the brown window spider . . .


the brown widow spider is both an invasive creature and very aggressive. here in the south they grow to mammoth proportions. last year about this time i was bitten by a brown widow spider the size of my hand extended. it was no joke. it had crawled into my body while i was sleeping. i had one in my ear and i won't say where the other one was. i can tell you that one or both of them were protecting it's babies. i had gone to the emergency room because i had something coming out of the air vents, stinging me. it was september and i guess time for spiders to hatch. i recently fumigated my car again, just today. and i will be taking my car to a technition to have the air unit vaccumed out or else do it myself. at the hospital they didn't believe me when i came in and they sent me off to a special hospital because they thought that i was suffering from spider phobia. i was not suffering from spider phobia. they were unfamiliar with the brown widow spider. i like to think that if i had gone to a hospital further down south or in florida they might have more believed me and they might have been more aware of the invasive species. there are specialist in baton rouge. as a result of sending me to the special hospital for patients with mental conditions the spider remained in my body for about two weeks before i was able to finally squash it and it fell out. it was a very tramatizing experience. when i had first arrived at the special hospital they had actually offered me spider spray because i had seen a brown recluse in the room. i don't know why i didn't think to use it on myself. i just wasn't sure what the spider would do, which way it would crawl. luckily i did figure it out and it did fall out after putting up with it for two weeks. i never again want to live in a home that is infested with spiders. i've looked at a couple of apartments. there is one that is govt sponsored and they take good care of the property. there are no over hanging trees and they change out the carpet and the ceiling fans every time someone moves out. one of the other apartment complexes was riddled with spider webs on the outside of the buildings, the rent was cheeper, but i won't be staying there.