Dear Prayer Partners,
I finaly am able to get on the internet and write you a note.
Thursday, around 4:30 I was leaving a co-workers house from a Bible study and walked to school to pick up my car. I felt an itch on my foot thinking it was one of those pesky mosquito bites. It had a pit of a pricky feeling as well, but I did not think anything of it. I went to get my haircut, but had time to walk around a large park near there for exercise. Then after I got the hair cut, I went to Home Depot to pick up a curtain rod for a man to put up some curtains. My foot was beginning to swell and it was hard to walk around the store.
Up on returning to my house, I felt tired and took a shower and went to bed. Chills began to over take me. I thought maybe I was getting the flu but I did not feel nausious, just tired and cold. I took a Benedrel for sinuses because I felt stuffed up and wanted to sleep.
In the morning, Friday, I felt better and went to school. My foot still hurt so I wore a more open shoe. At school, I began to feel cold again and was trembling. But people thought it was just an ant bite and that it would go away in a couple days. The flu was going around so I thought the chills maybe part of that.
Saturday morning, my foot ached, burned and itched. It was swollen, red, and now I could see where it had been bitten. I contacted a friend to help me. We tried to find friends that knew what to do. She contacted a gal in her mission whose father worked in the mission hospitals over seas. He told his daugher to get me to the emergency room as that was a spider bite and it can damage the cell walls of the blood vessels to the point I could loose my foot. So action was taken and the missionary in my neighborhood took me to a good hospital here in chihuahua. They contacted a doctor who is aware of such things and I was admitted to the hospital on Saturday for heavy dose of antibiotics and other medicines.
I was bitten by a Brown Recluse. It is funny to think that we were studying about Spiders this week in my 5th and 6th graded science book. But I didn’t learn our lessons very well did I? But know I know!!! Brown Recluse truly gives a serious bite.
I am not sure when I will be released, hopefully tomorrow. But the red was almost up to my knee and now is down below my ankle.
Pray that we will be able to know what to do clearly once I leave here. I have some questions and some of my Mexican visitors helped me translate the questions
Added note: After sending this out to my prayer partners. I began to get more information about the Brown Recluse. It does not like light. Therefore, I figured out what may have happened. They are digging a long trench near our school. The spider may have been hiding under my car, which at the time was the only car on that side of the parking lot, to get out of the sun. I recalled being told when I first went to Aritao in the Philippines to be careful because there are more bugs around when they are doing construction and digging in the ground. Well, I have found centipedes in my classroom so this may account for all the BUGS=(
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