Brown Recluse OUCH!
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From: Paradise Found!
Originally Posted by I6power
What exactly do the brown recluses look like? I just got back from a camping trip and me and my buddys all had to kill a bunch of brown spiders while we took down our tents. Also, i bought a car recently and when i was working on the brakes, i found a lot of spiders. None of them got me, luckily. I hate those little buggers when they sneek up on me they make me jump.
P.s. to the people that have been bitten. How did you know to go to the hospital after you were bit? Apparently it hurt pretty bad?
P.s. to the people that have been bitten. How did you know to go to the hospital after you were bit? Apparently it hurt pretty bad?
When I got bit, it felt like a small scratch, I was carrying in firewood for my mom. Went to school and was "scratching" my arm [had a long-sleeved shirt on] the teacher noticed and sent me to the school nurse. I was bitten right over a vein and the vein was BLACK all the way to my armpit. Nurse FREEKED OUT, called my dad, he came and took me to the hospital. The doc's FREEKED OUT, and admitted me to the hospital, and FREEKED ME OUT [I was only 10!]
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From: North west La
I knew to go to the doc when I got a look at my back & saw the huge swelling around the bite & by the fever I was running. My first bite made me real sick. I only waited 3 days before I went in. It didn't hurt when I was bitten but that changed fast.
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From: Michigan
I6power,click on that link that hawk posted,and then click on the tab at the top that says "The Spider".It will tell you all about the recluse and shows what it looks like.And one other thing,I guess, from listening to my coworker and reading some of those stories that are on that link,the initial bite doesnt hurt.its after the venom starts taking effect thats when the real pain starts.
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From: Orange County, California
We have brown recluse spiders all around here. Never leave you clothes in a pile on the floor and then put them on. They like piles of clothes on the floor and shoes. A few weeks ago i left my a pair of shorts on the floor. In he morning I got out of bed and put them on without checking them (I knew better too), walked into the living room and noticed one of those spiders on my thigh. I flicked it off and killed it.
A friend of mine did the same thing exactly except it was a pair of sweats he left on the floor and he was bit on the leg. He had to have a good size chunk of meat removed from his leg.
A friend of mine did the same thing exactly except it was a pair of sweats he left on the floor and he was bit on the leg. He had to have a good size chunk of meat removed from his leg.
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From: Coastal Georgia
We have them here in GA, too, but have never personally seen one (at least I don't think so). We do have Black and Brown Widows, tho, and have killed lots of those around the house. Always, always shake my shoes out before I put them on, and wear rubber tipped gloves outside working in the yard. They love to get up under the bottom of the siding, where it meets the house. Have killed many there. Also like pine straw beds, so have to be careful in them, since down here we use a lot of pine straw as mulch.
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
another potentially bad spider is the wolf spider.
most people are not bothered by them, but they are poisonous, and if you are allergic to them like i am, they can kill you.
most people are not bothered by them, but they are poisonous, and if you are allergic to them like i am, they can kill you.
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On December 22nd 1967 after being out of school for about an hour and half I was on the roof of the concrete plant cleaning frost off the inside of the 250 ft conveyor belt that brings sand and gravel up to the bins.
After applying the calcium chloride and water solution to the whole thing..I took a gunny sack and wrapped it around my hand to wipe down the belt.
while doing this I didn't realize belt fasteners that ties the ends of the belt together were rapidly approaching and it ended up catching the gunny sack which pulled my arm in between the belt and drive roller, which went round and round for what seems 10 minutes while I screamed for HELP. My fingers were 6 " away from the kill switch
so shutting it off myself wasn't an option.
I was barely 17 when this happened.
So many nerves were damaged..I lost the use of my right arm for months ..having to learn how to write with my left ..I became amidextrous....
6 months later I broke my leg in a Motorcycle Accident.
Those were the days
I still have nightmares about this two incidents.
After applying the calcium chloride and water solution to the whole thing..I took a gunny sack and wrapped it around my hand to wipe down the belt.
while doing this I didn't realize belt fasteners that ties the ends of the belt together were rapidly approaching and it ended up catching the gunny sack which pulled my arm in between the belt and drive roller, which went round and round for what seems 10 minutes while I screamed for HELP. My fingers were 6 " away from the kill switch
so shutting it off myself wasn't an option.
I was barely 17 when this happened.
So many nerves were damaged..I lost the use of my right arm for months ..having to learn how to write with my left ..I became amidextrous....
6 months later I broke my leg in a Motorcycle Accident.
Those were the days
I still have nightmares about this two incidents.
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From: The Armpit Of America!
Just last week my friend had to go to the hospital and get a quarter-half dollar sized chunk taken out of his right calf. They had to go really deep into the muscle to get the whole infected area. It's great, while he's doing stuff the bandage will start oozing and he'll have this little river of puss runnin' down his calf. He was tellin' me a couple days ago that he started leaking blood w/out realizing it and ended up tracking it through the house and everything. Ah, good times!! Man, I'm thankful I've never been bitten.
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From: Indiana
Ok, yall now made me mad with that pic!!! Thanks alot, im terrified of spiders...and I have to sleep on the floor tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I will have nightmears...*shudders* that are stay up all night!
groses me out...
I think I will have nightmears...*shudders* that are stay up all night!
groses me out...
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From: north west new jersey
we have a mix of brown recluses, copper heads, and rattlers here. the wife with her being a ccu nurse comes home with major stories of how close people came to death from bites. and one buddy down in FL. got bitten on his bare six in the woods by a brown down there . guys you don't want see how much skin he had to have removed off his six.
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From: Other side of the sunrise
I did a search on brown recluse spiders a few weeks ago, as I had heard that they are very common. I found some pictures of them and yes, I have seen them many times. What I found was that they are very common, yet actual bites are not, considering just how common they are. What I read was that they go into places that are dark and where there is no activity. One example of a more common bite occurrance was people having a pair of pants laying around, un disturbed, then picking them up and putting them on. Wammo, BR Bite!
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From: Valley of the Sun AZ
What I do not get is why someone would wait until you have necrotic tissue development to go and get help.
P.S. if you do not like things with fangs, stingers, teeth, or pincers stay way from Arizona. They keep on telling you of all of the danger around here, but it is most likely a mistaken identity, fear or opportunistic strike.
P.S. if you do not like things with fangs, stingers, teeth, or pincers stay way from Arizona. They keep on telling you of all of the danger around here, but it is most likely a mistaken identity, fear or opportunistic strike.
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From: Billings Montana
When I lived in Nevada, I was driving down a dirt road going bird hunting when I saw the road moving up ahead of me. I stopped and the whole road was COVERED in Tarantula's. I skeeved me out so bad I did the manliest thing I could and screamed like a 12 year old girl, locked the truck door, (as if the spiders could jump up, open the door and car-jack me), and floored it the Hell outta there.
Up here in Billings, we have Wolf spiders that carry their 1000's of babies on them and when you squish them, they all scatter, leaving you to itch and scratch, after screaming like a 12 year old girl, for hours.
Up here in Billings, we have Wolf spiders that carry their 1000's of babies on them and when you squish them, they all scatter, leaving you to itch and scratch, after screaming like a 12 year old girl, for hours.