I had a friend get bite by one of these here in Arizona - he ended up with a chunk out of his leg...not pretty but at least they caught it in time.

and Bama - thanks for the visual of Platinum running through the crowd with just the shower curtain...funny.

Kinda like when they tell you that you can determine whether or not a snake is venomous by it's pupils....ya right....I'll check those after he's dead ;)

how wierd i was just hospitalized for this!!
 

Scary, Scary, Scary! Glad that you are ok!

These are very very dangerous, our neighbor got bit on her leg and it was so bad, they eventually had to amputate her leg. Scarey, She was sorting through her sewing fabric and she figured it was in there. I went and put wide tape on the closures of all boxes that I have stored my stuff in, to make sure they are all sealed tight so nothing can get into them.

That's one bad spider. Those of you who think they aren't in your area, beware. They are not supposed to be here, but they are. One man ended up having a seven hour surgery on his brain and nearly died...also lost a large part of his leg.

My son got bit by spider/spiders a few years back. He had huge red lines...about an inch wide...going upwards from the huge red bites. I was so afraid it was a brown recluse, but it turned out to be an aggressive house spider. He ended up in the hospital...even had vision problems from the bites and thank goodness...no lasting effects except for the scars from the bites. The doctor said if this was olden times, it would have been a death sentence for him because it was moving so quickly through his lypmph system and without antibiotics to fight it, he'd have been a goner.

I kill ANY spider I see...indoors or out. I don't like em and stomp em good! Only ones I don't mind are daddy long legs.

I'm glad!!! :D

If YOU GET BIT BY A BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER DO NOT GO TO YOUR REGULAR DOCTOR.

HEAD STRAIGHT TO A WOUND CARE CLINIC !

They have specialized medicine there that your normal doctor doesn't have or even know about!

[QUOTE=bchgirl]Kinda like when they tell you that you can determine whether or not a snake is venomous by it's pupils....ya right....I'll check those after he's dead ;)[/QUOTE]

Here here...I second this motion!

24 Bites...........
 

My husband was bitten 24 times by a brown recluse spider. He almost died! He was bitten on his forehead and the skin rotted down to his skull. He spent a week in the hospital, had to have plastic surgery and was very very sick!! I KILL EVERY SPIDER!!!!!! AND.....you better believe we are very very careful!!!!! He was bitten in Georgia, flew home to Houston where he was treated. Thank the Lord above............Please take this notice to everyone seriously! Also, my girlfriend in Albuquerque, New Mexico was also bitten by a brown recluse and she has a large hole in her calf now.

:eek: I'm getting a Lizard....


Francie

Dangitt!!
I had to read this so close to bed time. Now I am going to dream of spiders crawling all over me!!!

I live in an older trailer. Not sure why thry love it here, but they do. I have been bitten twice, and my husband once since we lived here. I was bit on the neck the first time, while sleeping. And the second time I was bitten multiple times when I rolled over on one, while I was sleeping. I was 8 months pregnant at the time and had to go to the hospital. Where I spent many hours. It was terrible. Luckily the time when I had gotten bit the second time, it bit me so many times in a row that it woke me up. It was almost like a sting feeling. Hurt pretty bad. I was lucky that he was not able to inject enough of the poison to cause this type of severe damage. But I do have scars from the bites. And my husband still has a hole in his ankle where he was bitten. These spiders are everywhere. And they are VERY hard to kill. They are immune to so many poisons. We have been buying glue traps for them. We put these where no one else can get to them. Like my kids, or the yorkies, etc. We put them in dark cool areas, and behind furniture. They are scented so that the spiders are attracted to them. PLEASE educate yourselves on these spiders, and other types of spiders in your area. You can't mess around with them at all. They love cardboard boxes, paper, dark, damp cool areas, etc. If you get bit by a spider and you don't see the spider, see a doctor. The damage can happen so fast and can even be deadly. Don't take a chance and put it off. See a doctor, because its better safe than sorry.

The doctors in Houston told us that the only thing that saved my husbands life was that there venom gets weaker every time they bite. Boy, that's a good thing........Thanks for the Arkansas warning! We kill all spiders!

Killing every spider is not going to save you. We should not wipe out all spiders because of a few. There is a balance in nature. The brown recluse like its name does try to remain seclude.

I have the same argument with my husband over snakes. He thinks that they should all be dead. We would be in trouble if we wiped out everything we thought bugged us.

My first husband had a brown recluse bite him. My son had one a several weeks later. My son had a systemic reaction to the spider bite. I do know what they can do.