BEWARE OF THE FIDDLEBACK SPIDER

[Lynn]

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.