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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Stormchild on July 01, 2005, 09:12:39 PM
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Woke up this morning in a bad situation.
Had been bitten on earlobe by spider about a week ago, while I slept. This happens.
Particularly venomous bite, probably from sac spider. Their bites tend to necrotise and take a while to heal, surprisingly toxic considering they [the spiders] are pinhead-sized for the most part. Some species also have septic bites.
Had it under control with topical antibiotics and hydrocortisone, but this morning when I woke up it had gone badly septic during the night, with spreading erythema down the side of my neck, swollen lymph nodes, localised fever, and - most frightening - a headache on that side of my head and 'ice-pick' earache type pain in ear itself.
Went directly to doc instead of to work. Am on antibiotics. Feel a tad better, but very shaky. Frightened, of course; this kind of adventure kills people. Prayers welcomed gratefully. Live alone, am very much alone indeed, and the cats need their mother.
thanks all.
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Stormchild, poor you!
That sounds nasty. And it isn't nice not to have someone else to say, Go To The Hospital! So I will fill in that role.
Take Care of Yourself! We Need You Here! Go Lie Down! Eat Something! Have a Rest! Call In Sick! Drat that old Spider!
Plucky
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Stormy,
How dreadful. Lucky for you that you are knowledgeable enough to know what had happened. I've never even heard of such a spider. I know that scary feeling of being alone. We're here for you kiddo. Hope you start feeling better.
I miss you.
Hugs and blessings,
Brigid
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Oh, Stormchild. What a terrible thing to happen. I can only imagine how uncomfortable and frightening that must be. Please take your medicine religiously, rest as much as you possibly can, and keep us posted on how you're feeling. The cats do indeed need you, and so do we.
(((((Stormchild)))))
daylily
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You are making me aracnophobic (sp?).
It just goes to show you how careful we need to be about who or what gets into our bed.
Sorry about my rather twisted humor in your moment of suffering but I just could not help myself - I do hope that do can find a giggle in this rather serious event..
Johnimo
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((((Stormy)))))
OUCH and more OUCH. I am so glad you had the smarts to get to the doctor. What a scary thing. I am sending you: one pain free head, one no longer swollen half head, and two(?) happy to have you looking normal kitties!!
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Poor dear Stormchild, that sounds like a very frightening experience, and I'm so pleased to hear that you've got the necessary treatment. PLease take good care, and rest up a bit so that the antibiotics have a chance to work well.
You are, and will stay, in my thoughts this weekend,
Much love,
Lara.
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Prayers welcomed gratefully. Live alone, am very much alone indeed, and the cats need their mother.
thanks all.
What a terrible thing to happen, I am really sorry and will light a candle for you. This is going to sound dim, but would a mosquito net over your bed help for the future? I am all for prevention, and for avoidance of the same thing happening again.
I am very tolerant of spiders in general, because in the UK we have none that have sharp enough 'teeth' to bite humans, but my daughter is terrified of them. I don't think I had better tell her what has happened to you!!
Sending you healing angels so that you are not alone any more.
C.
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So sorry Stormy.
I know you have your kittys but that had to be very scary to wake up and find yourself in that condition.
Feel better soon.
((Stormchild))
I'll see you in about two weeks.
Mia
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((((((Stormchild)))))) Take care. Sending positive thoughts and healing your way.
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Stormie,
Praying that your healing takes place quickly. I'm glad you got the antibiotics.
bunny
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Storm lots of healing thoughts heading over the ocean. Wishing those white corpuscles (sp) are fighting away and helping the meds do their job. Amass body’s army, attack invasion and defeat the interloping invader. i can see it happening now. (((Stormchild)))
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grateful thanks all. feeling better this morning, still a bit draggy, and it'll be at least a week before i'm out of the woods on this, but i do feel a lot of warm positive energy surrounding me.
thanks again, so much.
jophil - eeyi, here i am complaining about spiders when you live in the worst place in the world for them. white-tails, funnelwebs, redbacks, you name it, yikes. most of what I've learned about spider bite reactions has come from web sites maintained in OZ and NZ. Your guys are the world experts.
october - unfortunately these little monsters are so tiny that they can get into houses through the cracks in the wall where the windows are set in, it's impossible to keep them out of anything that isn't hermetically sealed. they rarely rove over sleeping people, but now and then one will. Last time I got this bad a bite was six years ago maybe.
bunny, long, mia, mum, Lara, daylily, Brigid, plucky, portia - thanks. I'm envisioning myself surrounded by angels, and each one holds a sword and shield, and each one is wearing an armband that carries one of your names (plus october and jophil). Your good thoughts and prayers send me an angel apiece, and they're giving credit where credit is due. Which is their nature, isn't it, the dear and blessed things? ;-)
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Hey ((((Stormy)))))
I'm so glad you are feeling much better! :D Praying for your complete recovery. Maybe your body has built up enough immunity to that kind of spider where you won't get such a bad reaction ever again...at from that critter.
Butterfly
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i always come late to this stuff, off-list so much right now..... take care of yourself stormy. this is the last thing you need rite now, huh!.
(((((((s)))))))
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Hey ((((Stormy)))))
I'm so glad you are feeling much better! :D Praying for your complete recovery. Maybe your body has built up enough immunity to that kind of spider where you won't get such a bad reaction ever again...at from that critter.
Butterfly
... or alternatively, maybe you will turn into Spiderwoman, with superhuman powers, and be able to climb up the sides of buildings.
Not sure what benefit that would be to the world, but it might be fun. Hope you are continuing to recover. And get those windows and doors hermetically sealed, won't you? :lol:
((((Stormy))))
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Oh ((((((Stormy))))))!!!
How nasty!!! Glad you're feeling better. I will pray for you!
Picture me with a big filter mask, wearing a wet suit type exterminator gear/outfit, carrying a large tank of teeny weeny tiny spider poison, holding a long hose and spraying with a thin nozzle......around every crack and crevace, under bed springs and into all drains, around corners and over every bump in the floor!!
Stupid spiders!!! :!:
GFN
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GFN, your image made me laugh, it is so close to the truth.
Insecticide doesn't work so well on spiders, and the stuff that works well on them isn't very nice to cats. So... I use a spray that goes right into the baseboard cracks and carpet edges and stays there, but mostly I have a little backpack vacuum and a crevice tool and boric acid in the vacuum bag. Or a wet Kleenex and a growl. [HAS to be wet, the little horrors can scuttle up into the creases in a dry one, drop out, and escape. GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr...]
But the way I get psyched up to 'do' the place is... I think of Sigourney Weaver with the flamethrower in Aliens, going after the queen alien's eggs, or I think of Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride, going after his father's murderer: "My name is Stormchild. You injured my kitty. Prepare to die!"
Silly, but it gets me through it.
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Hey Stormy:
"My name is Stormchild. You injured my kitty. Prepare to die!"
Silly, but it gets me through it.
Hey! Whatever works!! Go Stormy Go!!! Get those little suckers!!! :evil:
I'm on my way.....got a big jug of boric acid and vacuum cleaner with more power than bat man's car!!! (Plus....the longest crevace tool you'll ever see!! :D :evil: :evil: ).
Scram you stinkin' spiders!!!
Drink lot's of fluid too, K Stormy? To flush out all the dead ones! 8)
GFN
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Stormy,
Call me dense, but are you currently living in the jungle or what, that you have these nasty varmits entering your premises? I've never heard of anyone around my neck of the woods being bitten by poisonous spiders (they must not like the boring midwest :shock: ).
I'm happy to hear you are on the mend and your kitties are getting their mommy back. I hope it continues.
Blessings,
Brigid
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Ok....... speaking of necks in woods and weird spider stories I gotta tell ya this one!
Waaaaaaaay up here in the great white north, not too long ago, there was a girl I knew, who was getting married. Two weeks before her wedding she was busy washing fruit at the kitchen sink (at her mom's house-don't ask :roll: ), cleaning bananas to be exact, (up here they tell us to wash all fruit, even bananas 'cause you never know what you might find :shock: ). Anyway, she had a t-towel slung over her shoulder but the darn t-towel slipped off, into the sink, for a moment, so she picked it back up and threw it back over her shoulder, and continued cleaning the fruit.
A few minutes later she felt something pinch her neck but it didn't really hurt and so she paid it no mind. Half an hour later, her neck felt all tingly and sore so she looked in the mirror and saw a small red dot and the skin around it ...oh say...5-6 inches ....all reddish and puffy. An hour later, she was covered in red dots, red, red skin, which puffed out from below her ear to below her under arm pit. Off to emerg she went, hysterically!!
Guest what it was? A black widow spider!!! :shock: :shock: Yessum! Up here in these here parts apparently there are plenty of 'em, according to the doc in emerg. They've been here well over 15 years now....came in on....you got it.......fruit from some hot country (not to be named so as to not place blame where it can't be known....very un-N that doc was). I guess those critters don't really need real hot places to live or somehow they've adapted to cold, cold winters.....or......I hate to think which cracks in which places those fellas go to hide from the cold!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
Anyhow....the poor girly was put on whatever meds they put a person on for that and she watched her skin turn all kinds of weird colours finally settling on a not so lovely deep dark bluish bruisey colour, which was at it's peak just about 2 weeks later, when she was being married and which did indeed clash very well with her lovely wedding gown (as it would.....annnny wedding gown, I bet). :( :(
Poor thing. Saw her wedding pictures. She could have won America's Not so Funniest videos, had she had a video, and if there were a show like that. 8)
Which only goes to show that you never can tell what kind of spider you might find where. In other words, maybe it's not necessary, afterall to travel all the way to Auzzie's house...to meet some of the varmits native to there. All that's really needed is to purchase some product that comes from there abouts and by chance...the chance will arise. :D
Got me off bananas for quite some time after that.
And I neeeeeeeevvvvvvvvver put a t-towel over my shoulder any more, working near the sink, either!!
:D
GFN