My Right Nipple
Let me first say that I had a picture that I was going to post, but at the begging of Sunette, I decided against it. Why would I put my right nipple on my blog? Because I apparently got bitten by a spider or something equally small and ferocious, right on it. It is sore as a got-down-sat-in-the-ditch, red as all get out and is kinda hard to the touch. I’m not sure how I got it, but I was rummaging through the storage room earlier in the day. Maybe it was a brown recluse, or a black widow. Either way I think I’ve got about 36 hours left, or my nipple’s going to fall off, one of the two. So anybody think I should get it checked out before my nipple and I part ways?
Categories: Science
This totally reminds me of the time I was researching treatments for bug bites on the internet, and came across some kind of medical forum where people had posted photos of their snake, bug, and animal bites (some of them mind-blowing and horrific). About half-way down a thread had a LOT of activity and so I clicked through to see what was up. Turns out a guy had posted a photo of his bite that was making him sick, only to have somebody tell him that he needs to get to a hospital ASAP because the bite looked like a brown recluse spider bite, which is a very serious problem. The guy eventually came back and posted that had he not taken the advice he was given to seek treatment, the doctor told him that they might have had to cut all the infected tissue off! So maybe posting the photo to the internets is not such a bad thing after all!
Dave,
I googled brown recluse and was sobered by some of the bite pics I saw. Let me say that I have absolutely no idea what bit me, since I never actually felt a bite. The problem is that without the perpetrator, there’s no way to know what it was, and really not a lot of treatment for it; from what I’ve read. Hmmmm…it happened on Saturday and is looking a little better so I’m gonna wait and see.