Re: Pineapple cheese refrigerator pie recipe

On 11/2/2024 8:29 AM, songbird wrote:

    i've not seen any black widows here or any of the
brown recluse.  those are the ones that can cause
problems if you get bit.
     songbird

My oldest brother (lives in Texas) was bitten by a brown recluse.  He was also diabetic.  He would not go to a doctor.  Kept saying he couldn't afford it.  His then live-in g/f called me in a panic.  I said call an ambulance!  They can't refuse to treat him!  The area around the bite necrotized and he wound up having his leg amputated below the knee.   He continued to ignore his diabetes, too, even though I found a number of free clinics in his area.  A couple of years later he wound up having his other leg amputated.  He now lives in a nursing home.  We still talk on the phone.  But things could have turned out very differently if he (or his g/f) had simply hauled his ass to the hospital ASAP.
Jill