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This is no joke and I am wondering just what they are teaching these new doctor's.
I had a spider bite under my toe and the skin started peeling off. It had swollen and I paid no attention to it. A couple of weeks passed and it became so swollen that I could not put my shoe on and my toes wouldn't lay on the floor anymore. It wasn't healing so I started to get worried. I had heard that there are spider bites that will eat your skin and literally have to amputate the part of the body in which it damaged. So I tell my husband to take me to the ER to have it checked out. Oh a trip to the ER in my area will cost you at least 6 hours of your time just in the waiting room and another hour in the examining room. So we get to the ER and the Dr. examined my foot. He writes something down on his clip board and looks at us in a very serious manner. I kid you not, this is what he said and he didn't look like he was joking: spiders don't bite people. This is the truth, honest. My husband and I looked at each other it total disbelief. We wondered what planet he was on.
I also asked him about a blood clot that I may have because of the looks of my veins and my history of DVT's. He told me spiders would give me a blood clot. I told him that I already knew that. He gave me something for it, anti-biotics I think and sent me home. I really think that me not having health insurance decided my fate. We paid cash. They really need to stop discriminating people like that.
When I got home I took all the bedding off the bed one at a time and sure enough there was a nest at the very bottom of the bed between the sheets. I washed all the bedding in the hottest water I could get.
It still amazes me that I was told Spiders Don't Bite People. Geeeesh and we pay out our butts for their salaries! More than that we trust them to tell us the truth and heal us. We don't go to that hospital if we can help it anymore. We also try to avoid going the the other hospital in the next town. They are both owned by a much bigger hospital in another part of the state.
One time my husband was in one of those hospitals and I in the other one at the same time.
His stay was much longer than mine because of a medical mistake, but that is another story.
We really need to change tings and teach more compassion and better bedside manners to our youth who plan to be in the medical profession. They will dictate who gets funding and who doesn't.
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Hey Debbie, I think the doctor is just trying to let you know that spiders don't bite humans because it's actually a myth that they do. Spiders will use the front portion of their mouth, not to bite, but prick, which causes an infection and in some cases death, depending on the Spider. That's all. I hope you're feeling better though. :)
poetvix and Cagsil, Thanks for commenting. This happened many years ago and I am still here!!
LOL Cagsil--being technical and a pain.....lol
Hey Debbie, I am just calling it what it is. You wouldn't say that a bee bites, because it uses a stinger and pricks you. Granted, you probably say that you have mosquito bites, but they don't bite either, like bees, they sting you. Spiders do the same thing. If something bites you, then you will know it bit you. I'm not trying to be difficult or a pain. I'm just calling it for what it is. :P :P
Cagsil, lol lol lol. I was using a bit of sarcasm that didn't come through the *bytes very well. No harm
Hi Lady Guinevere - I was going to say that too - I guess that doc did not have a very good bedside manner! If he was going to tell you that he should have clarified it with more information. I hope you are feeling better - I just had a very similar experience and half of my face swelled up! I was changing seasonal clothing in the closets and basement so I am sure I found one by accident! lol
RealHousewife, I am glad you are OK too.
I don't think we can look forward to an upswing in compassion or bedside manner from our doctors; we're about to switch over to an even more assembly-line health care system than we already have. Well, maybe they won't have time to quibble over semantics either, if that's what this guy was doing.
Thank God for The National Health Service. I hope you have made a full recovery, despite the crappy doctors.
christopheranton, Thanks for asking. Yes I recovered nicely and still have my toes and skin. I do fog the house and under the crawlspace each year now. We have all kinds of spiders and 2 of them are killer--black widow and brown recluse. I don't like spiders, but most times if I see one in the house I will try to get it outside where there is more food for it.
Wow I really hate findings spider nests. Gives me the willies. When I was a child, living in Texas, I would find huge Spiders in the woods. I would pull them off their webs and play with them. Pulling silk from their abdomen. What was I thinkin!!!
That was a tacky thing to say. Doctors have no sympathy for patients. I like to tell them they need PATIENCE to be doctors, but they don't get it.
Spiders may not actually "bite", but they do penetrate the skin and inject toxins and bacteria. Some are actually deadly. So whether an insect or arachnid bites or pricks or stings is a moot point.
A really interesting hub and what a horrible experience to go through!! I'm glad that living in Scotland our spiders tend to be very calm and unaggressive! In the UK as well there is always jokes and criticism made about the NHS - but hell, at least it's free to everyone and people are treated in the same way!
As to the doctor - and having been a nursing for 25 years - some are brilliant and some are crap! You also get the human ones who are easy to talk to and you get the others who think they are gods! These latter ones think that being a doctor is the only important job on the planet and everyone else is definately inferior! Most of this lot need a personality transplant, but then they're so arrogant and up themselves that they don't think they need one! But despite what kind of doctor or nurse for that matter, they might be, don't put up with their crap or bad manners. You are a person and you have the right to be treated with respect and dignity.
Enjoyed your hub and glad that you are better now. Voted up awesome!
Austonstar and seeker7, thanks. I waited for the swelling to go down so that I didn't have to go to the Dr. but when it wasn't after 3 weeks then I thought that there might be something else going and went to the ER. It wasn't like I was a drug addict or something just looking for drugs. My goodness I have had three DVT's and wasn't wanting another one. The swelling was what was really bothering me as it could have been another dangerous clot.
Thanks for the vote up.
Lady G,
Ewww Spiders!!!
But my experience is that some doctors just suck....like the guy who I saw less than a week before my aortic aneuryism-
he asked me... "do you have a heart murmer?" i said no and he said "oh i thought i might have heard one"...coincidence "i think not"...dum ass doctor
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tom!! nice to see you still ticking. I had a Dr. once that couldn't see me in pain unless my eyes were open.. They wanted to see if my pupils dialated, Saying Ouch and making unpleasant sounds wasn't enough or they thought I was lying.
Wow - this is an amazing story! Of course spiders bite people! What was that doctor thinking? Too much time in college and not enough time walking in the woods, I think. Glad you posted this account. Voted up!
Thanks Aunt Mollie.
poetvix Level 7 Commenter 4 months ago
You might look into finding a good nurse practitioner. They are typically much more affordable and being mere nurses work harder at patient care, in my opinion.