[PGR88]

My spidey-sense is tingling

[dead]

Now he must choose if he will use these new powers for good or for evil.

[SJSAMPLE]

"Walks Again"

Yeah.
On walls.

[ClearCase_guy]

Apparently, the spider injected him with embryonic stem cells. I can think of no other possible cure.

[beebuster2000]

so soon? and the bill was just signed yesterday.

[Drawsing]

It is hard to tell from this story whether the spider bite had anything to do with his recovery...other than, maybe, the “spasm”.

[TruthWillWin]

[concerned about politics]

The 48-year-old former boxer and dancer

What the....?????

[B-Chan]

[shibumi]

"Then the spider bite. A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months."

Gee, I hate to be a party pooper, but before anybody goes out and has themselves bitten by a potentially deadly spider, you might just want to try the eight months of therapy first.

[auntyfemenist]

Is this kind of like the lady who got stung by bees and her arthritis went away?

[valkyry1]

About the only good result I ever heard of out of a Brown Recluse bite.

[i are a cowboy]

Maybe that is what really happened to Chris Matthews

[Boucheau]

The Brown Recluse (Fiddleback, or Violin Spider) has a nasty bite, folks.

Sometimes causing horrible scarring, loss of extremeties and even death.

They are hunting spiders (transient) and avoid human contact.

In short, they are badass and very good at what they do.

You do not want to get bitten by this one.



From Wikipedia:

Recluse spiders build irregular webs that frequently include a shelter consisting of disorderly threads. These spiders frequently build their webs in woodpiles and sheds, closets, garages, plenum, cellars and other places that are dry and generally undisturbed. They seem to favor cardboard when dwelling in human residences, possibly because it mimics the rotting tree bark which they inhabit naturally. They also tend to be found in shoes, inside dressers, in bed sheets of infrequently used beds, in stacks of clothes, behind baseboards, behind pictures and near furnaces. The common source of human-recluse contact is during the cleaning of these spaces, when their isolated spaces are suddenly disturbed and the spider feels threatened. Unlike most web weavers, they leave these webs at night to hunt. Males will move around more when hunting with the female spiders tending to remain nearer to their webs.

I hear tell that hospitals in the midwest are getting an increasing number of people with recluse bites. I don't know why.

[Larry Lucido]

his 14-year-old twin daughters

Well, at least he was able to do that during the past 20 years.

[bvw]

Wow! What a marvelous act of G-d! Or two acts ... both are marvelous.

[theDentist]

Mebbe that Brown Recluse wanted the chair all to himself. No matter what reason, I’m sure he’s thanking Him. And researchers should be looking into what’s in these Brown Recluse’s venom.

[television is just wrong]

wonder what kind of spider.

[bgill]

Maybe it was a spider that got to Chris Matthews’ leg.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I wonder if anyone has experimented with spider venom
or other venom for nerve “awakening”