It’s true. You can get a spider bite in BC. A recluse spider bite. Recluse spiders are extremely poisonous. I got bitten by one, most likely the brown recluse spider, on September 03, 2013 at about 5:45 p.m. and almost 3 months later the resulting wound is still open, my foot and leg is very swollen and I can’t walk nor can I fit my injured foot into any shoe because it’s so big and also painful and sensitive.
The video further down the page shows me walking by the use of crutches 17 days after the spider bite. The doctor at the walk in clinic to which I went 17 days after being bitten and 3 days after being (ill)treated at the hospital was very pleasant and did his best to help.
His attitude was a million times better than what I found inside the hospital emergency. The reception at the hospital emergency was OK but the emergency itself is another story.
At this point I want to express my immense gratitude to my good and dear friends one of which took me to the clinic and another to the hospital. They continue to give me rides to doctors appointments as I cannot drive because of the injury.
One of my friends also took this video of me. He should have held the smart phone horizontally to get a full screen picture but I didn’t notice how he held it and he’s not a video person. I’m grateful for at least this level of video but if you don’t like the format I don’t blame you and I apologize.
In the video I suggest to everyone to kill spiders on sight. It’s up to you what you do with them. I used to often carefully take them out to spare their life. At least at this point, still unable to walk and in pain I can’t even do that even if I wanted to. When my foot is back to normal I may get over it and release the spiders that I find in the house alive.
I’m now more skilled in walking with the crutches. I just got them when the video was taken by my friend. If you get a laugh out of watching me struggling to walk with them that’s OK.
Watch the video below to see how a spider bite can disable a person:
Hospital Emergency Treat Spider Bites
With Antibiotics.
That’s All They do.
It takes 6 weeks to several months to get to see a specialist In BC.
I went to a hospital emergency 2 weeks after being bitten. The reason for the delay in going there was that I read on the internet that hospitals don’t really help with this kind of injury and in some cases have made matters much worse. (Yes, to the point of starting to discuss amputation).
It was only because of my wife and friends who were pleading with me to go to the hospital that I finally went there.
The experience at the hospital emergency in British Columbia was, on the whole, at least as horrible as you can imagine. I won’t go into everything that happened there right now, except that all those internet sites describing what happens to a person going to a hospital emergency with this kind of injury were right when they said that the only thing a person is given there is antibiotics.
There is no anti-poison or anti-venom for the brown recluse spider bite and it is precisely the poison or the venom from the spider that does the damage.
(I took the video of my foot which you can see just below yesterday, December 03,2013, exactly three months after the spider bite. What you see there is the spider venom damage, there is no infection.)
And the damage is severe. The spider venom which is very similar to snake venom basically liquifies the body tissues that it gets to. It turns them into mush. The venom eats through you and leaves a lot of damage destroying your veins, skin and flesh.
Although there are people who know how to treat brown recluse spider bites, they are apparently not to be found in BC and in fact in most hospitals in North America the treatment that apparently works is not used and it is often denied even when asked for.
People that know how to treat these bites are usually vets and they are in the United States in the states where these spiders commonly live. It seems that the brown recluse spiders are now living well beyond these known areas in places where they are not supposed to live, like in BC and California.
The problem in the states where the spiders are acknowledged to live and even more so in BC is, that medical doctors are largely ignorant about how to treat these spider bites effectively.
Worse yet, they won’t listen to anybody who refers them to the information about a treatment that has been done with good results. So even in the United States it is very likely that the doctor, the hospital emergency you’ll visit, will only give you antibiotics and nothing else.
While antibiotics can prevent an infection, they are totally useless when it comes to neutralizing or getting rid of the poison which the spider has injected.
In BC the hospital emergency gave me an antibiotic drip and a prescription for a week’s supply of oral antibiotics, saying that I should come or go for another antibiotic drip the next day.
The doctor at the hospital emergency was the only doctor there and being very busy refused to look at the treatment that tens of people have had a success with and that I was asking for.
She promised to look at it the next day. I doubt that she looked at it as there is a different doctor in the emergency every day and, of course, I was never contacted by her to be told that she looked at it or anything else.
I was convinced that I had no infection from the spider bite and that was confirmed by the labs results after 4 days in which no bacterial growth from the swab test was found.
By the way the blood test showed a lower count of white blood cells than normal which any doctor should know means that there is no infection. High count of white blood cells would indicate the opposite.
But I was pumped with antibiotics anyway and was told to get another drip of them the next day.
There must be good money from antibiotics. Just one week’s supply of the oral prescription of them cost around $40.
Anyway, here I am, 3 months less 2 days since suffering the spider bite and after visiting a hospital emergency and making 4 or 5 visits to doctors I have not experienced any helpful results.
The last visit was with a specialist. The waiting time to get to the specialist was more than 6 weeks.
The specialist that I really wanted to see was booking for January and February of next year.
I am very sorry to have to write about the disturbing fact here, which is that the Health Care in British Columbia, Canada, the BC Medical system can’t treat spider bites in the 21st century.
Perhaps in the Middle Ages the level of care and treatment could not have been much worse.
I hope that you’ll never get a spider bite and should you be as unfortunate as me in this case and suffer the affliction, I hope that you’ll find a doctor who is not ignorant about how to treat it.
I strongly suggest that you go to a hospital emergency right away but make sure you ask them how they will treat the spider bite. If the only thing they offer you is antibiotics I suggest, if you believe that your wound is not infected, that you leave right away and find somewhere else where they can treat it properly.
Otherwise you’ll end up like me being injured and unable to walk for months. It will be 3 months on December 03, 2013 since I was bitten. The specialist told me that it will be many more months before the wound heals and I can walk again. He refused to tell me how many months.
By the way, the hospital emergency kicked me out of the hospital close to midnight and I had to ask them 3 times to at least bandage my wound before I go. They were telling me to leave with the open wound uncovered.
I won’t relate the whole story but the male nurse that was giving me the antibiotics drip infected my hand with the needle which he touched after spitting into his hand and then used it to pierce the vein in my left hand several times but he wasn’t successful in placing it into the vein firmly.
As he was trying to make the vein pop up and to get bigger, he hit my hand in the area of the vein several times with a dull object. Finally he succeeded finding a vein that was able to fix the needle in on my right arm, on the other side of the elbow.
There is more to the story but I’ll leave it out as it contains more horrible behavior by the male nurse and the other staff there.
I have finally decided to speak up about this because nobody that I encounter has ever heard of this kind of a spider bite in BC. People are shocked and can’t believe that the injury can be so severe and that the medical system is totally helpless and ignorant about how to properly treat it.
I am doing this in order to make people aware and hopefully to help them to take a more informed action. My experience has so far taught me that the system as such doesn’t care.
You can’t just go to a specialist. You have to be referred to him or her by another doctor. And when you are referred to them, it takes many weeks but more often several months before that specialist sees you.
That kind of time frame is useless, unhelpful and downright dangerous with a spider bite injury. All the damage will be done by that time.
The medical system, at least the way I experienced it in BC with this injury is totally useless and doesn’t really care about your health and well being.
I wish you all good health and to never need the services of the health care system.
Now it’s time for you to comment on what you’ve just read and seen in the video above.
Have you ever heard of poisonous spider bites in the area where you live?
If so, how were they treated? How was the person suffering the bite affected?
What do you think of the health care or medical system in the country, state or province where you live?
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Authored by Vance Sova
Filed under: Random Stuff-News-Views-Rants
Most of us fear just having a spider in sight, in the event one is bitten, I’d be horrified if medication and treatment is delayed as such.
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mickel marketer Reply:
January 7th, 2014 at 12:27 am
oh my god i hate spiders
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I had arachnophobia since childhood. I have fairly overcome that fear, but still sometimes I get a shiver seeing a larger than normal spider. And spider biting! Oh my God that is horrible. I am noticing that spider infestation is on the rise in urban settlements, but I can not decide what is causing this increase.
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btw read the email and came back. Well read your bio. And actually I am amazed. Because you have done everything I want to do! Travel, enjoy, have many blogs, play tennis and all that besides being related to electronics. I am an electronics engineer, recently graduated actually. And I have many plans. Thanks
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The future of world healthcare institutins is something that concerns me – the services are geting more and more automatized, patient is depersonified, just a number. Some doctors make decisions as textbook machines. Thankfully, there are still doctors who look at a patient as a human being,they are just harder to find.
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I have arachnophobia too but i managed to recover from it
thanks good .. thank you for this informative article
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Technology is helping in a great way to find ways to cure the diseases that were considered incurable once. So, this is not a big deal.
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Vance Reply:
December 24th, 2013 at 10:19 am
Hi Melissa,
What an insensitive and really stupid comment to make. Would you be saying this if you had to go through this yourself? I bet you didn’t even read the whole article and watched the videos. If you did and you could still make this kind of comment you are a sadistic creep.
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I am glad here in Spain there are no that kind of spiders. Moreover, when I was a child I had some bad experiences with spiders and I have a deep arachnophobia.
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Vance Reply:
December 24th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Hi Burguera,
You are lucky not to have brown recluse spiders in Spain and I hope they will never get there on a ship or an airplane which is always a possibility. To be afraid of spiders is good. That makes a person more cautious and less likely to get bitten.
Thanks for the cool comment my friend.
Vance.
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Shocking story! I am glad we don’t have “biting” spiders in the Netherlands at least not untill someone forgets to close their aquarium… Anyway spider bites can be hard to treat but indeed in the 21th century you would expect to have professionals close by and available. I think just with organs waiting lists are getting too long…
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Vance Reply:
December 24th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Hi Ferdi,
I’m glad you don’t have these spiders in the Netherlands and I hope you will never have them. That can’t be totally for sure though as things are spreading with trucks ships and airplanes. The experts still say that we don’t have them here either, nor in Oregon nor in California and yet people get bitten by them in all those places.
I think that when these spiders spread wider and wider, some company will figure out that there could be some money made and will develop an anti venom. They haven’t bothered to do that so far.
Thanks for commenting.
Vance.
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Hi Vance,
What a story! I am quite surprised by how you were treated, though the unwillingness of doctors to look into working therapies doesn’t – I have heard many stories of this happening with all kinds of diseases, perhaps being trained to dismissed anything that didn’t get to them through medical training, though luckily not all doctors are like that.
I hope your wound is doing better. I know how slow the system can be, at least in Spain where I am from. I once got sick with an infection caused by food poisoning. After failing to do anything to help me, my doctor finally got me an appointment with a specialist, 3 months later. The specialist ordered some tests, also several months later, and to see the specialist again for the results, another several months. Since the time I first visited my doctor until I got some medication, it was about 1 year during which I missed most of school and lost a lot of weight.
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Vance Reply:
December 28th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Hi Pau, thank you for the nice comment.
I was very surprised too. I was surprised that there was only one doctor in the whole hospital emergency. I wasn’t too surprised that they didn’t do anything except for giving me antibiotics because I was warned about that on the internet. But I was surprised that they got rid of me less than an hour before midnight and had I not protested they would have not even bandaged my wound before kicking me out.
Not all doctors are bad. I think that most of them are victims of the system. The system itself is pathetic, grossly overpriced and nearly useless. Entirely useless for people who suffer a brown recluse spider bite.
My wound is starting to get a bit better but that is thanks to a naturopathic treatment which as you may guess is not covered by the health insurance at all. The medical doctors and specialists have entirely failed and even though all of them made money from the system because of my visits, I am the one who has to pay into the system through insurance and through taxes that has not been helped by the system at all. And I have to pay again out of my pocket for the only treatment that seems to work but which the health care system doesn’t cover at all.
The medical system as it is, at least here, is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies who make obscene profits from it whether they help anybody or not. They seem to control the universities and schools that produce the doctors that come out of them. More often than not they turn out to be prescribing the drugs the pharmaceutical companies make.
I think no more needs to be said about the medical system. It is obviously not designed to serve the patients but the drug companies pockets.
A working medical system would cover any treatment that helps the patient. A working medical system wouldn’t kick out people in the middle of the night out of a Hospital Emergency without at least bandaging their wound and referring the patient to a specialist that would see them within 24 to 48 hours and not in 3 months or longer.
They say over here that things are better in Europe than in North America when it comes to health care but your story indicates that not everything is working as it should there either.
I hope that you are in good health now, my friend.
Good health is the most important thing to have.
Cheers,
Vance.
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Hi Vance,
Thank you for such a nice reply. I am very glad you were able to find a naturopathic treatment that seems to work, even if it isn’t covered by the insurance – both me and my dad also had to take our health into our own hands.
I am much better now thank you, but it has been a long road in learning and healing. Doctors never taught me anything about proper eating or replacing the good bacteria after all the antibiotics they gave me. I had to live with chronic heartburn and really bad digestion for years, which caused me fear of leaving the house (agoraphobia) and eventually had to quit my degree.
Now, many years later, I learned a lot about diet and health and my digestive problems are completely gone. At 31 I am getting out of my agoraphobia but I don’t have a degree and have never had a job (I got sick at 17). I am also trying to take the employment issue into my own hands by doing some affiliate marketing.
We always think that here in Europe the healthcare system is better than in America, at least than in the US. Canada seems to have a system similar to ours. It’s the price to pay for having “free” healthcare that waiting lists are very long. My dad badly needed spine surgery and the waiting list was over 6 months – he had to go the private route otherwise he would’ve lost his job (he couldn’t be absent for that long).
In these last 15 years since I first got sick I have learned a lot about health, so that’s an upside to many years of health problems. There is so much that isn’t known or taught in medical school, because as you say the pharmaceutical companies are the ones in charge of the curriculum, and I think that happens pretty much worldwide. Many cures for diseases have been found that have been suppressed too, just because there is a lot more money in keeping people alive and chronically ill, than in healing them. It’s obviously not doctors’ faults, most of them never learn that this has been happening.
It’s also not like people in the pharmaceutical industry keep those cures to themselves, because they get sick and die sick just like everybody else. But somewhere along the process they learn to dismiss anything that is cheap or truly revolutionary for the sake of profit.
I am eager to hear how you make progress with the new therapy. All the best!
Pau
Pau´s last blog post ..Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs
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Vance Reply:
January 10th, 2014 at 1:17 am
Hi Pau,
Sorry for not replying right away as I was too busy or in pain.
I’m not surprised that your doctors never told you about how to eat well and which food is good for your health. I have now been told by a couple of medical doctors that during all the years they’ve studied to become a doctor they had in total less than one day of lessons about nutrition and good diet. One of them said that he knows for sure that it was less than on day and the other told me it was 3 hours in total.
The reason is that the medical system cares about pushing medication and drugs and about selling and pushing on people the largest quantity of medication and drugs possible. They don’t want people to be healthy because if they were healthy they wouldn’t be taking the medication and drugs and the pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t be making the kind of money that they are after.
I’m so glad that you were able to learn how to take care of your own health.
It’s the best solution to the said situation out there. Unfortunately most people think of doctors as almost gods and follow everything that they are told by them. Now there are reportedly already some drugs that once a person starts taking them, they have to continue taking them for the rest of their life. I’m told that they are developing more of them so that they can make people dependent for life. So they are apparently legally creating drug addicts.
I hope that you will continue to be healthy and will never need the help of the corrupt medical system.
Cheers,
Vance.
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sad story!!
My one friend has a renowned “arachnophobia”
he is usually very scared of spiders.
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Vance,
Wow, what a crazy experience to go through! May I ask how this spider bit you in your house? I live in Michigan and we also have the recluse and black widow spiders (although both are rare to come across). Hoping you recover soon!
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Vance Reply:
January 10th, 2014 at 12:49 am
Hi Matt,
I was at my computer desk working on the computer. That’s where it happened. I did mention that in the post I think and also in one of my videos in the post.
Brown recluse spiders aren’t supposed to live in BC or anywhere on the West Coast of North America but they do. I know of a lady in Oregon that got bitten there one month after I got bitten here. I read of cases in California.
The experts are wrong and live in the past. There are hundreds of trucks going south from here across the border and hundreds of trucks are coming here from the south every day. All it takes is for a few spiders to take a ride on them and then start multiplying.
I would never have believed one can get a poisonous bite like this in BC in their own home but it happened to me and it will likely happen to others too. The brown recluse spider is apparently more poisonous than a rattle snake. In spite of that they haven’t bothered developing an anti-venom for it.
I hope this doesn’t happen to you or anybody you care about.
Cheers,
Vance.
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spider is dangerous!! by the way nice post, thank you for sharing.
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I have arachnophobia too It took all I had to even get through the article but now I much better informed.
thanks good .. thank you for this informative article
Thank Lance
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i don’t hate spiders , and i like spiderman 😀 , not all of the spiders are bad , we hate them because they are ugly !
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This article very informative thanks good. I like spider man I had to even get through the article
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I would have been scared if I was the one victimized over such catastrophe!
Chiropractor San Carlos
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Indeed an amazing post and it will surely help the people to stay away from dangerous spiders because they are indeed very lethal. Great Post Shared Vance….hope to read more informative posts from you in future…
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Vance Reply:
January 22nd, 2014 at 11:03 am
Hi Ellie,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I will be updating the spider bite soon, within a couple of weeks for sure, so stay tuned.
Vance.
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I have arachnophobia too It took all I had to even get through the article but now I much better informed.
thanks good .. thank you for this informative article
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Looking terribel 🙁 care about this
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so painful! I had one for a month and was on crutches, worst pain of my life.
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I don’t know what to say to you other than get well soon. Unfortunately, most hospital emergency services are overcrowded for some reason. You have to wait 5-6 hours before you are seen. This could be nerve wrecking when you have a child with 41 C. I totally understand your frustration. You would have probably received the same treatment from most UK hospitals as well. If you have money, you may be able to find a specialist on your own through private hospitals.
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As someone from Alberta, this is quite scary. We can be warmer and damper than BC in the Summer. What about the follow up, Vance – what’s happening now?
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I’ve never liked the spiders as they are absolutely creepy and all the legs makes it more intimidating.I was frighten of it from my childhood and still I start to scream when I see any spider.I’m very upset for the person for such situation.I hope and wish for to get well soon.He seems to be devastated but what can we do about such incidents as they are written in our fates.
Get well soon that all I can say.
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spider is dangerous!! thank you for sharing.
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Hi
Informative post
Frankly speaking I feel very sorry for you.I did not know that spider bite would lead to such dangerous and serious situation. The one thing I think you did not do is ,to consult a doctor in the first place. And the most surprising thing is that BC does not have a proper treatment for spider bite,they just use antibiotics was totally shocking. Any way I would be very careful from now on.
Thank you for sharing
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Heartbreaking.Never underestimate such creatures as they can’t do any harm.Sometimes they do more harm than the big ones.
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I’ve experienced socialised health care in two countries now.. both UK and Sweden, and I was a RN so knew how the system works. ( I have a neurological problem that means i stopped work 20 years ago, despite only being 45 now.
I need to make sure you know something.. if you need to see a specialist they can fix that for the same day, or the next day or so if it involves waiting for a visiting specialist. There is no way the standard routine 6 weeks for a referral applies in emergency situations.
I’ll admit I’ve been through the mill with it all, had some significant issues.. but I also had an orthopaedic surgeon visit me at home after my GP rang that day.. an ambulance was arranged for admission the next morning. (acute sciatic pain after 2m history of back pain) . My GP phoned the oncall GI Dr about severe GI symptoms, my long standing GI was doing day surgery and arranged to see me in the Day surgery department before admission. (I had clostridium difficile after antibiotics) . So fair enough I’d worked there, but even here in Sweden I spoke to a secretary about an implant failure.. seen the next morning 60 miles away.
The point being.. if it is acute enough you DO NOT WAIT.. i hate to think of non socialised medicine people reading this and think it is this bad.
YOU sat on this bite for 2 weeks.. at that stage it wasn’t acute, the tissue damage was done.. had you been immediatly they would have addressed it differently. Ask any paying US reader how they’d have been treated 2 weeks on.
There is only one thing to learn from your story, and that is to seek medical care immediatly.. don’t think you know better than the professionals or what you read online… then they will treat you as someone in an acute situation. After 2 weeks you immune system has already worked its best, healed the infection itself but left inflammation in the tissues.. and sadly at your age is always going to take months to heal. Immediate attention, appropriate antibiotics and cleaning away any residual venom and your wound would have begun to heal, your body wouldn’t have been induced to develop this severe inflammation and it probably would have healed by now.
I’d have backed you 100% if you sought medical care immediately and been treated like this.. but that 10 days is your responsibility.
Imagine 10 days of chest pain, your heart muscles dying daily from lack of blood supply.. 10 days on they cannot do anything for the heart attack, they can only treat the damage done. Been in charge of your own body and health care and know when the time is right to seek help.
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God, what a fright!
I hope you get well fast and rewrite for us.
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Vance Reply:
May 22nd, 2014 at 4:40 pm
Thank you so much Simone. I’m now in a better shape and will start writing posts again soon. It’s been taking forever to get better.
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Very sad story! But I am thinking that we should write articles about it. It can help other people to avoid danger.
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It wasn’t good to read about what happened with you but I will share the story with my friends so that they can spread the good words about the precautions you shared in last. Get well soon buddy..!
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Vance Reply:
May 22nd, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Thank you Glenn.
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Oh my god.. frightened by seeing this video..any repltile or insect now bites proper care should be taken off.. the tips had helped,, will keep in mind
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Very strange picture. makes me scared to points of running whenever I see a spider
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Im really astonished to see it and read for the first that Spider would cause such a rampaging effect in our body if it bites.
Terrible to know it and hope we should be safe from it hereafter. Nevertheless becoming a spider Man would be more better than having this type of wounds.
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A great knowledge for us we can safe and know about all these to learn after this post but i don’t think so we should hate to spiders. that also the part of life
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Seems Horrible man and it is really a shocking and eye opening story for person like who never took spider seriously..GOd bless you man.
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Oh, God! Bites of spiders, and also the snake, necrosam the region where the poison acts and the person may even lose some of the meat of the site. Have to be very careful with these animals.
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I have arachnophobia too but i managed to recover from it
thanks good .. thank you for this informative article… !!c 🙂
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Hi,
Very sad to here about your medical and health related problems.
This will help other users in taking care.
Regards,
Wyatt Hunter,
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is the all type of spiders do like that
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I never seen anything like that before. Man, thats hurt
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its horrible! it an eye opener for people like me who dont take spiders seriously .
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Quiet interesting it was thanks for sharing, actually i scare from spiders 😀
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Spiders can really be that seriously harmful?
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Great health care In BC the same model USA is following. They should allow Private practice.
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Vance, I am so sorry that you had this problem! Terrible. I’m glad that you’re slowly but surely getting better. I knew another man who got bitten and it did dissolve part of his leg and foot. If a person does a Google search, is that where you get the name of the treatment? Also, how do you know it is a recluse that bit you?
Thanks for being so open about this. You’re the best. Get well and feel better soon.
Andrea
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How are you faring now Vance? Have you continued with alternative antibiotics and detoxification?
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Hello,
I came across on of your YouTube videos showing your leg 3 months in. When it comes to doctors, good or bad/inexperienced, there are 2 types: responsible, not responsible (when I use this word I mean that they hold themselves accountable for their actions and decisions).
And example for a bad doctor that is responsible is the type that recognizes: “I don`t know! I will ask someone else.”
We have the tendency to accredit doctors and trust them with our health just because. I am not recommending people should jump straight to the other pole treat or diagnose based on House MD or you tube movies. In case of a spider or snake bite, the first thing is to try and not lose your self – keep it under control (if it is you that was bitten or someone else). Second, make sure no one else in bitten and take picture of the spider or snake (if you can kill it better – don`t try to capture it alive). Third limit spread of poison, extract or restrain.4 Clean wound (pee helps if nothing else is at hand). Last, go to a hospital, not a clinic. Show them what bit you, how long ago and what you did since then. If they are hesitant ask them to remove the poison and damaged tissue. Tissue that came in contact with venom will act as rust does to steel. Venom will coagulate with blood and create a noodle or snail snot type of substance that needs to be removed. Antibiotics will help to some extent but they will also shut down or impair other organs and glands in your body needed to heal the wound (it is wrong to presume that a pain killer or muscle relaxant acts only where it hurts – muscle relaxant act on all your muscles including for example your hart). Anti-tetanus shoot is great as well as external disinfectants and creme with antibiotics. Try to understand what happens with your body and how it reacts, this will enable you to be in control when you hand over your life and well been to a doctor.
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I’m totally shock to see this, I don’t expect this things can happen with just a spider bite..Any way thanks for sharing..
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They say over here that things are better in Europe than in North America when it comes to health care but your story indicates that not everything is working as it should there either.
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Good article, very informative blog. Becareful man.. the spider is any were live.
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Dearest Vince, I hope you are doing better. Nobody should have to suffer like this.
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Vance Reply:
August 5th, 2017 at 10:08 pm
Hi Andrea, thank you so much for the nice comment. I’m doing fine and play tennis without problems. Visually my foot will likely be marked forever. I still can feel it at times but it’s ridiculously mild, like a tickle compared to the horrible pain I had for months on end, really for more than a year.
I hope you are doing great. I’s wonderful to hear from you.
Cheers,
Vance.
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That’s wonderful to hear! I’m so happy you’re finally getting over it. I can’t believe it lasted this long. Love to your wife and cats! 🙂
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Vance Reply:
August 5th, 2017 at 11:14 pm
Thanks. I know of people who didn’t survive after a spider bite like this. I spent thousands of dollars on natural doctors. They were helpful but really not in treating the bite. I think that they helped to strengthen my body to withstand the injury.
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