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Originally Posted by The Seduction of Art
Spiders never worried me too much until I heard about another cartoonist who got bit by a brown recluse spider. His leg looked like this:
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A few years ago my roommate got bit by a spider in the back of his knee while playing paintball in the woods. At first it was fine but within a couple of days he was in ungodly pain and the back of his knee was a purple swelling mess. I ended up taking him to the emergency room and they told me if I had waited even another hour whatever the infection was could have reached his heart and kill him. He was in the hospital for 5 days and was told they may need to flay open or amputate the leg. He responded to antibiotics thank god and kept the leg. They weren't even sure what the hell caused the reaction. It was really scary and made me even more scared of spiders.