Spider Infestation!!
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Sorry guys, but HOLY SPIDERWEB BATMAN!!!:aigo:
I couldn't do it. I'd be all over that bombing schedule and likely sell the car (just abandon it, maybe) and move the frick out of Dodge!
The psychological and emotional trauma that belies the subtle scar I carry from that damn Brown Recluse... (actually I was bitten TWO TIMES in fairly close succession, but I didn't realize it at first...)
The FIRST bite was on my front thigh area and near and just below the hip pivot line toward the groin... and it was just a "pimple" one morning in the shower. No big deal... I scratched it away... and forgot about it. Over the next 24 hours, it's an abscess with some dead white flesh that developed into a dark, figure eight shaped "hole" in my leg. I kept using a fine tweezers and picking at the "white stuff" and then flooding the area with hydrogen peroxide several times a day. I didn't even know what a Brown Recluse was then, and never figured it out until the second, worse bite. Between cotton patched band-aid dressings with heavy polysporin antibiotic creams... heavy flushes with hp over and over, then dressing it all up again... I remember it took many weeks to heal, and even now, the figure of a snowman occupies that spot on my leg... It was so bad one time when I was cleaning and dressing it, I felt faint, laid down on the bathroom floor as I tried to finish it up, and blacked out for a moment... and woke up buzzing.
Round TWO:
I was dressing up for a ride on my 1986 GSXR 1100. Full leathers, red, white and black upper and lowers... and as I finished pulling on the lowers, then started zipping the jacket to them at the waist, I realized that my CAT was "batting" at a funny little brown spider crawling along the edge of the floor where it meets the wall next to the closet. I leaned down after several "bats" and pulled the cat back to view this crippled arachnid... and although the floors were dark hardwood, and the room was dim... I could make out an unusual brown spider that was not like other spiders I had seen. It had EYES that freaked me out, and a violin shaped pattern on it's back... and I remembered the story about a woman who worked on the staff in a plant I was contracted to in Kentucky tell about her experience getting bit by a "fiddleback", and she told about the "Brown Recluse" spider. Apparently, being bitten on the bridge of her nose when she laid down in bed and it was in the folds of her pillow linen, she almost immediately went into shock and had to be rushed to ER... where she ended up admitted for TWO WEEKS and in intensive care for several days!:aigo:
...anyway... this curious little bugger was JUST MAYBE kinda funky lookin' like that description from that woman... I thought to myself... and MY concern was for my CAT being bitten! Little did I know... although I later pieced it together, that the Recluse had been IN MY LEATHERS, and likely in the sleeve (which is lined with mesh) where my forearm had been bitten as I put my arm through it! At this point, I STILL have NO IDEA that I'm bit... but... being the pet cat loving guy that I am... I grabbed a paper towel from the kitchen, and reached down and smashed it, then tossed it in the trash. DOH! Wish I had known what is was then... I'd have KEPT it!
So... I head out the door and take a triple-digit cruise through the country...
NEXT DAY...
I get up for my shower, and notice a little PIMPLE with a ring of swollen red around it on my forearm near the elbow. I still haven't made the connection with the hip incident from a few months prior. Mid way through the day at work... I'm feeling FEVER in my forearm, my elbow is stiff... and there is a purplish discoloration from the elbow veins up my inner bicep and swelling in my armpit. I show my wife when I get home, and speculate that it is a spider bite... maybe a "Brown Recluse"... but think little, and go to bed. They NEXT day, there is an open abscess with McDonald's Special Sauce looking OOZE starting to weep from it, and I dress it and go to work. Mid day, I'm feeling like SHIT and my arm is REALLY feverish and swollen and the oozing pit is larger than a dime of necrotic flesh in the middle of a "sunny-side-up-egg" sized rise in a big multi-circle "bloat" on my arm. Not cool. I call my wife and describe what's happening, and she tells me to go to the local medical clinic. The doctor who sees me there says "not likely a spider bite, probably some other insect... but let's give you some antibiotic just in case. It COULD be a spider bite... but this will take care of it." Then he sends me home and says PUT A WARM COMPRESS ON IT! WROOOONG!!!:icon_evil
Two days later, and the antibiotic hasn't done JACK SHIT and I'm not able to go to work! I start looking around on my computer (hey, we're talking early nineties here???) and finally sort out some information on the BROWN RECLUSE, and I REALLY START TO FREAK! My wife calls around and sends me to a local "Infusion Clinic" with a specialist on "infectious diseases" based on a friend of her's suggestion. I walk in, the doctor puts on his gloves, presses on my forearm, looks at the oozing abscess and says "yup, that's a venomous bite, likely a spider... although Brown Recluse's don't reside in our area... well... I knew of one, and had a child who almost died from one down south once... but we'll see if we can't reverse that." Moments later and I'm on a 2,000 milligram IV drip of Rocephin which I repeat for the next 10 straight days. Today, there is BARELY a scar on my forearm from that bite... although my FIRST bite, which I figured out when I began researching Recluse's on the net, has left a visibly worse scar... from a MUCH lesser bite.
Way I figure it... I'd been staying on jobs in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana on numerous stints in the prior years, and likely BROUGHT IT BACK in a box or something. Considering they can live for upwards of SEVEN YEARS (in extreme cases... usually 2~4) and survive WITHOUT FOOD for 6~12 MONTHS... I just don't like these tri-ocular flesh-eating-elixir-injecting shy-fanged anxiety-spawning arachnids from hell...
Dude... you GOTTA get them the HELL OUT OF THERE!!!:aigo::aigo::aigo:
G/L
-crisp
I couldn't do it. I'd be all over that bombing schedule and likely sell the car (just abandon it, maybe) and move the frick out of Dodge!
The psychological and emotional trauma that belies the subtle scar I carry from that damn Brown Recluse... (actually I was bitten TWO TIMES in fairly close succession, but I didn't realize it at first...)
The FIRST bite was on my front thigh area and near and just below the hip pivot line toward the groin... and it was just a "pimple" one morning in the shower. No big deal... I scratched it away... and forgot about it. Over the next 24 hours, it's an abscess with some dead white flesh that developed into a dark, figure eight shaped "hole" in my leg. I kept using a fine tweezers and picking at the "white stuff" and then flooding the area with hydrogen peroxide several times a day. I didn't even know what a Brown Recluse was then, and never figured it out until the second, worse bite. Between cotton patched band-aid dressings with heavy polysporin antibiotic creams... heavy flushes with hp over and over, then dressing it all up again... I remember it took many weeks to heal, and even now, the figure of a snowman occupies that spot on my leg... It was so bad one time when I was cleaning and dressing it, I felt faint, laid down on the bathroom floor as I tried to finish it up, and blacked out for a moment... and woke up buzzing.
Round TWO:
I was dressing up for a ride on my 1986 GSXR 1100. Full leathers, red, white and black upper and lowers... and as I finished pulling on the lowers, then started zipping the jacket to them at the waist, I realized that my CAT was "batting" at a funny little brown spider crawling along the edge of the floor where it meets the wall next to the closet. I leaned down after several "bats" and pulled the cat back to view this crippled arachnid... and although the floors were dark hardwood, and the room was dim... I could make out an unusual brown spider that was not like other spiders I had seen. It had EYES that freaked me out, and a violin shaped pattern on it's back... and I remembered the story about a woman who worked on the staff in a plant I was contracted to in Kentucky tell about her experience getting bit by a "fiddleback", and she told about the "Brown Recluse" spider. Apparently, being bitten on the bridge of her nose when she laid down in bed and it was in the folds of her pillow linen, she almost immediately went into shock and had to be rushed to ER... where she ended up admitted for TWO WEEKS and in intensive care for several days!:aigo:
...anyway... this curious little bugger was JUST MAYBE kinda funky lookin' like that description from that woman... I thought to myself... and MY concern was for my CAT being bitten! Little did I know... although I later pieced it together, that the Recluse had been IN MY LEATHERS, and likely in the sleeve (which is lined with mesh) where my forearm had been bitten as I put my arm through it! At this point, I STILL have NO IDEA that I'm bit... but... being the pet cat loving guy that I am... I grabbed a paper towel from the kitchen, and reached down and smashed it, then tossed it in the trash. DOH! Wish I had known what is was then... I'd have KEPT it!
So... I head out the door and take a triple-digit cruise through the country...
NEXT DAY...
I get up for my shower, and notice a little PIMPLE with a ring of swollen red around it on my forearm near the elbow. I still haven't made the connection with the hip incident from a few months prior. Mid way through the day at work... I'm feeling FEVER in my forearm, my elbow is stiff... and there is a purplish discoloration from the elbow veins up my inner bicep and swelling in my armpit. I show my wife when I get home, and speculate that it is a spider bite... maybe a "Brown Recluse"... but think little, and go to bed. They NEXT day, there is an open abscess with McDonald's Special Sauce looking OOZE starting to weep from it, and I dress it and go to work. Mid day, I'm feeling like SHIT and my arm is REALLY feverish and swollen and the oozing pit is larger than a dime of necrotic flesh in the middle of a "sunny-side-up-egg" sized rise in a big multi-circle "bloat" on my arm. Not cool. I call my wife and describe what's happening, and she tells me to go to the local medical clinic. The doctor who sees me there says "not likely a spider bite, probably some other insect... but let's give you some antibiotic just in case. It COULD be a spider bite... but this will take care of it." Then he sends me home and says PUT A WARM COMPRESS ON IT! WROOOONG!!!:icon_evil
Two days later, and the antibiotic hasn't done JACK SHIT and I'm not able to go to work! I start looking around on my computer (hey, we're talking early nineties here???) and finally sort out some information on the BROWN RECLUSE, and I REALLY START TO FREAK! My wife calls around and sends me to a local "Infusion Clinic" with a specialist on "infectious diseases" based on a friend of her's suggestion. I walk in, the doctor puts on his gloves, presses on my forearm, looks at the oozing abscess and says "yup, that's a venomous bite, likely a spider... although Brown Recluse's don't reside in our area... well... I knew of one, and had a child who almost died from one down south once... but we'll see if we can't reverse that." Moments later and I'm on a 2,000 milligram IV drip of Rocephin which I repeat for the next 10 straight days. Today, there is BARELY a scar on my forearm from that bite... although my FIRST bite, which I figured out when I began researching Recluse's on the net, has left a visibly worse scar... from a MUCH lesser bite.
Way I figure it... I'd been staying on jobs in Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana on numerous stints in the prior years, and likely BROUGHT IT BACK in a box or something. Considering they can live for upwards of SEVEN YEARS (in extreme cases... usually 2~4) and survive WITHOUT FOOD for 6~12 MONTHS... I just don't like these tri-ocular flesh-eating-elixir-injecting shy-fanged anxiety-spawning arachnids from hell...
Dude... you GOTTA get them the HELL OUT OF THERE!!!:aigo::aigo::aigo:
G/L
-crisp
wiseco7mgt;1380012 said:
DUDE!
Please... tell me you are going to "retract" that:
a. Drunken stuper statement
b. I'm a DICK when I TYPE before I THINK statement
c. I want everyone in this thread to HATE ME for a REASON statement...
Please?:icon_surp
-crisp
Crisp, Sorry to hear these tales. Glad you made it thru ok with little to no damage.
I have seen the damage first hand from the brown recluse here in mississippi.. My good friend had a nasty bite on his forearm. Spent a few days in the hospital because of it.
I will be bombing the car with 2 bombs at a time. thank you
I have seen the damage first hand from the brown recluse here in mississippi.. My good friend had a nasty bite on his forearm. Spent a few days in the hospital because of it.
I will be bombing the car with 2 bombs at a time. thank you
Justin727;1380085 said:
Thanks, Justin! I REALLY feel your pain... but honestly, cannot IMAGINE the extent of what you are dealing with. I'm not intending to "over-spectacularize" the spider infestation, but I DO want to make my experience transparent lest you should lack fair warning and suffer ANYTHING like that! Be safe and hopefully, ELIMINATE that situation so you can enjoy your SUPRA!
...on another note... I actually had to shell out between $3k and $4k to cover all the medical, as I was a self-employed contract consultant at the time, and did NOT have insurance coverage!
Once again, best of luck to you!
-crisp
crisp;1380115 said:Thanks, Justin! I REALLY feel your pain... but honestly, cannot IMAGINE the extent of what you are dealing with. I'm not intending to "over-spectacularize" the spider infestation, but I DO want to make my experience transparent lest you should lack fair warning and suffer ANYTHING like that! Be safe and hopefully, ELIMINATE that situation so you can enjoy your SUPRA!
...on another note... I actually had to shell out between $3k and $4k to cover all the medical, as I was a self-employed contract consultant at the time, and did NOT have insurance coverage!
Once again, best of luck to you!
-crisp
You and me both right now.. With all the budget cuts, pay cuts, medical, dental coverage changes and rates that went up like nobodies business I had to drop it to come out with a paycheck to cover my expenses.
I will suit up correctly before I enter the infested supra. Probably wait till fall which it will get bombed daily until I can get to working on it. Spending the money on bombs is better then spending thousands in medical bills right now.:3d_frown:
Justin727;1379967 said:
Bombing isnt going to work for you. Go get a big jug of the Ortho Home Defense and spray your car down with it a few times over a couple of days. Then rinse it off with water so that you dont expose yourself to the chemical. It kills em fast
Been there done that. I bought a shitbeater Paseo and parked it in my garage. It was sitting for about 6 months before I brought it home. When I went out to look at the car the next night there were about 10 black widow webs spun from the chassis to the floor with an additional 5 in the engine bay.
crisp;1380118 said:I've GOT to believe he had a couple too many drinks... or just wasn't really thinking there! (I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt... 'cause that one just "bugged" me a bit!
-crisp
Sorry Crisp, wasn't being serious just thinking of the panic that would set in to an already paranoid person and the result of a spider dropping onto there lap and scurrying for a dark hidy hole. Yes my sense of humour is very poor and i apologize to any offended.
I kinda thought the thread was a bit of a joke to be honest, i didn't think anyone was really scared of spiders:icon_redf
sorry!
Remember they aren't out to get you, most bites occur from accidently brushing up against them or stepping on them, if you really want them gone get a few pet lizards, they will clean them all up quick smart.
p5150;1380132 said:
have that sir. thats the pump jug i used. love the sig btw.
i'm not paranoid of the spider. just the damage.
Alright well I stopped by to check on the supra after I Used said Ortho defense stuff in a big jug with pump sprayer when I first created this thread. I opened the doors didnt see any spiders greating me like I did last time.
opened the hood and nothing there. Although this seems like good new I did what our country should do and continue bombing until all things are dead and a lesson learned.
I still continued to soak the engine bay and interior and all edges, angles, and cracks of the car. Then after that was given the order to drop the payload in the car and gass out the land.
So thats done for the evening bombing will continue for the next few weeks along with soakings.
opened the hood and nothing there. Although this seems like good new I did what our country should do and continue bombing until all things are dead and a lesson learned.
I still continued to soak the engine bay and interior and all edges, angles, and cracks of the car. Then after that was given the order to drop the payload in the car and gass out the land.
So thats done for the evening bombing will continue for the next few weeks along with soakings.
completely asshole material right there
i have no fear of spiders but live by the motto
"there is only one rule and one penalty for spiders, thou shal not be seen... the penalty is death"
i will get up and kill a spider
damn near totaled my cj-5 that way, didnt get bit though:aigo:wiseco7mgt;1380012 said:
i have no fear of spiders but live by the motto
"there is only one rule and one penalty for spiders, thou shal not be seen... the penalty is death"
i will get up and kill a spider
wiseco7mgt;1380271 said:
Appreciate the comments! No offense that lingers! As with the remark and it's whimsical intent, the offense can be diffused in like time... a moment.
We are all capable of our moments of cynicism sometimes course upon the ear of another.
...and it's easy to empathize with a spider conundrum when you've shared your flesh with the decaying affect of such incident realized as mine own discomfort were.
-crisp
will do.
But I do wear gloves and a mask when handling chemicals and once everything is said and over with the car will be getting a good soaking in places thats probably hasn't been soaked before.
But I do wear gloves and a mask when handling chemicals and once everything is said and over with the car will be getting a good soaking in places thats probably hasn't been soaked before.