Here's the culprit.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

The early consequences.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

The ugly result.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Izzat you Kerry? Ouch!

Have a distant friend who was bitten by a recluse and then suffered toxic shock as an added complication. Bad neurological damage and has been out of work for a couple of years now. Basically, it ended her career as an MD.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Not me, thank God.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Not sure if hee bee gee bee's is the right term but that what this thread gives me.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Kerry--is that your hand? I had a similar issue last year (to the month) that kept me in the hospital for 10 days. Brown recluse was one possible guess, but it turned out to be a rare flesh eating virus I had most likely contacted from a fish in Bot's backyard. I missed having my finger amputated by several hours before they arrested the virus (78 bags of IV). The bi -weekly debridements during recovery are the fun part. I did escape having to have any reconstructive surgery though. Hope that's not you. If so, I'll pm you some of my lovely pics.

Well, sob , as soon as I posted my anecdote, you replied it was not you. Good news, even if I did waste a minute and 1/2

I seem to have stumbled across the middle of this thread.
I was once bitten by one of these bad boys. Didn't know what had caused it at the time, but my hand swelled up and began turning black from necrosis (I think that's the correct term for it).
It took several days for it to turn the corner, but my immune system won in the end. It was a *****, though! I had a huge hole in the back of my hand immediately after it broke open. Pretty gross I still have a scar from it 30 years later.

People should keep in mind that the brown recluse doesn't lilve west of Texas. If you are bit by a similar-looking brown spider on the west coast, it's a hobo spider. They're also poisonous; I think the effects are similar but possibly not as bad. I hope not, they are all over my house and yard!

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1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...

Damned vagrant and anti-social arachnids. . .

Is that a spider, too?

Someone sent me the pictures, I don't know who it is. Just gruesome enough to post.

Info on the creature:

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef631.htm

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Hee bee gee bee's is like having the willies but worse. I guess it's like a guys version of being grossed out. Does that make it any clearer? It's hard to explain.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Not too sure about that. Last I checked, California was west of Home (Tejas) and the brown recluse is known to reside in the area of my California house, along with about a billionmillion black widow spiders. Lady from the region died from a brown recluse bite a few years back - bit on the foot, dead brown recluse found in her shoe. It was an agonizingly slow death as I recall, took almost two weeks from her to succumb IIRC.

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'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.