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Friday, 01 July 2005 |
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The Following is pinched from some of Shelleighs emails she has sent out.....
Have I failed to tell you about the spider? What a shocker. I tell you, it was something out of a horror film. Anthony Hopkins would not even step up to rein act the role it was too horrific. Let me paint the scene. It was a sunny afternoon in Ichkyluma. Shelleigh was laying back in a hammock right beside the pool table reading James Herriot. She was relaxed happy and contenteded. The boys were busying around the pool table. Luke as always was trying to prove his macho macho man image. He saw a huge spider and we are talking spider the size of my hand no lie, (in fact let me explain, it was a HUGE spider so big, similar to a spider in a horror movie. It had huge legs and not the thin type, they were BIG HAIRY legs). Anyhue back to the facts, Luke decides that he can hit the spider out of the web. He hits the web and the spider flys somewhere. I get out of the hammock and walk over to answer an argument that it taking place about a shot. As I get over there I see out of the corner of my eye what looks like a big black swarm of bugs on my arm. I look down properly to see this spider running up my arm. I scream a deep belly scream. Luke dashes over to play the knight and hits it off my arm and stamps on it. AS the spider leaves my arm he leaves one final goodbye present. HE BITES. It swells and goes red, and for a few days I draw out my will and speech to be played at my funeral,(thinking poor kingsweston, how will they cope). But after a day or two it disappears.
Picture the scene. It's Petes last day and we decide to treat him. So we take him to Catamayla, it is a town about 40mins away. It has a huge swimming complex with 3 amazing slides. So it is a very hot day. We are waltzing around on swimming costumes and who should pay shelleigh a little visit? None other than the lovely mosquitoes. I have SO many bites on my legs, it is unbelievable. Just when I though I had recovered. ANd I really stress that you ever never seen anything like the bites I have. But OH NO, shelleigh has not reached the pinnacle yet. The other day I wake with a lump on my cheek. I tish and pish it as a spot. I have never had a spot before on my cheek. I treat it with the remedy Witch hazel, but alas there is no movement.The next day I awake to a lump the size of jabba the Huts Girth, and to make matters worse it is redder than the most redest rose that romeo would give to juliet. I would like to say that this story ends well but alas no. The thing on my cheek is huge and red, the things on my leg have taken over control of my body. I look like a freak show. People are paying to come and stare at me
Everything here is going well. We have had our circuit overseer visit this week. I missed the first few days on service due to the bite on my cheek in the night. It swelled and swelled and swelled and went really red. It was incredibly embarrassing especially as one meeting everyone thought Luke had hit me. Anyway this week I was at the pioneer meeting and the Circuit Overseer leaned across and looked at it. He looked closely and said "hmmmm, you know what that looks like to me" "Over here they have a spider that bites your cheek in the night and injects poison, if you dont get the poison out in time it bursts under the skin and the poison is flesh eating and will eat your flesh away" And as you can imagine this is not the thing you want to be hearing when you dont know what you have on your cheek. So I visited the dermatologist and she said it wasn't a dangerous spider bite but was a bite that was very very infected so has put me on antibiotics to get rid of it. |
