this is a picture 1 month after my spider bite.

by jessica ford
(mo)

I was bitten over a month ago by a brown recluse spider, I went to the hospital where they sent me home on pain meds indicating that I was bitten by a mosquito. I later went back to the hospital and was sent home again before finally being admitted. By this time infection had set in, I stayed in the hospital on antibiotics for a week. The infection is gone but I still have a lifetime scar.