Husband was bitten a few years ago working in the yard cleaning palm fronds in Broward county...Ft Lauderdale.
He came in with what looked like a bite on his leg. After and hour or so it started to go into his veins, you could actually see it moving up his leg towards his groin.
We live in Weston so we went to Cleveland Clinic. nurse circled it with a marker, and sent us out to the waiting room to wait our turn. 2 hours later it had reached his groin thru the veins and I compained...loudly......a doctor heard me and took us directly to a room where he started him on antibiotics. Because he is also a diabetic....it was a tad bit more dangerous.
He was in the hospital for 12 days, his skin blistered and then ulcered and then sort of fell off. They worked hard to stop it but after 10 days the ulcers and nercrosis stopped. For 3 weeks or so his leg muscles were in terrible pain and he couldnt put any weight on it. But then...it mysteriously started to get better. He didnt have any skin grafts because it was located on the back of his lower and inside leg. The new skin gradually came back, but there is still a nasty 10 inch scar. It looked as though he had 3rd degree burns.
I took pictures...morbid I know. If I could figure how to put them on here I will. Spiders are nasty little things.....
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