Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again

[Moss]

Yes, the rehab was for the spider bite. So, either it's an eight month old magic spider bite, or eight months of physical therapy responsible.

 

[Nash]

Yes, the rehab was for the spider bite. So, either it's an eight month old magic spider bite, or eight months of physical therapy responsible.

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of this:

1.Spider bite

2. Hospital

3. Feeling in his legs (at the hospital)

4. Rehab

That's what it meant by

then to rehab for eight months.

 

[Lyze]

I would side with my inner voice of reason (Moss) on this one. That's what I've been thinking all along.
It's simply the media trying to sell a story again.

Though I would like it actually sorted out, now.

 

[Nash]

I'm not saying the spider bite did anything, I'm just pointing out that Moss got the time line wrong. Physical therapy didn't bring the feeling back in his legs, that happened when he went to the hospital for the spider bite.

 

[Moss]

Yep, you're right. I just got confused by the "Five days later he was walking", I thought brown recluses were a more serious spider with a nerve effecting venom, which would have actually required rehab therapy after. I forgot that not every country has spiders as insanely poisonous as Australia.

At any rate, as it turns out brown recluse venom has no neurotoxins or serious nerve effecting agents in it, so it couldn't effect anything relevent to his condition. I'm guessing that the damage to his back was relatively minor and healed over the twenty or so years and he just didn't notice because he hadn't had any nerve tests done before being taken to hospital for the spider bite.

 

[Corvus]

Think that just about finishes it. The spider has no neurone infecting bits to its venom, just nasty necrosis stuff 
Still though, must be amazing to have been in a wheel chair for 20 years and then be able to walk again. lol at the charge though, but i do feel sorry for him

 

[Bellum]

Yep, you're right. I just got confused by the "Five days later he was walking", I thought brown recluses were a more serious spider with a nerve effecting venom, which would have actually required rehab therapy after. I forgot that not every country has spiders as insanely poisonous as Australia.

At any rate, as it turns out brown recluse venom has no neurotoxins or serious nerve effecting agents in it, so it couldn't effect anything relevent to his condition. I'm guessing that the damage to his back was relatively minor and healed over the twenty or so years and he just didn't notice because he hadn't had any nerve tests done before being taken to hospital for the spider bite.

Hey we have dangerous spiders! You don't exactly want to cuddle with a brown recluse, either.

 

[Moss]

Yeah, but these guys actually do want to cuddle with you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider

One of the worlds most venomous spiders, ridiculously aggressive and loves crawling into dark damp places like empty shoes. God bless Australia.

 

[Corvus]

toilet seats too

 

[Moss]

Nah, that would be mostly these little guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider

 

[thesneakster]

Oh god, I'm still learning about new types of snakes and spiders that live here. just to many...

 

[Moss]

I know, it's great isn't it? I love this damn country.

 

[Cymro]

I remember seeing a picture of an incredibly large picture of an Australian spider that was hiding behind a clock. It was quite disturbing

 

[Mage246]

Do Australians go through a bunch of crazy rituals before taking a ****/putting on your shoes/etc., or do you just behave normally and hope it doesn't happen to you?

Also, I was looking forward to a spree of paraplegics dying from spider bites in an attempt to cure themselves, but it looks like the spider had nothing to do with his recovery .

 

[thesneakster]

Do Australians go through a bunch of crazy rituals before taking a ****/putting on your shoes/etc., or do you just behave normally and hope it doesn't happen to you?

Depends.

If you keep a clean house, have screens on all the windows, keep the door closed etc. you generally wont get to many nasty's inside. (also, if you live in an area with gecko's, they reduce the populations even further).

However, if you don't (say, like when it was winter a few years back, so no gecko's, and there was a hole in the screen on my window), they can get in (for instance, when there was a small hunstman on the wall above my bed. During the middle of the night)

 

[jasonxfri13th]

Do Australians go through a bunch of crazy rituals before taking a ****/putting on your shoes/etc., or do you just behave normally and hope it doesn't happen to you?

Also, I was looking forward to a spree of paraplegics dying from spider bites in an attempt to cure themselves, but it looks like the spider had nothing to do with his recovery .

Who knows, he may have been in the perfect situation for it to happen. The bite and his injuries might have been in the exact right place for it to happen.

 

[Moss]

However, if you don't (say, like when it was winter a few years back, so no gecko's, and there was a hole in the screen on my window), they can get in (for instance, when there was a small hunstman on the wall above my bed. During the middle of the night)

I had a pair of those that lived under the piano in my old room, Bright Eyes and Fuzzy. Cutest spiders you ever did see, even if Fuzzy did get a little aggresive sometimes.

Who knows, he may have been in the perfect situation for it to happen. The bite and his injuries might have been in the exact right place for it to happen.

OUCH! That spider just bit my spine!