Arachnophobia
I went to bed last night feeling perfectly fine, but when I woke up this morning I felt a little odd. I just shrugged, squirted some Zicam up my nose, and hit the shower. Then, after my shower, as I completed my grooming rituals, I noticed that I have a crescent-moon-shaped series of welts on my chest. I’ve had intermittent chills and hot flashes all morning (which is only like 2.5 hours so far, but still).
Can spider bites do that to a person? I try to be nice to spiders. I don’t usually kill them. I try to divert them outdoors or just ignore them completely, under the perhaps misguided illusion that we can coexist.
And this is the thanks I get. Can spider bites cause vaguely feverish symptoms? I’ve heard that all spiders are poisonous, just most of them aren’t powerful enough to hurt a human much. But I have like 8 welts that might be spider bites. Maybe it’s a cumulative effect.
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