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Nov 28, 2017 23:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by sunburst4 on Nov 28, 2017 23:19:42 GMT -5
I was bitten two years ago by a brown recluse while cleaning horse blankets in my barn. At first it just burned. Within a few hours I had a fever and was vomiting. The bite was on my back right behind my arm pit. The pain across my back and down my arm was horrible. I went to the doctor the next morning. I was red from head to toe like a bad sunburn. The bite itself had a purple center and a big red area about 4 inches across. They tested me for the flu because they could not believe that spider bite had me so sick. I went back in two days later when I was still vomiting, was in excruciating pain, and could not stand up straight. The doctor started looking on the internet how to treat a brown recluse bite. I was bed ridden for A week and slept on an ice pack for over a month. A couple of weeks later they got me into a wound care clinic that told me I should have had a certain medication that would have greatly reduced the symptoms if given in the first few days. I ended up having surgery 6 weeks after the bite to remove the necroded flesh. I had a hole in my back as big as my fist. I wore a wound vac and had trips to the clinic twice a week for care for over three months after the surgery. I have a ugly scar. Dumb doctor that failed to treat me properly added to my suffering. Two weeks before the bite my mom had passed away. My grief and near death experience from the spider led me to re-evaluate my life. I had always wanted cows but my family didn't want any. I've raised horses all my life. I decided to get some cows. I planned on a getting a jersey heifer. Then decided I would get two to start. I drove 325 miles to pick up two heifer bottles calves and came home with three. I have a bad case of CALPC. In the less than two years I've been doing this I have raised 30 bottle calves and had some others as I have bought or sold or traded several. As of today, I have a yearling bull, 6 yearling heifers, 1 baby bull, 8 heifers that are 2 to 9 months. That is 16.I have some dairy some beef. A couple if my first babies will calve the end of February. I really love cows. They are so affectionate. I enjoy raising them. My daughter has been showing some of them we have raised and has done well. If I had not been bitten by the spider I likely would not have ever gotten into cattle.