So here's the story, 3 or 4 weeks ago I got bit by a small brown spider (size of a US nickel) with a fiddle marking on it's back. It hurt but not too bad, swelled, but not too bad, then that night I quit sleeping, and started having nightmares and hallucinations. I kept hallucinating that someone was coming in the back door, I even had to keep getting out of bed and touch the door to convince myself that it was closed. I hallucinated that Rob was trying to kill me, that there were gorillas in my living room (I was sitting in the living room at the time and didn't see any, but I was sure they were there), that monkeys were stealing my truck, and something about my cat but I don't remember what that was exactly (all this while awake). Then my finger started swelling and breaking out in blisters. This spread, to my palm, other fingers and arm, and now my other hand???

After a month, because Karen & Rob were going to throw me out if I didn't and it looked like I might die or loose my hand, I finally went to the doctor. It probably didn't help that I had been working 30-50 hours a week in a seed lab with moldy corn at the time too.

I went to the med center today ... that was an ordeal. First the community health center, they have a 2-3 MONTH wait (and still offered to book me an appointment, I told them by then I'd be better or dead, in hindsight maybe should have taken them up on that appointment.), then the med center where we worked out payment plan. So for $50 down & $22 more next week, I got a doctor to spend 3 minutes to tell me, that it looks awful and must hurt and then give me prescriptions. One's an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal cream, the other some antibiotics, that cost another $50. But hopefully they'll get the job done. He did say that I may have been bitten by a spider but that alone wouldn't cause this reaction.

My poor index finger is bigger around then my thumb and doesn't even look like an index finger any more :(

There are gross pictures at the bottom of the page. So you can see what I'm dealing with. If they're too gross I'll remove them, but remember, this is my hand we're talking about, I have to live with it ...and neither of these show the original bite site.

It doesn't even look like an index finger but I assure you it is.

Bad spider, no cookie..

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