A summer reminder for those in the south

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I got a call this morning that my son had gone to the hospitol.
Well he is home now , even if not feeling well.

It seems he woke up early this morning in pain and went to check because it was right in his groin.

He had gotten bit with a brown recluse spider in his sleep. He had to go in and get it cleaned out and packed at the hospitol

For those that dont know, a brown recluse is a small brown spider common in the southern states. The venom will literally eat away the flesh from the inside out creating a big hole and it burns .

Now he had been spraying for spiders recently and this may have driven it out of where it was hiding,

We tend not to think of this stuff daily down here , but it is a good reminder to spray , spray , spray . Now they are very active this time of year especially.

So go grab that insect can and go to it!

 

[DemonCowboy]

whew - what a place to get bit too - i've always been faster to spot them than them me - is there an antivenom/antihistimine for those bites to reduce their effects?

 

[Fudgey]

With the dry heat we have been having here they are coming in our garage. We got three on one sticky trap in one day. DH has been bitten three times, once on the hand, that one was bad his whole hand swelled up like a ballon.
Most people don't even know they have been bitten until the bite starts getting read and infected.

 

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Actually I dont know what they pack them with, they open it up and pack them with gauze soaked in something after they drain them and flush them out.
I literally leaves a hole in you.
The venom literally disintergrates the flesh. It is gross to say it, but true.
He has been bitten twice now and my dil has been bitten once.

But ya he got bit in a really bad spot poor guy,
He is not a happy camper and not moving much at this point .

They look like a rather innocent spider, small and brown. Hard to spot or notice them.

Yes most wont even know they got bit until it is swelling or red, his had already turned black by the time he got up to look.

I had hubby out spraying our lania today already LOL

 

[DemonCowboy]

poor guy - best wishes towards u'r son - damn - of all the places he could have been bit - damn!!

 

[Jules22871]

One problem with a brown recluse is that the venom may travel before settling in a spot. That is part of what causes so many of the problems from the bites. Since it is red or swollen away from the bite spot, people don't make the association fast enough to prevent the skin and surrounding tissues from becoming necrotic.

 

[Sallana]

Boy howdy am I glad I live in New York. We don't get hurricanes, tornadoes, random freaking fires, spiders that bite you and rot your GD flesh. We just get cold, then colder, then hot - repeat. I <3 New York.

 

[Fudgey]

Dang the only thing we don't get here is the hurricanes.

 

[Sallana]

Dang the only thing we don't get here is the hurricanes.

Hurricanes are NOTHING compared to the power of wind sweeping down the plain.

 

[GtrSoloist]

I'm sorry your son had to go through that. I'm glad he's doing well.

In this G-d forsaken state (I still can't figure out why I moved here,) we have bigger problems with flea's, tick's, mosquito's, errant snakes, and the occasional scorpion. Spiders too, but I like them, they kill other stuff and tend to leave people alone, same for wasps around here.

I will have to be extra careful when I clean out the garage though... thanks for the reminder.

 

[DemonCowboy]

Dang the only thing we don't get here is the hurricanes.

amen - and i was out in no-man's land an hr west of OKC and i'd encountered more black widows and recluses there than anywhere else i've been (and a few copperheads in tall grass - luckily wasn't bit but they could have warned me they were there sooner)

 

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Thanks guys and gals for the good wishes. I will call him again tomarrow and see how he is doing. His wife is home from work now so he is ok.

She will take good care of him tonight. I am so creeped out though I keep looking around the house now for spiders LOL.

Oh yes , we have deadly spiders, anacondas, the tiny rattle snake, corel snakes, heck a lot of poisenous snakes , even some poisenuse plants. Alligators, bears, panthers, the occasional escaped monkey. This place is a zoo!!

 

[Sallana]

Thanks guys and gals for the good wishes. I will call him again tomarrow and see how he is doing. His wife is home from work now so he is ok.

She will take good care of him tonight. I am so creeped out though I keep looking around the house now for spiders LOL.

Oh yes , we have deadly spiders, anacondas, the tiny rattle snake, corel snakes, heck a lot of poisenous snakes , even some poisenuse plants. Alligators, bears, panthers, the occasional escaped monkey. This place is a zoo!!

..... Move?!

 

[keyzygirl]

Even the fish here have teeth!I hope your son is okay.

 

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Ya the fish have teeth!
Move , ya I would like to , never dragging hubby and my kids out of here though .
Then again we have 80 degrees and perfect weather in the January too

 

[Jules22871]

If the hubby would go I would move back to Florida tomorrow. Been thru 2 hurricanes, and several tropical storms but I love that Ocean.

 

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Jules dont even say hurricane to me !!! Sheees! LOL
I watched one out in the gulf from work one day, 6 th floor of the building.
Scarey!! Tornados that are 50 miles wide dont make me feel secure!

Still, there are redeeming things here, the ocean being one of them

 

[DemonCowboy]

Ya the fish have teeth!
Move , ya I would like to , never dragging hubby and my kids out of here though .
Then again we have 80 degrees and perfect weather in the January too

i call BS - it's too hot and humid here to call it perfect weather - it gets 80 degrees in january here ffs!!!! all year the AC runs!!

lol - couldn't resist my rant about the weather here - no offense intended to anyone - except the weather!!!

 

[Jules22871]

I lived down there fro 5 years. We were on our way down there when we had our accident. I still haven't made it back there yet,lol Ahh well, there is always next summer.

We took our Thanksgiving dinner to the beach one year and went snorkeling. It was a awesome day!

 

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hey dc , doesnt it cool down to like 80 or even less in the winter up there?