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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 1, 2006 14:13:23 GMT -5
dave i'm so glad you are doing ok and glad you got treated quickly. now quit putting those landscaping supplies up on your shoulder to carry them until after you've gotten all the spiders off!
y'all don't have to worry about me sticking my hands in unknown places. i've seen enough spiders in here that if you locked me in a closet here i'd bust right out lol.
kim
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Post by thewiz on Jul 1, 2006 16:42:14 GMT -5
"I took the steel wool, and acetone. This I scrubbed the wound several times a day."
hey doc do you even have a foot left after that?
"I did try muriatic acid?"
i use that to clean cement off of bricks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by BAZ on Jul 1, 2006 19:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 1, 2006 19:46:48 GMT -5
I've seen that one before. I'm wondering how it looks now. I'll bet that left a nasty scar!!
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 3, 2006 1:53:41 GMT -5
My mom sent this to me awhile back. WARNING! Extremely graphic! Towards day 9 you can see the poor fella's bone. Wow, that's really disgusting. I would have figured the guy's thumb would have fallen off after something like that, yet they make it sound like it might heal up. I hope so for his sake. |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 17, 2006 11:53:22 GMT -5
ok i think i've told y'all i know to shake everything out but knowing to shake and finding something when you shake are different things! i went to get a towel and shook it but apparently not hard enough and saw something and dropped it. a huge brown recluse ran off of it and i beat him with my flip flop. now i'm more paranoid than ever. i went and got the grilling tongs and carried all the towels to the wash. i keep looking at the hand he was running away from to make sure he didn't get me. it will take me weeks to get over this!
kim
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Post by hermatite on Jul 17, 2006 11:58:26 GMT -5
Wasn't "beat him with a flip flop" a huge hit for Tommy Dorsey? (HATE spiders btw)
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Post by Duckbean on Jul 17, 2006 15:14:42 GMT -5
Sorry Kim but I had to laugh!The image brought back a memory of one of our first vacations up at lake Erie. We rented a cabin without see it first being naive !When we got there I wanted a shower and grabbed a towel from a stack of them and tossed it over my shoulder, Walking to the shower I felt some thing crawling up my neck!This spider was the size of a quarter! I freaked out needless to say. We started looking around and it was arachnophobia spiders every where! We sat up all night and guarded the kids while they slept and the next day we went into town and bought a dozen cans of bug spray. When we said something to the owners, Their remark was " Thought every one knew how bad the spiders were around here!" The next year we did a lot of checking around before we rented the next cabin!
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 18, 2006 4:04:11 GMT -5
Wow, now I'm gonna be worrying about Kim!!
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 18, 2006 20:18:17 GMT -5
well i'm still paranoid and rightfully so. these were all dead in one room but where on earth are they coming from?! they were dead around the baseboards where we spray. and no my feet are not on the floor while i'm typing this!  kim kim |
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Post by docone31 on Aug 18, 2006 20:23:23 GMT -5
Wow, how did you get them to lay still next to the quarter? I would think they would fight with each other. Insects do that, they are extremely territorial.
Wow.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 18, 2006 20:36:20 GMT -5
lol doc i hypnotized them with the penny!
kim
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Post by docone31 on Aug 18, 2006 21:07:51 GMT -5
That is pretty neat! I wish I had seen that. Now what? Are you going to train them?
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Post by LCARS on Aug 19, 2006 14:57:53 GMT -5
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Post by MichiganRocks on Aug 20, 2006 13:28:37 GMT -5
Okay, I just now read this thread, and I no it's not a popular stand, but i just have to give a disenting view.  Some of you old time members will know that I get along just fine with insects. I have spiders around and all my life have let them walk around on me and have never had one bite me. Now I wouldn't know a brown recluse or a black widow if it jumped up and bite me (I just had to say that), but I have had some really big and hairy beasts walking on me. Now I also never get biten by any kind of bee or hornet either. They too just walk around on me and do no harm. It's like they somehow know that I'm not a threat to them. Now when I was a little boy, my mother always told me shake my shoes before I put them on, because spiders like to hind in dark places. I guess if I was hiding in my shoe and someone stuck their foot in it I'd bite it too. I must admit Kim, your situation does seem a little severe. In fact, I think I saw a science fiction movie like that once. Okay, that was one for the spider. I just had to say something in behalf of my little buddies.  Ron |
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Post by 181lizard on Aug 20, 2006 13:58:53 GMT -5
EEww!
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Shudder! I'm sssooooo grossed out...not gonna be able to get this out of my head now! Thanks a whole hell of alot kids!
Doc...I'm pretty sure she already did train them...TO BE DEAD!
Kim...I'll be saying prayers for you nightly.
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Post by xenaswolf on Aug 20, 2006 14:00:23 GMT -5
Well I know that spiders have their place in this old world....although I think it is in the garbage bin soaked in Raid LOL. The non poisonous ones don't bug me, but man those brown recluses and black widows make me real nervous. Kim is there anything you can do? Like bug bomb or such?
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 20, 2006 23:38:45 GMT -5
i don't want any kind of spider walking on me ron. that might cause me to hurt myself or somebody else.
xena i just do not understand. we have had a professional entomologist coming regularly now for 6 yrs working on just this 1 problem - brown recluses. as you can see they are dying when they walk around the baseboards. but where are they coming from in these numbers!? outside you will find your regular variety of spiders like one would expect but inside only brown recluses. sands doesn't have them in his camper and they aren't in the shop. other types are in there but not these. there is not a room in my house we don't find them in.
today we went with a home remedy for brown recluses. we sprayed dr. bronners peppermint soap all around the perimeter of the house. i couldn't tell by reading about this treatment if it kills them or repels them. i'll let you know if i see any improvement. says you can gargle with it and brush your teeth though i'm going to pass on that. says it will also get rid of haints. hubby wanted to know if i was going to leave after he sprayed it lol.
kim
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Post by rollingstone on Aug 21, 2006 23:25:25 GMT -5
That's pretty creepish, Kim. I'm guessing that brown recluses only bite if you step on one in bare feet or grab one by mistake?, as you seem to co-exist with them without being bitten yet. The scariest spider I can find around here is this kind (don't know the name). I think they are harmless, but I wouldn't try to pick one up or anything. This guy is maybe an inch and half long, but I used a macro for a better look. Kind of cool up close, all those little hairs must be to sense vibarations if something lands in their web. I hate walking into the webs, particularly at night.   |
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Post by dtcmor on Aug 22, 2006 0:36:20 GMT -5
I am sorry to see that my initial post on this thread has caused so much concern about spiders. I hope I did not start an epidemic and throw everyone into panic.  It is great to see all of the information that you have all provided and I hope it helps others to recognize the signs of a spider bite and to get treatment as soon as possible. I would like to report that I have been spider bite free for about 2 months now and am glad to have the ordeals behind me!?! I did receive one more bite on the shoulder, which was the least traumatic of them all, being smaller by far than the rest. Still, a total of six bites appearing in less than three months was enough to scare me half to death, not to mention the "other" things that the doctor was trying to rule out besides possibles (he even went so far as to suggest AIDS and many other frightening diseases as causes which about sent me into traumatic shock itself !?!) I think they pumped enough antibiotics through me to keep me healthy for quite a few years to come, but at least they were enough to keep the scarring from being so great. You can hardly tell that I was bitten and where they were. Kim, I feel sorry for what you are going through with them being everywhere in the house. I had the same thoughts that they were inside and that the little suckers were getting me as I was sleeping. But we have never found any real evidence of them being inside. I hope you can figure out a solution to your problems with them. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it!!! Thanks to all for the responses and the support .  Dave |
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It is great to see all of the information that you have all provided and I hope it helps others to recognize the signs of a spider bite and to get treatment as soon as possible.
