Creepy crawlies
Last week, one of the teachers was out sick due to an allergic reaction. He'd had to go the ER in the middle of the night because (I later found out) a bite on his arm had started to affect him pretty severely. Friday after work, several of us Michigan teachers gathered for an impromptu "support group" meeting, and J. (the teacher in question) showed his battle scar (i.e., the bite site, which still looked pretty scary) and recounted his adventures.
APPARENTLY, the doctors say, he had been bitten/stung IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT--
--yes, people, IN HIS OWN BED, IN HIS APARTMENT, WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING--
by either a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER or
(it gets worse)
A FREAKIN' SCORPION!!!!!
Like hurricanes and earthquakes weren't bad enough.
Fred and John, this was NOT on the "Come live in Florida" website.
8 comments:
The grow them there bugs big in the south, its why I tell myself every year that I really love winter, despite the cold, snow shoveling miserable days, because it kills the bugs. In Missouri, I was always frightened of the brown racluse spider.
I won't tell you how many times we've been bitten by things crawling in the night.
Rememeber, they'll all be buried in snow in a few months up there, and you'll be wondering why you ever went through it all. It'll make it all worthwhile.
I'm a life-long Florida resident.
I saw a bug once.
Of course we don't put that sort of thing on the web site; who'd come teach the little darlin's if we did?
so if I visit....um, how will I ever sleep wondering if i will get bit by some random bug :)...
LOL John.
I'm going to start sleeping in a bee-keepers outfit, I do believe.
Renee -
I'm on my way.
Ha, now that's funny! I mean it's not funny about J. having to go through that and I really hope he's doing alright. But damn, black widows/scorpions, hurricanes, and earthquakes already and you've been there what, 3 months? I'll take a bit of cold and snow over that shit anyday!
Actually, I just hit 2 months.
I know, it seems a lot longer.
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