:17 PM Reply	I can think of MUCH worse places to be bit.
Post #289,930 by rcareaga 7/27/07 7:39:13 PM Reply	bit on the butt by a venomous spider I've read an account of the very thing (although the victim was only aware of it ex post facto): Many years ago the distinguished SF Chronicle columnist [link\|http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/\|Jon Carroll] wrote about visiting his local Caesarcare HMO facility during the now fondly remembered eighties, an era of peace and enlightened social and economic policies (measured—only—against the deranged standards of Bushamerica) to have an abcess on his nether parts looked at. Drawers were dropped and position assumed on the examining table. I paraphrase from distant memory. Medic 1: So, I like your columns. JC: Uh, thank you. Medic 1: Yeah, I particularly liked the one—ah, what have we here? JC: Excuse me? Medic 1: Very interesting. JC: Excuse me? Medic 1: Very interesting. Hey, Fred! Come over here and take a look at this! JC: Um...is something wrong? Medic 1: Fred, this is Jon Carroll, you know? The Chronicle columnist? Medic 2: Pleased to meet you. Hey, I love your stuff! Medic 1: So...whaddya think? Brown recluse? Medic 2: I liked the one about—oh, yeah. Unmistakable. I liked the one about— JC: Pardon me, would that be the "deadly brown recluse?" Medic 1: Think you and Cathy can make it over Saturday night? JC: Excuse me, but about the brown recluse? Medic 2: Oh, not a problem. Listen, that time you called Reagan a "moral midget"... —and so on and so forth. My kid brother had about the same off-puttingly nonchalant response from Navy medics at Fallon NAS when he showed up for treatment after a rattlesnake bite received at the conclusion of a tennis match. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #289,936 by admin 7/27/07 9:22:15 PM Reply	Reading a bit about the recluse... Seems it's one of the most (dangerously) over-diagnosed bites, and that often the actual malady is something completely different that needs a radically different treatment approach than the "make them comfortable and wait" schedule used for brown recluse bites. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #289,953 by folkert 7/28/07 10:57:21 AM Reply	Just where is the "home range" of the Brown Recluse? Does anyone think that? Does anyone also understand that California IS NOT a native area for it? There might be transients or hop-a-longs in packages/boxes/crates from the area... but they just don't survive very well out side the temperature/humidity/environment on their own. Oh well. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`
Post #289,973 by admin 7/28/07 5:03:37 PM Reply	A few transients... ... could not in any way account for the hundreds of "brown recluse bites" they get outside of the home range, either. :-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #289,983 by Lily 7/28/07 8:14:37 PM Reply	Now THIS... This is what I would not want to come to: [link\|http://www.fazed.org/content/clock_spider/\|http://www.fazed.org...ent/clock_spider/]
Post #289,984 by Another Scott 7/28/07 8:34:46 PM Reply	Pretty. In Austin, Texas, it's quite common for [link\|http://www.greglasley.net/medgecko.html\|these little fellows] to get inside apartment buildings, so I hear. Cheers, Scott.
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