Damn Recluse

If brown recluses are called recluses why did one show up and bite my Dad? As if he doesn't have enough to deal with, you know, with the whole cancer thing and compromised immune system...that stupid brown recluse had to go and bite his leg. So now he has a sort of "hole" in his leg.

The spider bite occurred in October and he still has this open wound. So naturally I'm a little more worried than I normally am.

Spider/insect bites are especially nasty to those with cancer and Dad has gone down many avenues trying to get this thing "fixed" or "closed" or healed. And it's not going that great.

They took him off the cancer medicine to try and jumpstart his immune system into healing the bite but his platelets are going too low and if they get below a certain number, he won't be allowed back on the cancer medicine (which was working well for him).

And every time he goes to some new doctor they want to scrape stuff and take samples, and they're just making the wound even worse. None of them really know what their doing. They're all so specialized that they can't connect A to B to C. All they see is either only A or B or C.

MDA didn't even know if it was a Brown Recluse bite when he first went in to get it looked at. Really? Really? Boy scouts could identify the bite! Hell, I could identify it! I was a Junior in Girl Scouts after all. I still have the vest...baller.

Anyway...so they gave him like antivirals and antibiotics and creams and shit...a lot of it just made him feel bad and didn't do anything for the bite. It's ridiculous.

If I were smarter I would go become a doctor, an oncologist. And I wouldn't give my patients any shit. I would tell them like it is and I would give them the time of day if they asked. I would treat them like human beings and not a 2:30 appointment.

The whole thing just really erks me...

So Dad is taking a lot of time off work to get this fixed and throwing hard earned vacation days away on doctors appointments :/ This week alone he's had to have like 12+ combined hours of appointments.

I don't give a shit what Brown Recluses do for our "Eco System..." why don't we just pesticide all those damn bastards?

Anyway...that's the story. Next time you see a spider...kill the shit out of it.













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