Recently a fellow nurse/coworker was bitten on the upper arm by a Brown Recluse. The debridements left her with a cavity on her arm about 1 inch in diameter x 0.5 inch in depth. In layman's terms a "chunk". She could not return to work for about 2 months due to the risk of introducing the microbes we live with in the health care profession. 2 months without pay. The wound needed to be packed daily with wet to dry dressings. She, like other nurses, could not afford good health insurance. So, she could not afford a home health nurse to appear daily to her home. So, she showed up daily to our place of employment and one of us- her fellow nursetrons - took care of the wound. When a wound like that heals it does not heal with normal layers of tissue. It heals by filling with granulation tissue and becomes a scar. Now she has a 1 inch in diameter x 0.5 inch deep scar on her upper arm. A U.S. spider bite!
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
