Okay I know at least a couple of you want to see my brown recluse bite. The chances of getting bitten are so low and the chances of it being a true bite and having ~effects~ even lower. Scientifically, I won the shit lottery and now it can be for your entertainment. If I understand right, I did experience necrosis - it’s just that it looks nothing like the horrible black photos you see online because it’s hypothesized that those are less “natural venom effects” and more “buddy you got MRSA.” I did not in fact get MRSA. Just everything else it’s possible for a spider to do to you.
Anyway under the cut, a progression up to today. It’s not gross tbh, just uh. Colorful. It’s pretty much entirely a surface change - nothing deep or particularly traumatizing happened. The threat of winding up with a hole in my arm scared the shit out of me for days but I saw my doctor on day 12 or so and she reassured me it was doing fine actually.
Day one: ya boi got bit three hours ago and went back to sleep.
Day 3: Hmm. This looks a bit like Great Britain.
Day 4: Hello from the hospital. You can see why I might be here, with my rashy swollen arm. Rare effect number one: systemic reaction. Not pictured: rare effect number two, half your red blood cells explode and you look like you’ve had acute anemia for years and not literally a week.
Day 6: Haha this looks kind of cool tbh, hope that doesn’t all go necrotic. (hi Jesus, no house calls please I wanna stay here on earth thx) (I was doing real bad y’all, they didn’t tell me til after how shaky it was for a sec.)
Day 10: Just got home from the hospital, can now properly focus on and freak out about my fucking arm. Also it kind of looks like a profile of the grinch now.
Day 13: the crackly stuff is dried lidocaine don’t worry.
Day 22: I skipped over the blistering that happened along the border, you’re welcome. This is the first day it’s truly looked like something healing instead of a worrying gooey mess (from triple antibiotic that I keep on it. It apparently heals better moist, so I keep it gooped up and covered. This is the best it’s looked bc the bandage absorbed all the goo and gently removed the thin skin left from the blisters.)
So yeah! I’m pretty proud of keeping that blood blister safe so it can heal under the skin. I can tell my nerves are repairing bc I can occasionally feel the liquid move and yeah it feels weird but you gotta know it doesn’t even rank on the weird shit this wound has pulled on me. It gets flatter on its own every day, as does the wound around it.
Having a gf who’s an ICU RN is really comforting bc I send her these and she goes “oh wow it’s looking so good!” and I go “haha okay cool good to know because it’s literally terrifying.”
But up top! In the last photo! It really is evening out and closing up and I’m so pleased.
So yeah when I bitch about doorknobs or sleeves or not being able to carry anything heavier than a cereal bowl (which I had to work up to) this is why. Every time I pull my arm too much to the side or flex the dead (!!!) muscles too hard the wound pulls at the edges and we’re trying to avoid that. Thank god I can type, and even more that doing so no longer pulls. It used to, just a little.
Now that I've learned how to definitely not go to town for a week or two at a time, I'm less likely to leave the house than ever before. So I'm still being a hermit, intend to continue being a hermit, and will likely become an even more reclusive hermit.
As I write this post, I’m still being a hermit, but with a couple exceptions. I’ve still been staying busy. It’s hard for me to imagine how people manage to get bored. I have a list of things I want to do and it’s so long I won’t be able to do all of it in my one lifetime. The items on my list are varied and adaptable to any situation. If I’m sick and in bed, there’s a list of television shows…
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Tennessee HS football player hospitalized with tick-borne illness, brown recluse bite
Just over a month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an increase in tickborne illnesses, a Middle Tennessee high school football player has been hospitalized from a tick and brown recluse bite. The Mt. Juliet High School football team issued a tweet on Monday asking for
prayers for defensive end Mason Greenwood, a senior at the school. “No matter what color uniform u wear, or what kind of field you play on, we need ur prayers for 1 of ours. Mason Greenwood, an upcoming SR 4 us, is at Vandy Childrens Hospital & he’s struggling rn. It’s a combo of a brown recluse bite/tick born illness. Please pray 4 him & family.” CONTINUE
Tennessee HS football player hospitalized with tick-borne illness, brown recluse bite
Just over a month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an increase in tickborne illnesses, a Middle Tennessee high school football player has been hospitalized from a tick and brown recluse bite. The Mt. Juliet High School football team issued a tweet on Monday asking for
prayers for defensive end Mason Greenwood, a senior at the school. “No matter what color uniform u wear, or what kind of field you play on, we need ur prayers for 1 of ours. Mason Greenwood, an upcoming SR 4 us, is at Vandy Childrens Hospital & he’s struggling rn. It’s a combo of a brown recluse bite/tick born illness. Please pray 4 him & family.” CONTINUE
Tennessee HS football player hospitalized with tick-borne illness, brown recluse bite
Just over a month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an increase in tickborne illnesses, a Middle Tennessee high school football player has been hospitalized from a tick and brown recluse bite. The Mt. Juliet High School football team issued a tweet on Monday asking for
prayers for defensive end Mason Greenwood, a senior at the school. “No matter what color uniform u wear, or what kind of field you play on, we need ur prayers for 1 of ours. Mason Greenwood, an upcoming SR 4 us, is at Vandy Childrens Hospital & he’s struggling rn. It’s a combo of a brown recluse bite/tick born illness. Please pray 4 him & family.” CONTINUE
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Brown Recluse spiders actually aren't the spawn of the devil. And I'm here to tell you why!
Brown Recluse spiders are largely non-aggressive. Most people are bitten by the little dudes when they are putting on clothes they haven't worn in a while, such as gloves. The babies get all smooshed and bite out of fear/defense. It's not like they're hunting you down because everything with exposed flesh is their bitch or whatever. In fact, a family in Kansas had over 2,000 brown recluse spiders removed from their heavily infested home, yet the family of four were never harmed by the spiders, despite having encountered them many times.
While their bites can be dangerous and bite victims should have their bites checked into, most of the time you will not experience skin necrosis. Certain studies have suggested that this occurs in about 30% of bites, and systemic illness only occurs in 14%. Most of the time, especially if you are a healthy person, you'll only get a little spider bite that is, while annoying, not a big deal.
Additionally, it's estimated that about 80% of reported brown recluse bites have been misdiagnosed, and that the claims of necrosis can actually almost always be sourced to a different problem entirely unrelated to the bite.
I say this because although you should be aware that a small number of brown recluse bites can be deadly, you should not be having a panic attack and making everyone in the world paranoid and afraid of a little spider.
Having this paranoid state of mind of "these spiders are evil and if they bite me I'm going to die" only spreads fear and paranoia.
If you see a brown recluse in your home, get it outside or, if it bothers you that much, kill it.
But don't have some kind of episode over it. It's just a little spider that isn't doing anything wrong and I'm getting kind of tired of seeing people talking like they are the literal minions of Satan himself.
Reblog if you like but one way or another please try to share this information with people. This kind of senseless fear is exactly why sharks and other demonized animals are allowed to be killed so often.
