if you ever look at travel guides to australia, one of the things you’ll notice about every guide out there is the warnings concerning the wildlife. apparently au has the most deadly, poisonous and dangerous critters in the world. spiders, snakes, jellyfish, sharks just to name a few.
but hello, i live in the city and there’s no way i’m getting myself out camping in the wildlife where i’ll run into this stuff. so i havent paid much attention. except for when i was here on holiday and tried surfing, scuba, snorkel. then i was very aware of sharks, jellyfish (which i didnt see) and stingrays (which i did).
a couple weeks ago one of the girls comes into work and tells us how she woke up at 4am because her lip tingled. went bk to sleep and woke up again shortly after because she was in pain. when she looked in the mirror her lip was really swollen. so she goes to the hospital.
now, would u do that? i sure as hell wouldn’t. first i prob wouldnt even wake up to a tingle or a swollen lip. but if i did i’d think it was weird but i wouldnt end up going to the hospital.
turns out it’s good she did because she was bitten by a white tail spider. she spent like a day n a half at the hospital and it would seem they told her the following:
-it’s good she got there quickly so they could give her some anti venom shit
-they like to crawl in your throat and lay their eggs
-the typical human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime
-the white tail bastard causes this condition where ur skin falls off. ie it kills the cells. and apparently is v nasty.
she had to get a bunch of shots of stuff.
ok. HOW FUCKING GROSS!!!! can u imagine? i swear i’m buying a gimp mask or a fencing mask and sleeping in that from now on.