On Tuesday night, I picked up an ice chest that had been sitting in my car port for a while. I opened it up to look inside. I saw a small, black spider with white spots (kinda black with a white frosted look) crawl from the handle area to the inside of the cooler. I didn’t think anything of it. I mashed it and went on.

The next day at work, I had what looked like a small ant bite came up on my right index finger. On Thursday, the finger was a little red. Me and some buddies had plans to go to Tennessee on Friday. By Friday afternoon, the finger was still red and started swelling. A nurse was with us and I had her look at it on Saturday morning. She said it was definitely a spider bite and I needed to get it looked at. We left coming home on Sunday, a day early. On Monday morning I say my doctor.

The finger was red and severely swollen. He did some cutting around the bite area and prescribed some antibiotics. On Tuesday the finger started turning black and the wound was oozing clear liquid. By Wednesday morning, I was in agony. The wound was oozing a solid yellow material and my hand started turning black. I went back to my doctor and he immediately referred me to the hospital. A surgeon looked at it and within one hour I was being prepped for surgery.

He cut my finger from the first knuckle to the second and scraped all the infected tissue out. The wound was packed with gauze because he wanted it to heal from the inside out. The surgeon told me he would be surprised if I got all the motion back in my finger because the infection was so severe. He said he was very close to amputating the finger.

I was in the hospital for four days hooked up to I.V. antibiotics. The dressing on the finger was changed daily. On Sunday I was released from the hospital with a prescription for a super strong antibiotic. Did physical therapy every day for the first week. Then three times a week for the next two. I’m going on my fourth week post-op now.

The wound is almost healed and I have nearly all the mobility in my finger back although it is still swollen.

If you have any idea as to what kind of spider this might have been, please let me know.

Thanks!

It is a deep reddish purple color and hurts and itches. I have been taking benadryl…No help. My whole calf hurts. I have seen 2 different Doctors. One told me it was not a bug bite and it was just nothing. He didn’t really have an explanation and the other one flat out said he has no idea what it is.

I am at a loss. I just want to know what it is so I can make it go away!!

Help!

I read an article on bed bugs and figured that was what he had. He took a trip to the dermatologist’s office and he also was not able to diagnose. The dermatologist wanted my husband to come in immediately should the spots flare up again, as he was was curious about this situation.

As I said above, I do believe what he has now is scarring from bed bug bites (I am happy to report that he did not bring any critters home with him), but my only question is - do the bite marks flare up or come and go - because his redness and itchiness seems to and we can’t quite pin point the cause??

I would love to hear back on this.

I am curious as to how to protect myself and the kids from getting it from him. i am disinfecting alot, and using a lot of precautions, but i have herd it can be airborne. does anyone know exactly how it can be spread??

Because it has been two months, you should see a Lyme specialist as soon as possible. Most doctors know nothing about Lyme disease so you really need to see a Lyme specialist (Lyme Literate M.D., or LLMD) for treatment.

You can find one on the Lyme Disease Association Doctor Referral page:

Good luck.

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Katelyn

I have been spending a fortune on melathion liquid, using it way more than is recommended. I have covered my mattress and pillows in plastic. I have been washing and ironing and drying like a lunatic. I always bath and wear clean clothes… and still i have them!

what i don’t get is if they are this easy to catch, and this (seemingly) difficult to get rid of, why aren’t millions more people affected? Next step for me is ripping up the carpets and maybe throwing out the sofa. I HAVE to get rid of this… it’s completely and utterly ruining my life :o(