Who knew spiders can bite?
Let me tell all of you, spiders can and will bite you while you sleep, and it happened to me. Gross!
Please read on...
Each time I get sick in my travels, I just feel dumber and dumber. This is because I have the amazing knack for running into trouble in comparatively safe places.
Sucre is an immaculate, white, colonial city in southern Bolivia in which I currently live. It is not the jungle. There is no reason at all that I should have been attacked by a spider. Unfortunately, I´m just lucky like that.
I knew spiders where around in my hostal. I also knew that I tossed and turned all night long because my stupid bed is on slats and has a soft mattress, and my back kills every morning. As it happens, a very very large brown spider had been living just behind my bedboards. One day last week, I woke up with a super large red elevated area on my upper back, which I took for an inflamed back zit.
Less than a week later, my red mark had only grown. Then, I saw him. He was positioned between the headboard and the wall, and waited silently, almost tauntingly, for me. A huge brown spider, maybe half a foot long, right behind the side of the bed I had been sleeping on.
I did what any normal, bitten individual would do in this situation. I waited till Liz left the room, and burned the spider mercilously with a candle. Then I stomped him. Then I burned him again.
Two days later, the bite finally swelled and burst. You can oh so clearly see two bite marks on my bike, of an impressive size. My back still hurts, and my muscles are noticeably sore, but I have at least treated the bite with disinfectant and things.
Amazing. Only I could possibly pull off such an injury in the center of a city. Stupid spider.
i believe what you're supposed to do when you get bit by a spider is go get that shit checked out and bring the [dead] spider with you so they know what bit you.
Posted by: albert | April 28, 2005 at 11:42 AM