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				 Re: BEWARE OF THE FIDDLEBACK SPIDER 
 
			
			After the surgery, Sherri had a "cleaning" last week.   Basically just scrape out the fatty tissue that has dried up.  Wound is 7.5 inches by 4 inches.   She was fitted with a wound vac on Fri., which runs 24/7.  Looks like she is carrying around a catheter.  Has to go in twice a week to have the sponge changed.
 Insurance approved the wound vac machine for <span style="font-weight: bold">three months</span>!!!  We are hoping that isn't the recovery time from this point.   Been 5 weeks today since she was bitten.
 
 We have caught about 18 fiddlebacks, but nothing in our room in about 10 days, so maybe we have gotten most of them.  I am still astounded that there is no anti venom or other medically accepted treatment other than let the area finish rotting, then cut it out.
 
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