Jun 18, 2011
Early wake up call
Poor Carmeh. She woke us up shortly after 6AM with a constant scratching. We told her to go back to sleep. She kept twisting and scratching…
Fat little face...
Something bit her, you can see a small bump over her rapidly swelling left eye. We think it must have been a spider that was here in the house. Unlike Mexico we don’t have to rule out scorpions & tarantulas. First I gave her a Claritin ( the human kind ) but soon saw that she was rapidly swelling and becoming more and more itchy so rather than give her 5mg Prednisone I chose to give her 1/2 of a 0.5mg tab of Dexamethasone which started to kick in within 20 minutes. I sat with her for a few hours and now she is back to normal. Not the way I like to start my Saturday.
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She really can get into stuff, can’t she? Adventuresome type!
Marty, this time it wasn’t her fault. She was sleeping when she got bit. We found a nasty looking spider later in the morning in the next room. I suspect it is what bit her. Poor baby.
Good thing that there is a nurse on the premises!
I hope that Carmeh is feeling better now and that the swelling has gone down. Poor thing!
Kevin and Ruth
Poor baby, what a horrible thing to happen, any dibs on what kind of spider?
No idea what kind of spider it was but the one we found had a large body and moved so fast that even when you were watching you could miss it move!! Colin said it was colorful but couldn’t elaborate.