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| Oct 11th, 2007 08:32 PM | ||
| DeadKennedys |
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| Oct 11th, 2007 03:40 PM | ||
| Chojin | My fiancée owns a tarantula, but gets back at it by not feeding it or giving it water. That'll show it! | |
| Oct 11th, 2007 03:38 PM | ||
| Undead |
Hmmm. I'll have to find out if you can do that down here too. It'd be worth the $20 to me! I have a grudge against spiders now but my real insect nemesis are the fire ants! Anybody had a taste of those nasty little bastards? |
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| Oct 11th, 2007 03:28 PM | ||
| Chojin |
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| Oct 11th, 2007 01:18 AM | ||
| Undead |
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I fucking love your avatar, btw. No Sir, I don't like it! That horse was always my favorite of the weird Ren and Stimpy randomness. 
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| Oct 11th, 2007 12:16 AM | ||
| WhiteRat | Clearly that spider has shown that it has the killer instinct needed to dominate the spider fighting circuit. I recommend you corral that thing and harness it's abilities for your fiscal benefit. | |
| Oct 10th, 2007 11:52 PM | ||
| Evil Robot | It could have been worse, a man named Spider could have bitten you on the penis. | |
| Oct 10th, 2007 11:44 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
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http://community.livejournal.com/zit_fetish/ Its not a sexual thing, its just a weird fascination with them. |
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| Oct 10th, 2007 07:47 PM | ||
| DeadKennedys | On your CHIN? Jesus H. Christ... | |
| Oct 10th, 2007 06:19 PM | ||
| Undead |
Sorry about the spider bite Sethomas! Glad you're okay now. I have no problem with them the 8-legged beasties if they're outside but the second they set one of their many feet inside my house it's go time! I got bit on the chin by a Brown Recluse my first night living in Florida. Still got one more year before my driver's license expires and I won't have to show that fuckawful pic of myself rockin' some necrosis when I get carded. |
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| Oct 10th, 2007 01:24 PM | ||
| Terra |
I only have a Hoover in my garage. 
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| Oct 10th, 2007 08:12 AM | ||
| Cosmo Electrolux |
um....I have a shop vac, and I'm not a mechanic. I have all sorts of power tools and junk in my garage....and spiders. |
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| Oct 9th, 2007 11:27 PM | ||
| Terra |
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| Oct 9th, 2007 08:14 PM | ||
| AChimp | You're supposed to get someone to suck the venom out of the wound. | |
| Oct 9th, 2007 12:53 AM | ||
| DeadKennedys |
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| Oct 9th, 2007 12:51 AM | ||
| DeadKennedys |
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| Oct 9th, 2007 12:36 AM | ||
| Terra | Well, you've taken care of yourself right proper. But have you cleaned house and rid yourself of said teeny beastie? | |
| Oct 8th, 2007 11:46 PM | ||
| Sethomas |
Update! The day before having taken that picture, I decided that I should invent my own strategy to defeating the spider bite rather than consult any insight that man's millennia of written history has to say about dealing with spiders. It's more fun that way. I decided that the necrotic tissue was probably going to perpetuate the presence of venom in the area, and observation told me that it was functionally beyond repair and thus should best be removed so that new skin could grow in its place. So, I took a loofah and scrubbed the hell out of the black skin. Scrub scrub scrubby dub dub. Eventually I got most of it off, at which point I splashed tons of rubbing alcohol on it followed by generic Neosporin. The next day (Friday) much of the blackness had returned, just not quite as intense. So, back to scrubbing, isopropyl, and antibiotic. I think this is about the time I took the pictures above. I got even more of the blackness out, and left it at that for the time being. I made a policy that any scabbing that happened would be picked off until it congealed into what I judged to be a healthy color. Much of Friday was spent scratching at it. Friday night it started to scab over with what I thought was a healthy color, so I doused it in isopropyl and antibiotic ointment. Then sleep. Saturday morning I woke up to see that my pillowcase was covered in green slime, so I checked my neck and virtually all the inflammation was gone. VICTORY WAS MINE AT THIS POINT. Since then it's been gradually drying out and healing up, so I think this medical file is shut. My father told me to observe myself for the next few weeks to see if I develop arthritic symptoms, because that's sometimes a manifestation of spider venom. Properly speaking, all spiders are venomous on account of that being how they kill their prey, it's just a matter of its potency on humans. A few days ago I thought it was possible for this to have been a brown recluse, but that it had gone away after just a few days should tell me that this was probably a wolf spider. I hate wolf spiders because they're so big, so I associate them as having big painful teeth. I don't know how true that is. I once was shoveling manure in the barn at home and I uncovered a freshly-hatched nest of wolf spiders, it was like an entire wall was just crawling with hairy little bastards. That's another thing about them--they're hairy, and I tend to think that non-human hairy things are dirty. And another time I was working in a crawl space putting braces on an addition to our house, and there were probably half a dozen wolf spiders crawling around my body. I didn't get bit those times, so I have no idea why this time some wolf spider decided to share my bed and then thank me with a vampire hickey. |
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| Oct 8th, 2007 11:18 PM | ||
| Supafly345 | Now I know you totally just internet'd that DeadKennedys. Because if you knew anything from anything you would have described a hematoma as a bruse and not internal bleeding. YOU ARE BUSTED. | |
| Oct 6th, 2007 10:20 PM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | i am no expert either, but i did google "Most venomous spider in the world" and the most venomous is the Brazilian wandering spider and the most dangerous is the Australian funnel web spider. | |
| Oct 6th, 2007 06:17 AM | ||
| DeadKennedys |
There are only 27 spiders that have caused human fatalities, and only two or three that will kill you quickly. And the black widow, considered the most deadly, well, only 1% of victims die from it because of advanced medical technology. Brown Recluse bites begin with pain and swelling. As the swelling grows so fast, skin begins to slough off, internal bleeding can begin (hematoma, like I think I see in Seth's pics), and in the worst cases, necrosis (death of the skin); in that case, the'll scoop out your zombified flesh with a melon baller. Charming, huh? Pain is so intense that you can't do anything, but the real danger is neglecting it. If it's on your leg, you'll have a huge disgusting painful scar. If it's on a joint, you could lose mobility. And there's always a risk of infection. |
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| Oct 6th, 2007 04:02 AM | ||
| Guitar Woman | I guess I was misinformed, because I was under the impression that a Brown Recluse bite would kill you at ridiculously quickly. | |
| Oct 6th, 2007 03:40 AM | ||
| DeadKennedys |
You don't die from a brown recluse bite, unless you let necrosis set in and an infection spread. If it was a bite from a venomous spider, he would have been dead days ago. We have spiders like that here, but not brown recluse. I ran into some Wolf spiders in New Orleans, pretty big and nasty, If you have a free infirmary just to get checked out, I would go. I know a thing or two about spider bites. The thing that worries me is the discoloration in the middle. It appears to be a strange tissue disruption, maybe hematoma. I would get it checked, what's the worst that could happen? |
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| Oct 6th, 2007 03:28 AM | ||
| Sethomas | You're right. You're not an expert! | |
| Oct 6th, 2007 03:11 AM | ||
| Guitar Woman | I'm no expert or anything, but if it was a Brown Recluse I think you'd already be dead. | |
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