[posterchild]

I had one bite my wrist several years ago. In the morning it was very itchy. By the afternoon it was swollen and painful. Wife was telling me to go the ER. I said ‘it’s just a flesh wound.’ An hour later I saw the red line up my arm past my elbow. I went to the ER. A simple antibiotic cured it. I had a red mark for 3+ years.

[cotton]

They found some brown recluse spiders in the hospital in Ottawa Kansas so they tore the hospital down and rebuilt.

[AlexW]

“I had one bite my wrist several years ago. In the morning it was very itchy.”
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Are you sure it was a recluse? That does not sound at all like the typical bite.