Did anyone know that there are poisonous spiders in Alaska? Gerrit and I certainly didn’t, until we both had encounters with them. Mine happened earlier this summer on the back of my thigh. It started out feeling like an irritated hair follicle, then spread to about a softball sized lump with a pussy center (delightful I know). Gerrit was bitten by what we now know is “The Hobo” spider a few weeks ago on his knee cap, while crawling underneath the house he was working on at the time. We watched the bite grow from what looked like a minor irritation to a full scale staph infection. His entire leg ended up swelling to three times the normal size, and when his lymph nodes became infected, we had to take a trip to the ER! Why did we let it go so far? you may wonder. I suggested dealing with the scarier bite a little earlier in the process, but we never thought it would turn into staph. What Gerrit has now is a pretty good sized hole in his knee, which has shrunk signigicantly since our trip to the ER. So, for anyone with morbid fascinations, I will attach some photos of the nasty doings of the Hobo spider.
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