[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: spider story

[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

Shaun wrote
> Second story - much tamer, much more long lasting. About ten years ago, I
was
> bitten on the toe by a white tailed spider, which is one of those
necrotising ones.
> My toe is still infected by what it did - every couple of weeks it swells
up to twice
> normal size, and because radically painful. It also looks horrible - the
only way
> they can deal with it for certain is amputation - fortunately only of the
big toe. For
> some reason, the infection doesn't spread so we've left it for the
moment - I'd
> really like to keep my toe. And a couple of times we've come pretty close
to
> beating the infection.

Aren't they awful? We've got white tails everywhere here. They just love to
hide in clothing and bed linen, and I removed one only a day ago from my
kitties' litter box. We used to live in a suburb known affectionately by the
locals as "Redback Hill". Every morning I had to go around the outside of
the house armed with a shoe to kill the redbacks underneath the window
sills, and on the kids swings and slides. Urk. I was a Family Day Care
provider; all I needed was a case of redback bite!

Nox