That spider bite turned out to be really bad.
I thought the spider bite issue was resolving itself, I thought I was healing from it.
I was wrong.
By this morning, both of my legs had swollen up like balloons again, they were red, itchy, and then I started getting hives on the upper part of my body.
I had huge red hives on my torso and arms, and my entire body was itching like crazy, so I went to the ER this evening after several doses of Benadryl did absolutely nothing at all to help me.
I just got home at like 10:30pm after spending 4 and a half hours in the very busy ER.
The doctor looked at my body and was like wow, that's pretty bad, let's see what we can do to fix this, so he hooked me up to an IV and started pumping Prednisone, which is a steroid, into me along with some dilaudid for the pain I was in from scratching myself silly all day long.
I had scratched a couple of moles on my shoulders pretty much off, they were open and bleeding so the nurse had to clean them up and put bandaids on them, and then she lectured me about making moles bleed.
I know that you shouldn't pick moles and make them bleed, but when I was scratching, I didn't even know that I had moles in those spots, I was just scratching where it itched.
I had also scratched a bit too hard on my legs so there were some wounds to clean up there too.
I'm home now and have my scripts for more prednisone and for dilaudid already filled by one of the Walgreens that stay open late.
I still have huge red hives all over my upper body and my legs are still swollen and red, but the doc said that should start to clear up within 24 hours of taking the steroid.
He couldn't figure out what kind of spider bit me, but he did confirm the spider bite is what caused this to happen.
I'm just happy to be home and I'll be happy when the swelling goes away, that's what's so painful, the swelling in my legs, it makes it so that I can't even walk well, I'm like limping on both sides.
It's a sight to see for sure. haha
I can't wait to get some decent sleep tonight, I'm so tired from all of the hours of scratching myself to death.
