Good luck Darko. Let the maggots do what they must.

we have them and my husband was bitten by one a number of years ago - an old timer in the area had "the cure" - slice a black walnut in half (hull on the best) and ducttape it to the wound - he did and left it on for a couple of days - when he removed the walnut and hull, his arm was an ugly green color from the stain from the walnut, but the wound was in excellent condition. it was truly amazing. listen to old timers when you get the chance.

i'll pray for you, rev.

I appreciate the thoughts, but I'll be fine, regardless.

I honestly did put this up so others are aware of what these little bastards can do.

When I was bitten, I didn't feel it. About 20 minutes later, it itched like hell and I thought it was just a bad mosquito bite. Within 3 hours, I was in agony and the bite was turning black. I went to hospital at that point.

I just wanted to pass along that if you do get bitten by one of these evil little buggers, seek treatment IMMMEDIATELY. These things can mess you up quite badly.

Hi Rev,

We've missed you around here but I had no idea what you had been going through.

My prayers are with you and hope you are able to get your leg back to normal again. I've heard of maggot therapy before and it's worth a try if it helps save your leg. Sorry to hear you are in so much pain. Can't the doctors give you any pain medication to take for it?

Did you know that ZAT's beloved cat Max died from a brown recluse spider bite? Most people just think of Black Widows as the poisonous spider to be careful of but the brown recluse spider is even worse. I have such a fear of spiders (since I was a little kid) I couldn't even read your link as the photo of the spider made my skin crawl.

Get well soon, Rev.

we have them and my husband was bitten by one a number of years ago - an old timer in the area had "the cure"
2 | Posted by nanc at 2008-09-18 09:39 AM

YEAH!

Just what America needs ----- Medicine according to Nell

Butch says: "Trouble go away at nigh', an' Nell caw Mi'i - an' Nell an' Mi'i - ye', Nell an' Mi'i - like t'ee in the way!"
[Sways with her arms outstretched]

Again, thanks gang.

Actually, I was not bitten ont he leg, I was bitten at my waistline, which, I think, is even worse.

While I notmally don't like wearing pants anyway, now it's just agonizing to do so.

Oh, and forgive me if my spelling and typing is worse than normal.

To answer the question of pain meds: yes, I'm on pure codine, as well as my own private stock of medicinal...stuff.

Hey Rev

Are you sure that wasn't an overly sensitive Zombie brown recluse spider out for revenge?

Take care!

rnv - must you be so nasty? this isn't a post about your hatred of me, it's about rev's being bitten by a deadly poisonous spider. it's really sad that you spend a goodly portion of your time making an arse out of yourself over me.

Are you sure that wasn't an overly sensitive Zombie brown recluse spider out for revenge?

Great. That'd be JUST what the world needs.

Actually, about two days after I got back from hospital, I found a nest of the buggers behind the chair I'd been in. Three bloody egg sacks in it.

Now, I know this will effect my karma quite badly, but I soaked the bloody thing with two cans fo Raid.

-I soaked the bloody thing with two cans of Raid.

Self-defense, I calls it.

I would say, "Hope you are feeling better!", but with all that medication, the maggots are prolly pretty loaded, too.

I would say, "Hope you are feeling better!", but with all that medication, the maggots are prolly pretty loaded, too.

"Hallucinating Maggots" would be a GREAT name for a punk band.

Oh, and I want to take a second and say something specifically to Nanc:

Nanc, you and I disagree on...well, just about EVERYTHING politically and theologically, but I've always thought you're a good person at heart and you're showing that very much in this thread. I appreciate that.

"an arse"

YEAH!

Except for the fact that the only arse-- here would be the one recommending a Hillbilly remedy for something as serious as what Rev is faced with.

Red,

Cut some slack here. What the treatment I'm undergoing is medically recognized now as viable, but 15 years ago would have been dismissed as voo-doo or a hillbilly remedy. Some of them do have merit.

While the treatment I'm undergoing is medically recognized now as viable, 15 years ago would have been dismissed as voo-doo or a hillbilly remedy. Some of them do have merit.

There. That makes a bit more sense.

black walnut works for a multitude of things!

rev - i have a friend who was bitten on her cheekbone approximately 30 years ago and when they got done with her, she had a divot the size of a nickel carved out of her face. she said the pain was worse than giving birth!

In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

-nanc

rev - i have a friend who was bitten on her cheekbone approximately 30 years ago and when they got done with her, she had a divot the size of a nickel carved out of her face. she said the pain was worse than giving birth!

Lol. Well, Nanc, if I ever give birth, I'll let you know my opinion of that.

I can tell you that the pain is worse than when I had the tip of my thumb cut off.

careful there, zat - lest i put a mojo on you!

I'm soooooooo afraid!

ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

W.S.

p.s. - rev - you and my husband now have two things in common - he cut the tip of his left thumb off also - from where the fingernail begins - one day not too long ago he says, "hey babe, get a load of this!" looking down so i looked down at his zipper and his stubby thumb was poking through - thought i'd hurt myself laughing!

zat - i sure hope that mole on your...you know...isn't bothering you too much...

No moles here.

Sorry

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

To reverse this evil
which has been done,
I make this offering...
to the Divine One.

A whore not,

an innocent was,

for whom I seized
a virgin's blood.

Goddess of Light,
Goddess of Lust,

to undo this awful spell
is a real must.

To bring you life
and get you high,

I offer the sweat
of five men's thighs.

O Diana,
O Great One,

we live without sun...

until this wicked curse
is undone.

In hope that you appear,

I have collected
a year's worth of tears.

Goddess Diana,
fail you, I will.

I was to bring you
fresh sperm from my Bill.

I had him erect,
and his semen would follow,

but alas, I was hot,
so hot that I swallowed.

R8, I'm going to have to put mentholatum on your eyelids.

Get well soon, Rev. Darko. A sister-in-law had a nasty spider bite a few years ago in Colorado. It took some of the fun out of the name of my web design company I was starting at the time: SpiderByte.

Thanks, Rogers.

The agony is something I can deal with, but the idea that I voluntarily have maggots crawling around on me is somewhat...disconcerting.

Rev,

Well if you actually look at how those drugs you are taking for pain and the maggots won't seem so distasteful.

Rev

Thinks of them as little GOP congressmen......

Think, not Thinks

Hope all goes well Rev.

Here Skeeter...skeeter...skeeter... here boy....

Rev....you seem to be on a bad string lately. What with the staph and now this...
We had many widows lurking around the potting shed and greenhouse.
Maggots work! EX...I had six steers that had been dehorned and their heads banded. The fella working for us at the time did not remove the bands so they developed massive infections, rot and loads of maggots by the time I saw them. I had heard of maggot therapy from a doc. Soooo...I cleaned up 4 with peroxide and screw worm bomb and let the other two go after we finally dug the bands off (absolutely GROSS)....all got PenG. The maggot infested animals recovered much, much faster than the ones where they were removed.

Like Nanc says...I'll send out a prayer. Take care...and get some ducks!

PS...my witchdoctor advise...smooth some nice natural vit E on or around wound...better yet get a hot nurse to do it for you.

RD -- Best of luck!

Re. the therapy, I've heard of it working well. Here's what you probably already read of it.

Rev,

Hang in there, I hope you get well soon.

Would love to see your take on what's going on lately.

Oh, and I miss your sense of humor.

Rev,

I was wondering where you and a few other posters were (e.g. Hans and Trees). Good to hear from you but sorry to hear about your current condition. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

KERRIN57

If you're still on the board later on and come back on this thread -- how did your Mom do weathering Hurricane Ike? I she was not too far away from the coast and south of Houston. -- If I remember right, I think she was in Katy, Texas? Hope all went well for her and she and her property are okay.

Rev,

Hope today your leg is better than yesterday and tomorrow it's better than today.

Hang in there.

Chris...My mom is a New Yorker...up near 101's habitat.

I had six steers that had been dehorned and their heads banded. The fella working for us at the time did not remove the bands so they developed massive infections, rot and loads of maggots by the time I saw them.

Always Cauterize.

That's what those irons are for.

Chris...My mom is a New Yorker...up near 101's habitat.

#40 | Posted by kerrin57 at 2008-09-19 05:36 PM

Sorry, then I guess I had you confused with someone else whose Mom I thought lived in a city south of Houston. I'll check my posts. I got mixed-up somewhere down the line. What else is new. lol!