I was stung by a scorpion here in the Ozarks, walking in a barn door, it dropped down and hammered me on the upper shoulder on the back, felt like a 2x4 with a nail in it. Ir knocked me down, I am not kidding.
Had an exquisitely painful red spot, and it did take about a month to heal. Very sore muscles, until it did.
Our builder's daughter was bitten by a brown recluse here in Camden County during the time he was building our home in ‘02. The wound was just above her elbow and grew from a pin point to a dime, then larger in just two weeks. The local hospital and doctor team feared for the worst until someone suggested taking her to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They got the bite stabilized and skin restored but today, she has a depression on the back of her arm where the flesh was destroyed.