rrbrown

Just got out the hospital after a week stay on hevy duty antibiotics around the clock. So that makes 9 spider bites. still have like 3 weeks to recover and some 7 days worth of oral antibiotics 2 a day for 7 days the prescription is like $1400. on the bright side I went 17 months since my last bite. I had 3 in that time frame before.

die spider die!

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Gene Howe

In the several visits I've made to BR and environs, I find it a beautiful place with wonderful people. But, if I were you, I'd consider moving to a less spider infested locale.
AZ deserts have a few, but I've never been bitten. My boys had a couple of pet Tarantulas and several scorpions in the house. One boy got bitten once. A scorpion got loose and was hiding in the crotch of his cut offs. That was PAINFUL! And scary. I guess there was no permanent damage as he's fathered two kids. Whew!

Gene

John in Tennessee

and sent me home. Home health had me infusionmyself. No needles the drugs were in a bottle like a baby bottle. I plugged it to my Picc line and all was well. The cost of the drugs was $183 a day. I had about 10 days worth. I had to toss them.It killed me to throw yhem away.

cabinetman

You might pick a better place to bivouac. I may be wrong but I understood all spiders to be venomous to some degree. How toxic they are and how sensitive we are is the question. Sorry to hear you went through this experience. It could have been much worse.

rrbrown

He got me in my shop while building and assembling drawers for a friends cabinet. He likes them by the way I had to call from the hospital to make sure.

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rrbrown

Unfortunately I have no spleen or immune system because of no spleen add that to other gulf war related problems and the venom gets me but the bacteria from them is going to kill me.

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Chad

Are these Black widows, or do you have problems with all spiders? I get bitten a couple times a year by wolf spiders and just get a lump, that itches for days. I feel for you and speedy recovery.

rrbrown

Actually its like 6 or 7 black widows and the rest are wolf spiders but without a spleen and my other medical problems same thing just not as severe. I might stay just the night in hospital or once I even just stayed home with only oral antibiotics. I have been wearing long pants and compression socks because all the veins in my lower legs and ankles are damaged, this one day I went in the shop in shorts.

My new plan is as follows

A sign on shop door "NO PANTS NO ENTRY" to remind me.

Vacuum shop for spiders at least once a week and blow off my patio area at the same time.

Spray weekly for the spiders.

These pictures are from last time but bite this time is in same place.

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woodnthings

My sympathy is with you. I know we had this discussion here before, but there is either a mechanical, chemical or an electronic solution to this. Mechanical= see 'em, kill 'em. Chemical=spray everywhere with (toxic?) solutions and then there is this:
http://www.spidercontrol1.com/index.htm I don't know if it works, but it would be worth a try compared to what you have been going through. I Googled spider control FYI and this is what came up. There maybe other types I donno? bill
For a spider control company there is this one:
http://www.bulwarkpestcontrol.com/sp...l-solution.php

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ohwoodeye

Very nice wooden leg. Is that made of bubinga or bloodwood. How did you attach the hairs?

Hope you are feeling better.

rrbrown

Thanks guys I'm actually doing better then any other time now. They wrapped it witha medicated compression bandage (UNNU Boot) and I actually can walk and move with little pain which is has always been the opposite for at least 3 - 4 weeks.

Bill yes we had this discussion before the electronic thing won't work because of my 5 dogs. Sprays work just long enough until more move in from the acres of woods that surround my subdivision. No I'm convinced My plan will work as long as I don't get stupid and forget the rules.

Another funny thing is I never use pain pills or pain medicine unless like I'm in surgery or ICU. I always request nothing after that and just deal with the pain. The only thing I can't deal with are migraines since I use my head to control the pain normally. This time I said hell with it knock me out. Well the very pain killers they used caused me severe neck pain, headaches, itching and generally feel like crapola.
I suffered 10 times more with there pain killers. NEVER AGAIN.

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Nate1778

Dude I would have a case of bug bombs in the shop, set one off every night as you leave. Man I got spiders, but nothing like that.

woodnthings

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/spiders.htm
Have we definitely established that the electronic repeller is a problem with the dogs hearing? I use one in my attic which I can hear myself and my dog doesn't seem annoyed by it. If yours is in the detached shop I wouldn't think that would be a problem for your dogs, but I'd like to see a warning on the device..."Harmful to animals, dogs, cats, pets...etc." The idea of these chemicals doesn't strike me as all that safe either. You know? bill

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rrbrown

Thanks for the link Bill, yes i have one that lives in the shop building and three of the others or chihuahuas which have very good hearing. I talked to that company and it would bother them. My spider problem is not confined to the shop but the patio and even the house. That said most of the black widows are in the shop and or the patio area not the house. Wolf spiders, Brown Recluse and a Brown Widow have been in the house by the patio door. The chemicals are bad to but I can spray and keep them away for the drying time. I called one company that guarantees to get rid of spiders but they don't service Louisiana. They did give me this link which has some good stuff for spiders so they say.

www.pestprojoe.com

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rrbrown

No wooden leg yet but my kids and wife were just saying I'm going to need one soon.

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woodnthings

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Originally Posted by ohwoodeye
Very nice wooden leg. Is that made of bubinga or bloodwood. How did you attach the hairs?

Hope you are feeling better.

No wooden leg yet but my kids and wife were just saying I'm going to need one soon.
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Butch

...listen Marine...it's time to call out a fire mission on those doods... I'd use any/all methods at my disposal... that's not good for you to be bitten so many times.... time for an aerosol assult,I'd say...

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frankp

rrbrown, I was going to say that looks like a brown recluse bite... those little buggers are frickin nasty. Their bites cause necrosis of the tissues around the bite... pretty gross. It's a lot like a cottonmouth?? (I think cottonmouth, maybe copperhead) snake. I knew a guy that just had a sunken hole in his calf from getting bitten by one of those... weird to see his skin stretched across a complete hole in his leg where there was no other tissue.

I think if I had reactions like that, I'd have to find a different place to live.

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wfahey

I with Butch, Nuke the B@stards!

We get a lot of spiders on the boat. I've been bit a few times but nothing like what you've endured. I look for them at dusk and spray the webs. They are usually hanging in thier webs in the morning. I knock down those webs and look again at dusk. After a weekend I usually have them under control. It last for about a month and a half and then I have to do it again.

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