Not radioactive and why would one of my brothers do this!? I never felt much pain but later that day my elbow was itching and I looked at it. Two big fang marks about 3-4 mm apart, you could see where the fangs really dug in and pulled down and back. The fang wound was a good 1-2 mm thick at each puncture.
Didn't think much of it, elbow was tender to the joint/bone. Over the next day or so a golfball knot developed. Not much pain, didn't think much of it. A little swelling and redness.
8 days later I was looking at it and could swear I had tissue damage as it looked like part of my muscle was gone/flattened. I freaked out thinking flesh eating bacteria or necrosis. Off to the ER I go, NOW. Thinking the worst that I'm going to be laid up in the hospital for a month to treat the infection, there is major swelling going on suddenly.
Doc diagnoses bursitis, the rupture of your bursa sac, the fluid filled sac around your joints. Plus on day 8 I'm showing signs of an infection of the deep skin = cellulitis. That's serious shit and needs to be monitored closely. If joint/bursa sac gets infected I'm in more serious shit trouble. Doc thinks spider punctured my bursa sac on my elbow. My arm and elbow are the size of a small football at this point. Think Popeye, and I don't have Popeye forearms.
So that's my spider bite and I will never shrug one off again. I've got a golf ball sized "nipple" on my elbow from the bursitis that will take months to fully heal. The powerful antibiotic given has the cellulitis dealt with and I'm taking that shit like clockwork every 12 hours.
TLDR/PSA - if you think you got bit by a spider, go get checked out. I knew it wasn't a brown recluse because there was no immediate necrosis. My fear was MRSA or necrotizing bacteria that can occur with spider bites hence the ER trip. It was getting better and then on day 7-8 got progressively worse fast.
Best think doc said to put me at ease = "If it was flesh eating or necrotizing bacteria or brown recluse your arm would be gone by now since it's day 8"
Didn't think much of it, elbow was tender to the joint/bone. Over the next day or so a golfball knot developed. Not much pain, didn't think much of it. A little swelling and redness.
8 days later I was looking at it and could swear I had tissue damage as it looked like part of my muscle was gone/flattened. I freaked out thinking flesh eating bacteria or necrosis. Off to the ER I go, NOW. Thinking the worst that I'm going to be laid up in the hospital for a month to treat the infection, there is major swelling going on suddenly.
Doc diagnoses bursitis, the rupture of your bursa sac, the fluid filled sac around your joints. Plus on day 8 I'm showing signs of an infection of the deep skin = cellulitis. That's serious shit and needs to be monitored closely. If joint/bursa sac gets infected I'm in more serious shit trouble. Doc thinks spider punctured my bursa sac on my elbow. My arm and elbow are the size of a small football at this point. Think Popeye, and I don't have Popeye forearms.
So that's my spider bite and I will never shrug one off again. I've got a golf ball sized "nipple" on my elbow from the bursitis that will take months to fully heal. The powerful antibiotic given has the cellulitis dealt with and I'm taking that shit like clockwork every 12 hours.
TLDR/PSA - if you think you got bit by a spider, go get checked out. I knew it wasn't a brown recluse because there was no immediate necrosis. My fear was MRSA or necrotizing bacteria that can occur with spider bites hence the ER trip. It was getting better and then on day 7-8 got progressively worse fast.
Best think doc said to put me at ease = "If it was flesh eating or necrotizing bacteria or brown recluse your arm would be gone by now since it's day 8"
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