Do you hate spiders?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

I tend to like spiders. I usually refrain from killing them when I can, but if I find one inside my home, I have to destroy it. Spiders do bite, and some of them quite nastily at that.

Yeah I had something like that happen to the back of my left thigh, just above the knee. Brown recluse bites suck. My leg was so badly swollen, i couldn't bend it. The doc's in the ER milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes, and it was so badly infected local pain killers they tried to use didn't work. I felt every move of the scapel when they went to remove the necrotic tissue from my leg. I saw it when they put it up on the table. It was like they took a core sample out of my leg. It was oddly fascinating. I could see the skin, they layer of fat beneath it, and a chunk of meat below that.

Did i mention this was painful? I had a death grip on the gurney, and a big wad of gauze to bite down on. Kinda ilke some old john wayne western where they give you a stick to bite on while they start cutting.

It makes for a nice scar.

Oh yeah, the best part was, i was a study case for a bunch of AF medical "Clinical students". The doc was a full bird colonel. He finishes up with me, and says to the bunch of these guys just out of tech school, "Ok who wants to pack the wound!". Also, being face down on a gurney, reading the labels on the drawers, one of which said, "Misc implements for rectal torture". Joy!