as promised, pics of my healing wound....

[AeroEngy]

Holy Christ! All that from a fucking spider?

Where do you live so I can avoid that part of the country?

Try to avoid this general area.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I love this quote from Wikipedia:

As suggested by its specific epithet reclusa ("recluse"), the brown recluse spider is rarely aggressive, and actual bites from the species are uncommon. In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had lived there for years were never harmed by the spiders, despite many encounters with them.

 

[highland145]

you should do a little more research on the Brown Recluse, it does happen.

Brown Recluse bite. Look it up.

The brown recluse spider may be getting more credit than deserved for putting the bite on South Carolina residents. The number of skin lesions diagnosed as brown recluse bites is far greater than the number of spiders that have been collected.
“It is difficult for a physician to diagnose a brown recluse bite based simply on an examination of the wound,” said Clemson entomologist Ian Stocks. He worked with Ivar Frithsen of the Medical University of South Carolina and Richard Vetter of the University of California at Riverside to analyze spider bite diagnosis data collected from physicians in the state.
They found that, in many cases, if a patient did not remember getting an injury they assumed it was a spider bite. In fact, many times the wound was caused by bacteria called MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which has become a significant health problem in parts of South Carolina. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

http://www.clemson.edu/public/impacts/08spring/env/is_it_really_a_brown_recluse.html

 

[Locut0s]

Try to avoid this general area.

I wouldn't need spiders to avoid that area 😉

 

[GTaudiophile]

So what were you doing when you got bit?

 

[OverVolt]

That is not safe for anyone dude.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Get well soon! That is one hell of a nasty bite. Be glad that you still have the most important skill of all time, and that is to post on ATOT. 😛

 

[zinfamous]

recluse bite, that got into bloodstream, hell ensued.... had to get skin grafts to cover the amount of skin it necrotized

Holy shit. I think I killed a recluse in my apartment the other night, but I'm not sure. I never grew up with them, so not sure if that's what it was. It was my best assumption after internetting.


D:

 

[janas19]

Is the link still up? I can't see your pictures! 🙁

 

[Locut0s]

Holy shit. I think I killed a recluse in my apartment the other night, but I'm not sure. I never grew up with them, so not sure if that's what it was. It was my best assumption after internetting.


D:

They are after you! 😱

 

[OverVolt]

Were you taking alot of ibuprofen, aspirin, advil, etc before it happened?

I have heard NSAIDS can contribute to fascia bacterial infections.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Brown Recluse bite. Look it up.

It has already been looked up and linked in this thread. Read it.

you should do a little more research on the Brown Recluse, it does happen.

You should do a little more research.

A. It never made any sense that news of this type of reaction wouldn't have been more widespread prior to teh golden age of in7erw3bz sensationalism.

B. Pics produced always looked exactly like bacterial infections.

C. If this was truly a possibility from the bites alone, then one would expect MORE reports of these reactions.

D. I have been bitten by this spider which resulted in a dime sized bruised lump and a stiff ankle for a couple of days. No big deal. I have worse wasp stings.

E. I will remind you that this is a Zane Johnson thread.

A link in the thread to the wikipedia article suggests the same speculation among scientists.

 

[Locut0s]

Were you taking alot of ibuprofen, aspirin, advil, etc before it happened?

Hopefully nothing stronger, being a former addict.

 

[zinfamous]

You use a word like 'whom' and then end your sentence with a preposition?

lol.


btw, that's actually grammatically fine. No real rule against ending with a preposition. As with passive voice, it's too often unavoidable.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/ending-sentences-with-prepositions

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Holy shit. I think I killed a recluse in my apartment the other night, but I'm not sure. I never grew up with them, so not sure if that's what it was. It was my best assumption after internetting.


D:

You are in Chicago, no? If so it would be highly unlikely.

 

[dmcowen674]

as promised, pics of my healing wound....

it's gruesome, so maybe nswf:

this is just half of the actual wound... just the top dressing got changed today, tomorrow the other half does.. this part in the pictures is the grossest.

http://www.ntin.net/~zanejohnson/temp/New%20Folder/100_0001.JPG

Wow, glad you survived, looks like it could have run completely out of control.

 

[KK]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Validity_of_necrosis_claims

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis

so it says that it is found often in 70% who have immunosuppression, diabetes, alcoholism/drug abuse, malignancies, and chronic systemic diseases. You got diabetes?

Also, how do you know it was a spider that bite you?

 

[zanejohnson]

It has already been looked up and linked in this thread. Read it.



You should do a little more research.

A. It never made any sense that news of this type of reaction wouldn't have been more widespread prior to teh golden age of in7erw3bz sensationalism.

B. Pics produced always looked exactly like bacterial infections.

C. If this was truly a possibility from the bites alone, then one would expect MORE reports of these reactions.

D. I have been bitten by this spider which resulted in a dime sized bruised lump and a stiff ankle for a couple of days. No big deal. I have worse wasp stings.

E. I will remind you that this is a Zane Johnson thread.

A link in the thread to the wikipedia article suggests the same speculation among scientists.

what you see there is the result of a recluse bite and.then bacteria introduced to it...necrotizing fascitis

 

[Red Squirrel]

So glad I live in Canada. Don't have to worry about poisonous stuff. At least not here up north. Maybe southern Canada has stuff but even there I think it's fairly safe.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

what you see there is the result of a recluse bite and.then bacteria introduced to it...necrotizing fascitis

That's what I said, dipshit. The bite was only the point of entry for the bacteria, the wound is caused entirely by that and has nothing to do with the venom of the spider. Sue the hospital if that is really your leg.

 

[zerocool84]

So glad I live in Canada. Don't have to worry about poisonous stuff. At least not here up north. Maybe southern Canada has stuff but even there I think it's fairly safe.

Living in Canada is poisonous enough eh?

 

[hanoverphist]

It's a dead guys skin. That would be enough. That its skin wouldn't concern me, and I hope they are giving me drip morphine because I'd be freaking out. It's that the guy (or girl) it was formerly attached to is dead.

at least you could say you were part zombie!

a friend of mine just had a cadaver graft on his shin, i call him a zombie all the time.

 

[Locut0s]

So glad I live in Canada. Don't have to worry about poisonous stuff. At least not here up north. Maybe southern Canada has stuff but even there I think it's fairly safe.

Well we have black widows but they aren't that dangerous.

 

[CZroe]

That's what I said, dipshit. The bite was only the point of entry for the bacteria, the wound is caused entirely by that and has nothing to do with the venom of the spider. Sue the hospital if that is really your leg.

Then how did I identify it as a Brown Recluse bite the moment I saw it? One of the first things I searched for when Google introduced "Google Image Search" was "Brown Recluse Bite." Try it.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Then how did I identify it as a Brown Recluse bite the moment I saw it? One of the first things I searched for when Google introduced "Google Image Search" was "Brown Recluse Bite." Try it.

It's funny how much people like to write here without reading...


It's because you have been MISLEAD as to what the properties of a Brown Recluse bite are. I thought they still taught correlation/causation in school?