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To: VRWCmember

The weather around your area looks like a stygian thunderstorm! Hang in there!

Sorry to all subbies I haven’t been in. You know how we were talking about spiders onc day last week? Oh, and just like bees, they never bother me.

Got bit by a brown recluse according to Cyber. After four or five days, it still bright purplish and red, about a half dollar size. Didn’t even know it happened, but when I felt the itch of the bite, I put Gentramycin and a Band-Aide on it so I wouldn’t scratch it during the night. Still the size of a half dollar, but hasn’t gotten bigger.

I think I’m on my 20th life. LOL!


183 posted on 04/09/2008 4:43:54 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18; Guenevere

get with guenny on the spider bite, she had one recently too!


187 posted on 04/09/2008 6:26:58 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
As far as I know, I'd never been bitten by a spider....until 2 weeks ago.

Mine was slightly larger than a nickle and had a definite center bite with a red ring at the outer edge.

I didn't realize I had been bitten either, and when my back muscles started hurting, I slapped a hot heating pad on it....(probably fried the sucker)

I never saw the spider and when my husband started to apply some ointment to my muscles he found the bite.

The next morning I went to Urgent Care and the doctor put me on Keflex, a broad spectrum antibiotic for a week.

It's still there, but much faded now.

189 posted on 04/10/2008 4:56:38 AM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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