Wee...what a ride that was. I woke up on Sunday to go to work and when I got there, I started feeling nauseous. Stomach was acting up and I started feeling miserable. I began cold sweating and having chills. I felt absolutely sick and incapable of doing nothing but vomiting and putting my head down on my desk.
I thought I had some sort of food poisoning. But I had no breakfast that morning and last food I ate was Saturday night. I woke up fine but only started feeling bad on my ride into work, so I was having a hard time proving it was food poisoning. Plus there were no stomach or digestion problems other then vomiting. I ended up going home from work early and just crashed in an outdoor hammock.
It wasn't until later on that night that I started feeling better and was able to eat my first meal in about 24 hours. That's when I went to scratch an itch on my forearm and noticed a silver dollar diameter sized welt that was red and swollen. I noticed a double bite mark, holes maybe 1-2 millimeters apart. I'm pretty sure a spider could only make those types of bites(so could a snake but the small size and close spacing of the holes seemed to indicate spider).
Curiously, the bite was unnoticed by me until much later on. Its not a burning type of sting like a bee and it doesn't itch like a mosquito. I don't know when I had been bitten, possibly in my bed as I was waking up? Another curious fact, my urine smelled horribly, like when you eat asparagus. My only guess was my kidneys were cleaning the venom from my blood.
I still had some very minor symptoms on Tuesday but today, Wednesday I feel 100% better with normal appetite and no more symptoms. The underlying fact here is that I probably have a venomous spider somewhere in my house.
I thought I had some sort of food poisoning. But I had no breakfast that morning and last food I ate was Saturday night. I woke up fine but only started feeling bad on my ride into work, so I was having a hard time proving it was food poisoning. Plus there were no stomach or digestion problems other then vomiting. I ended up going home from work early and just crashed in an outdoor hammock.
It wasn't until later on that night that I started feeling better and was able to eat my first meal in about 24 hours. That's when I went to scratch an itch on my forearm and noticed a silver dollar diameter sized welt that was red and swollen. I noticed a double bite mark, holes maybe 1-2 millimeters apart. I'm pretty sure a spider could only make those types of bites(so could a snake but the small size and close spacing of the holes seemed to indicate spider).
Curiously, the bite was unnoticed by me until much later on. Its not a burning type of sting like a bee and it doesn't itch like a mosquito. I don't know when I had been bitten, possibly in my bed as I was waking up? Another curious fact, my urine smelled horribly, like when you eat asparagus. My only guess was my kidneys were cleaning the venom from my blood.
I still had some very minor symptoms on Tuesday but today, Wednesday I feel 100% better with normal appetite and no more symptoms. The underlying fact here is that I probably have a venomous spider somewhere in my house.
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