Re: Pineapple cheese refrigerator pie recipe

On 11/2/2024 9:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-02 9:17 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

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

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   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.
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   songbird

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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.

  My son was bitten by a spider in Bolivia about 5 years ago. He thought nothing of it at the time but it was getting worse and worse after he got home. He went to a walk-in clinic and was prescribed antibiotics. They didn't help. He made an appointment with his family doctor and was prescribed more antibiotics.
 One night he was headed home from an afternoon shift and popped in the ER where we was treated by a doctor who had interned in an area where brown recluse spiders live. He had surgery for it the next day. They had to scoop out the flesh and then pull his wound closed. The massive scar tissue required massage for months. It's all healed up now but he has a very large and very ugly scar there now.
 

As your son found out, a bite from a spider is not something to be ignored.  I don't let spiders hang out in my house.  There are a few little harmless garden spiders that find their way in; I pick them up and toss them outside.  But sorry (songbird) I'll spray pesticides all over the exterior to keep them from coming inside my house.
Jill
Jill