Primula

That's not bad at all.

Jerseygirl

I'm surprised he didn't lose his leg. The lady at the Smithsonian said her college friend was bitten on the arm by one whilst she was walking in the woods. She had to have her arm amputated.

Uncle Ebenezer

I think a lot depends on how soon you get first treatment - apparently, you rarely know you've been bitten, until a while later, when it wells up. By then, the necrosis has already started.

cindyabs

My friend got bitten in the small of her back. She didn't think anything of it, but then of course she couldn't see it. then a week later, she woke up and couldn't move her legs. long story short, a month in the hospital, hooked up to a vacuum pump....permanent nerve damage.

AZ_Alba

I have been stung twice here in AZ no big issue, but my son was stung last summer when he was a year and a half old. Phoned poison control and had to have him transported to hospital as he started hyper-salivating, there they gave him four shots of the anti-venom which had just been FDA approved which after 30 minutes had counteracted the venom. If they had not had the anti venom then they would have had to paralyze him for a couple of days and given him anti psychotic drugs.

If some one is stung or bitten call poison control straight away, keep their number on the fridge. Before the suggestions that has nothing to do with my wife's cooking.

Yorkieabroad

Sorry Weeze....we're not that far from you....neighbour up the road gets scorpions in her garage regularly......the park on Peek just north of Fry is notorious for Black Widows under the playset.....and ....no....I'll save the bit about the copperheads for later....too much all at once.....

scrubbedexpat097

She can't hear you, she left on the late afternoon flight to LHR

lisa67

Never seen a brown recluse up here, just the widows!
And I know they hide in bedding so it's best not to make up and spare beds you have until the night before you're due to have guests.

Weeze

Not the barn park just off Emily Park??? I've over scorpions now as I'm presuming they mostly will hide in my garage. Now my main panic is the spiders that try to kill me while I sleep

Yorkieabroad

No, the other one - head along fry and turn right on Peek and its a half mile up there on the left. We used to spend a lot of time there when the kids were younger, especially in the summer because of the shade from the big trees. Used to go to the barn park a lot too....kids used to love the splashpad there. Ahh, bringing back memories!

I don't think the spiders will get you at night - thats more likely to be the cockroaches that crawl into open mouths looking for moisture and end up choking the host.....

Weeze

I'm beginning to regret evicting Larry the lizard from the bedroom

Yorkieabroad

Too right - they are your absolute best friends around here. They eat all sorts of nasties! Almost as good as having a toddler!

SATX John

Absolutely right Brown recluse are nasty and must be attended to in the first couple hours.

I have had soldiers with the same damage, one was bitten on the neck, didn't know it and had a lot of damage, another his leg like that guy on the calf.

Mr Weeze

Tee hee hee! Weeze was telling me all about nasties last night - now I know why!

MadRad

A fellow expat friend of mine got bitten by a brown recluse on her first day here. She was lucky though and had no lasting damage.

I had my first black widow experience the other day. I was shifting boxes in the unfinished bit of our basement and disturbed it. I got one hell of a fright, back in the UK I used to just put spiders outside but here I'm taking no chances.