----- Original Message ----- From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: RE: advice for the lovelorn
> > From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > >GSV I love New York. I love New York. I love New York. <repeat ad > > >infinitum> > > > > Do they have brown recluse spiders up there? > > That's funny! That's exactly what I was thinking. I lived in an apartment > infested with brown recluses for about 2 1/2 years about 8 years ago. > Brrrrr!!!! That was very scary. Especially the part about the management > not really caring all that much! > > I don't believe there are recluses in the northeast. I never heard of them > until I came to St. Louis. And didn't put the name together with those > little brown spiders that were all over our apartment until we'd been in > there for about a year. I always figured they were big tarantula sorts of > spiders. Nope. Then one of my friends had a problem with them and told me > what they looked like. Hmmmm, I said, that sounds an awful lot like what we > kill on a regular basis in our apartment! Aaaahhhhhh!!!!! > > Not a fun experience. Though I did read an article a few weeks ago that > said that brown recluses might not be as deadly as is commonly thought. > Something about there not being a single recorded fatality from a recluse > bite and the fact that lots of reports of recluse bites from from states > where there aren't any brown recluses! So the research believed that > doctors are misdiagnosising other skin conditions as recluse bites. > > I don't know. I'm just glad I haven't seen one for 8 years! > Ackkkkkk!!!!!! The bite of a brown recluse can cause your flesh to rot and fester. A guy that worked for me last year had been bitten by a brown recluse a couple of months before. The spot where he had been bitten was a deep pit in his flesh about 1 1/2" x 3" x 1 1/2" deep. The skin in the area was weepy and scabby and definitely looked unhealed. Very nasty looking! Brown recluse is very common in this part of Texas. They don't make good neighbors. <G> xponent Spiderman Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
