Thursday, December 22, 2005
The Mystery of the Suspected Spiderbite
It's either feast or famine with posts from me, isn't it?
I had a lot of little piddly things to do on Tuesday, the last day before Christmas break started down here, but I figured I would get caught up again once the good old vacation started. I didn't feel completely well that evening, and then had a bad night, but I blamed it on eating too many of the leftover goodies Caro brought home from school.
I felt kind of weird on Wednesday, though. My wrist hurt and the skin on my upper arm burned but felt numb at the same time. And I felt achy and sort of queasy. But we had stuff to do, so I sucked it up to leap into the errands breach. When I went to put on 'go to town' clothes, though, I found I had a cluster of weird little lumps on my upper back. Upon closer inspection via Caro, there turned out to be a run of about three clusters, red and raised, but not itchy. Strange.
Running the few little shopping type errands we had just wiped me out. By the time we got home my back, chest and arm were starting to vaguely ache, as though I had been doing actual exercise or something. I was now in full fret mode, figuring something had bitten me AGAIN. (This has happened in a more minor way several times in the past few weeks.) So I went on a rampage in my bedroom, throwing out old (really old) foam padding and pulling things away from the wall so I could vacuum and spray.
All the extra activity plus the ongoing mysterious malady left me moaning around the place this morning, feeling remarkably like someone had slugged me in the back with a baseball bat. I huddled up here at the computer with a heating pad and my faithful blankie and Googled for spider bite symptoms. If you ever go to do that, and you add on a pic search as well, I recommend you use the modifier "-recluse", because I am here to tell you, THOSE images are GROSS.
Anyway, spider bite does seem to be the most likely cause of my problems. (No, not ALL my problems, just these recent ones.) I did take advantage of today's really balmy temps to take all three of the pets who sleep on my bed outside to give them a good inspection in the bright sunlight, and nothing. Nothing but slightly confused dogs and a kind of pissed off old cat.
As of this evening, the soreness is pretty much gone. Beside the bite clusters on my back, I developed two more on my upper arm and two on my chest, leaving me wondering what the HECK was going on? Was it one crazed spider on a Susan-eating rampage, or a whole bunch of tiny babies that I rolled on or something?
Or do I really want to know?
I had a lot of little piddly things to do on Tuesday, the last day before Christmas break started down here, but I figured I would get caught up again once the good old vacation started. I didn't feel completely well that evening, and then had a bad night, but I blamed it on eating too many of the leftover goodies Caro brought home from school.
I felt kind of weird on Wednesday, though. My wrist hurt and the skin on my upper arm burned but felt numb at the same time. And I felt achy and sort of queasy. But we had stuff to do, so I sucked it up to leap into the errands breach. When I went to put on 'go to town' clothes, though, I found I had a cluster of weird little lumps on my upper back. Upon closer inspection via Caro, there turned out to be a run of about three clusters, red and raised, but not itchy. Strange.
Running the few little shopping type errands we had just wiped me out. By the time we got home my back, chest and arm were starting to vaguely ache, as though I had been doing actual exercise or something. I was now in full fret mode, figuring something had bitten me AGAIN. (This has happened in a more minor way several times in the past few weeks.) So I went on a rampage in my bedroom, throwing out old (really old) foam padding and pulling things away from the wall so I could vacuum and spray.
All the extra activity plus the ongoing mysterious malady left me moaning around the place this morning, feeling remarkably like someone had slugged me in the back with a baseball bat. I huddled up here at the computer with a heating pad and my faithful blankie and Googled for spider bite symptoms. If you ever go to do that, and you add on a pic search as well, I recommend you use the modifier "-recluse", because I am here to tell you, THOSE images are GROSS.
Anyway, spider bite does seem to be the most likely cause of my problems. (No, not ALL my problems, just these recent ones.) I did take advantage of today's really balmy temps to take all three of the pets who sleep on my bed outside to give them a good inspection in the bright sunlight, and nothing. Nothing but slightly confused dogs and a kind of pissed off old cat.
As of this evening, the soreness is pretty much gone. Beside the bite clusters on my back, I developed two more on my upper arm and two on my chest, leaving me wondering what the HECK was going on? Was it one crazed spider on a Susan-eating rampage, or a whole bunch of tiny babies that I rolled on or something?
Or do I really want to know?
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