Reptile Clan Rescue

Spider bites hurt more than snake bites!

posted by Reptile Clan @ 10:53pm, Monday 18 January 2010.

I got bit by some sort of spider last week, and noticed a small bite area with a raised head, which looked to me like an ant bite. I treated it with a poltice to try to draw it out, but that just seemed to make it worse. Went to the doctor's office on Friday, and he gave me antibitoics (Cipro) and said if it didn't get better by Monday, go to the ER. Went to the ER this morning, they cut it open drained more pus out of it, and injected me with another antibiotic, and gave me an additional antibiotic to take.

Did I mention my hand is sore as hell and throbs when I type? At least you know what I've been dealing with for the last few days lol! The pics go from day 2 to day 10, which is today. Squeezed out at least a ketchup cup full of pus so far! I'd take a bite from my retic or burmese python ANY day over this...heck I'd take 10 python bites over this!

This type of wound is nothing to mess around with. It compares with the bite of a cottonmouth. Neurotoxic...just isn't neurologic like the cottonmouth is, thankfully. Which means it attacks the flesh, not the nervous system. Let me tell you, it's hard to clean snake cages and feed snakes and lizards with one hand! Anyway, just had to share my pain, so to speak.