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Darla called. The hospital isn’t sure it is a brown recluse bite. Which is good, but they wouldn’t even look in the container once they found out the spider was alive. Darla explained, “But if we squished it flat you wouldn’t be able to identify the spider.” Apparently, the nurse was unimpressed with this reasoning. They’ve told her to put ice on the bite and rest. They say, that’s all they do for any spider bite. If tomorrow the bite is more red, hot to the touch, or hard in the middle then they’ll give her some antibiotics.
With all the near hysteria we’ve been getting from the exterminators and others, the hospital’s attitude was interesting. And yes, interesting to me in this case means less effort than I would have wanted them to put out.