Of course on the night Savannah went to bed at 10:45 I couldn't sleep. I stayed up on the computer ordering fun stuff on Shutterfly.com until about 12:15. I laid down next to my sleeping husband STILL unable to sleep. I tossed and turned until I was able to finally drift off just a little until... ouch... there was a burning, tingling feeling on the inside part of my arm just a little below my armpit. Well, I tried to ignore it, but it was getting worse and worse. I shook Brian and told him that my arm was hurting and he flipped on the light and said it looked red. I got out of bed and looked at it in better light. The whole area was pink. It continued to burn badly. I went back over to show Brian a big white blister appearing when I saw a HUGE spider in my bed!!!! It was dead since I probably killed it in my tossing and turning, but it's obvious to say I still freaked out. Trying not to wake a sleeping baby I just did that girly-silly-scared-"I just saw a spider" type crying. Soon those silly tears turned into painful tears. The bump was getting to about the size of a dime, and the area around it looked like a rash. So, since I pay big bucks for insurance, I decided to call the nurse hot line. She told me to save the spider, take a antihistamine, and put baking soda water paste on it with a band aid.
So, naturally I have spent the last 20 minutes googling about spider bites while waiting for the drowsiness of my antihistamine to kick in... I will need it since I am a still nervous about getting back into bed.
DANG... my arm hurts!
3 comments:
Wow there are a lot of posts I havent seen! Sorry about the spider bite. I had one that was horrible but I will with hold the details until after you are done dealing with yours.
It was super fun to visit with you guys! I will try to get the pics ready soon!
Friend! I'm so sorry, that is horrible. That makes me want to kill all the spiders in the world. Seriously.
I remembering going hysterical when I was bit by a black widow spider when I was in the 5th grade and for the longest time all I had was a red dot on the inside of my wrist. Pam and I were outside playing when we weren't supposed to be outside playing and the spider bite COULDN'T hurt me because I knew if I told my mom I would be more dead than that spider would have made me. I am pretty sure that Heavenly father gave me a miracle that day. I put mud on it- that's what a call to grma told me to do and it worked, I guess. The red spot is gone now.
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