A Boy Put On A Pair Of Suspicious Socks. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys.
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These cases are patients who I, or my colleagues have seen. They are de-identified and many instances have been presented in more depth in an academic setting. These videos are not individual medical advice and are for general educational purposes only. I do not give medical advice over the internet.
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I have a pair of socks on should I be nervous?
"It's just a bug bite. I'll be fine" he thought.
@@mazzar9633 Me too!
This guy, GG, is famous. People talk about him in literally every game I play.
I mean I’ve only played with a couple of people who know who he is, but they seem to know instead about this guy named ‘ez’
damn. i only know L
And his friend "EZ".
Is this the git gud dude? I've heard of him. Very famous gamer.
Don't get bitten again, GG
"gg no re"
Last time i put on a pair of socks i threw up my internal organs and presented to the emergency room unconscious. I’m really proud of you Chubby Emu, for showing the dangers of wearing socks.
Love your COMMENT, SO FUNNY THANKYOU. 😄😅🤣😂🏴🏴🏴🏴
Same
Srsly, whenever I feel that pinch or tickle inside a shoe, sock, or shirt, I rip it off like lightning.
If you or a loved one has suffered from putting socks on, you might be entitled to compensation.
organ donor speedrun
My late Papillon was bitten on her back by what the vets think was a Brown Recluse. She used to spend much of her time under guest room bed. We had no idea she’d been bitten until I was petting her and her fur came away in my hand revealing a frothy green mess. We rushed her to the Vet ER. They cleaned and shaved the area and revealed a huge infected area the diameter of a softball. There were no visible bite marks. But her skin became necrotic and turned black. It eventually healed underneath and the thick dead layer slowly peeled away. Her fur even eventually grew back. Mercifully she was otherwise ok.
She was a miracle dog. She suffered two strokes, that bite, pneumonia that required her being in an oxygen tent, and congestive heart disease - given mere months to live, she lived two more years! She eventually died in her sleep in bed with me and my husband due to that heart failure.
Her name happens to have been Gigi. I miss her dearly.
You were wonderful, wonderful pet parents to take care of Gigi through all her maladies and illnesses. And let's give a shoutout to your Vet as well. I hope you will keep adopting. There are many dogs who could use parents like you and your husband!
Sorry for your loss.
Reminds me my dog Homero,he was diagnosed with a heart desease but with treatment he lived 3 years more,he had many strokes ,but he always awake
Fun fact: In WWII black widow silk was collected by hand and used as the crosshairs in the gunsights for the US military. It’s so strong and durable but 1/5 the with of a human hair, it’s electric but also uniform in width and can withstand extreme temperatures making the tedious process of collecting the silk well worth the effort. Life magazine published an article crediting the spiders with their war effort August 30th 1943.
I heard permanent kidney damage, but then I heard 'made a full recovery.'
What an emotional rollercoaster.
In Canada, the call that _Eh_ recovery.
@@abrahamlincoln9758 Oh...... Canada.
People are born with spares, after all.
You can live normally with surprisingly low kidney function
@@abrahamlincoln9758 🤣
finally, a patient that actually tells the doctors whats going on (and brings the spider as well!)
At least one that retained his ability to speak after incident.
He is the most smartest I have seen till now.
@Death Omen plus who tf doesnt check what is in their sock when they think its a rock? i would have immediately taken the sock off and turned it inside out to get whatever it is out and i live where there is no dangerous spiders or bugs. maybe he was young and didnt know, but then its on the parents for not warning him
not so easy i got bitten by a spider in my pyjamas in asia, i looked high and low to find the body. I presume it ran off. it itched for quite about 5 months and was mildly sore for about 3. bite was left side of right knee so i suppose not much drainage going on
@Death Omen even if he did the googling and research necessary his parents might have ignored Him either way.
I’m Australian. If a spider bites you here- like the Sydney funnel web- you won’t have annny doubt you’ve been bitten. And even if they aren’t venomous, there are enormous hairy huntsman which are people say are more scared of me than I am of them but that’s stupid because that spider brain isn’t capable of the extraordinary level of irrational fear I feel when one is anywhere near me.
Most dangerous venomous spiders in the AUS do high doses of toxins. The brown recluse specifically has a lot of a protein that caused noticeable and often severe cellular death in human tissue. All of that and it’s tiiny
@@johannesjrgensen440 exactly. So although visually more terrifying, the funnel web is probably better to be bitten by cos you’ll know right away and get help. The PTSD you’ll suffer isn’t any fun but at least you won’t die. Probably.
Well for them the fear isn't irrational. Humans kill spiders all the time, who wouldn't be afraid of a giant murder machine that could literally kill you with its pinky?
Those huntsmen move way too suddenly and quickly for my comfort. I've heard some people let one stay in the house and even name it. Nope.
@@XSemperIdem5 I love the people who say ‘just get a piece of cardboard and a plastic container and catch them and set them free outside’ a)do you understand the concept of ‘phobia’ b) as soon as I go near it it’s going to run around hectically and therefore trigger my phobia even more and add to my pre-existing PTSD.
I’m glad that he show ACTUAL brown recluse spiders in this episode. I’ve watched things on tv where they talked about brown recluse and they show wolf spiders or even cellar spiders instead. My house is full of brown recluse spiders. I used to see them on a daily basis. Once I found 8 in one night. I started setting glue traps and now o Lu see them once or twice a week. I have been bitten once but like he said, bites rarely get serious. I had a pea sized whitehead surrounded by a buckle sized dark purple ring. It was there about a week and a half then went away. Besides some pain, I had no other symptoms.
If possible, it's important to know what bit you, especially if it's an insect. For instance, if you're camping and you find a tick on you, you should tape it to an index card with the date and region written on it so that if the bite worsens the doctors can identify what dangers that bite poses.
This is good information!
If a snake bites you, be sure you grab that snake so it can be identified as well. Put it in a small box or basket so it can't escape. To make it easier to catch, you can play an instrument such as a flute while sitting a safe distance away.
What if I don’t have tape, index card, or marker while I’m camping
I do this with mosquitoes too.
@@IronDragon1337 Use your pockets, duh.
the scariest part of this is the fact that GG felt something in his sock, and didn't take 2 seconds to take off the sock and remove "the rock" that he thought was in there
That was what I was thinking! LOL, when did it become easier to limp around instead of pulling off the sock or shoe and check?
Well, he is the same person who couldn't care less about chaos on his room, doesn't surprise me.
Obviously squishing the spider enough made it seem non existent after enough steps. If it was actually a rock he wouldn't have been able to avoid the annoyance but since it was a spider it was crushed and you wouldn't feel it after a bite or 2 .AKA spider not as hard as a rock
Bending over to do that is haaaaaaaard 😂
the scariest part is that he called for an ambulance instead of uber.
Hi Dr. Bernard. I wanted to say thank you for striking a very logical medium between inducing paranoia or flippancy about the conditions in your videos, especially with the caveat at the beginning of this video. I'm properly medicated for paranoia as result of schizoaffective disorder, and as someone susceptible to extreme worrying when unmedicated, I really appreciate the tone and message of precautions from both the medical situations and the unrealistic reactions people may have to them. Always liked your content including the non-medical videos from a few years ago. Thanks and be well :)
My dad got bit by a brown recluse and the redness and swelling of the bite managed to spread all the way up his arm, so much so that he needed shots. That only made me fear spiders more. This was in Illinois by the way.
Southern Illinois?
My aunt got bitten in my uncles basement in Illinois by a brown recluse and it was not pretty.
Brown Recluse and Hobo Spiders are similar looking and are both found throughout Illinois. Their bodies, not counting their legs, are almost the size of a dime.
In fort Benning we had a guy get bit on the back of the neck. He hit the ground instantly. Would have died without immediate medical intervention.
Don't worry, you didn't scare me away from spiders, I was already afraid of them. Now I'm scared of socks
a friend of mine got bitten by a brown recluse while in Italy, and bc they definitely don’t have that species there, it was determined that it traveled in someone’s luggage she was staying with. They had to facetime a doctor here in the US to diagnose it bc the italian doctors had no clue.
We don't have very dangerous insects here, but it's rather common to shake garden boots and gloves before wearing them, and be cautious when putting your hands in garden furniture and such
Maybe it was a red recluse. They inhabit Mediterranean climate and they can inflict venom too. All of brown recluse sightings in europe are in fact red recluse...
That spider is lucky. He got to ride on first class for free!
@@chinchepunta most but not all, perhaps.
While it's true that the brown recluse isn't native to Italy, the Mediterranean recluse is.
Some corrections needed regarding spider species and ranges, which I feel are critical info: 1) The black widow isn't just one species, and they aren't the only venomous Latrodectus in the US. We've got at least five native Latrodectus species that I know of, and the family is best referred to as "widow spiders" or Latrodectus. 2) We've got other Loxosceles spiders along the southern border states, which are recluses that are brown, but not *the* brown recluse. 3) Thanks to human and cargo transportation, populations of any spider can exist outside of their generally accepted range. Don't trust a red line on a map to inform you whether the scary lesion on your foot is a brown recluse bite or not. If in doubt, get it looked at by a medical professional, regardless of where in the country you are. 4) BONUS ROUND: Invasive species! We've got all sorts of spiders from other continents that are brought by international shipping. Fortunately the venomous ones generally resemble our native species, but it's still very inaccurate to say that "only two species of venomous spiders are found in the United States".
I knew teens dirty socks can be toxic but GG takes it to a new level.
Kudos to the kid for actually bringing in the remains of the spider, probably saved the doctors a lot of time trying to figure this out
Lol. About the only sensible thing that he had done, i mean "Oh there's a rock in my sock that i just put on, lets just keep it on and walk differently" like what?
@@dontforgettobringatowel9106 Yeah I do that to but with my shoes as well lmao.
@@AlphaCarinae It is dumb but I do understand how it happens.
Altough I can see how someone might be reluctant to bring their crusty-ass old sock to the doctors, I guess the fact that it was an emergency helped
This is the best “clean you room” motivational video ever created. Parents everywhere thank you.
I sent this to my partner to get his shit together haha
Yes, he motiveted me for sure!
Except for when you live in a country with no venomous spiders that can cause this kind of issue, AND your kid knows it…
*Jordan Peterson impression* ahem. You need to clean your room man, not only will it make you a better person but it'll prevent weird spiders from crawling in your sock and pants. LOBSTERS!!
I don’t really clean my room, but I don’t throw my clothes everywhere. If they’re dirty, I throw them in the hamper. I'm not sure how much I'd have to worry about finding a spider where I live, though.
I absolutely love chubbyemu's videos but as a hypochondriac they are doing terrible things for my anxiety. I'll feel the slightest pang or other normal bodily sensation and then contrive this grandiose and irrational scenario that concludes with me experiencing organ failure or some shit.
Lmaooooo, but for real I feel this on a personal level.
I can agree with this 🥲
Knowing I'm not the only is tremendously helpful 🙂
ON FUCKING GOD BRO
friendly reminder to rationalize about how rare these scenarios are, that always helps me. out of 8 billion people, there's
a 1 in 8 billion chance this will be you.
So like everyone in the comments with spider stories, I'm Australian. When visiting my sister once in VIC and still living out of a suitcase on the floor I had a run in with a white tail spider. White tail spiders are venemous and can cause necrosis, can be lethal in children and animals as well but mostly it just hurts. These big spiders particularly love clothes/floordrobes and are hard to spot in a rush. A package was being delivered while I was still asleep (night shift) so first I had to scramble to find clothes so I wasn't looking like a human trashbag still in pyjammas at 1pm. Found shorts, got ready, spider.. fell out of shorts. Terrifying considering where I could've been bitten I began to panic and didn't see the spider (also probably panicked) rush up onto my 2kg chihuahua who, with 0 survival instincts, blinked at me with one eye and then the other. Having confirmed Bilbo has no brain between his eyes, I quickly went swiping through his thick floof which protected his tiny neck. I was finally bitten on the hand but managed to escape the room and rush outside holding a chihuahua and wearing no pants while quickly hiding behind the poor delivery dude. The delivery guy was so nice and actually got the spider onto his clipboard because it had only fallen off my hand near the doorway.
A very chaotic situation followed by my hand actually being checked by a vet because I was so panicked it was on Bilbo that I didn't think about my bite until the vet had helped check the door who turned out to just be anxious but bite free!
Pick up your clothes, unpack your suitcases, shake out your clothes if they fall on the floor and if you leave shoes outside you should always stomp on the ends and shake them out as this is a common way to be bitten. Also if you are bitten by a spider or snake or anything then go see a nurse at your doctors office or go to ER if you notice anything unusual. If it's summer or it's a common situation where something may be a spider bite i.e pain in foot while getting ready, check. If a pet is acting strange and you aren't sure why, check, call a vet and if you notice a bite or anything strange then go straight away whether you see a spider or not.
In this case I saw the spider and would've taken him immediately but it easily could've been fatal and without knowing why he would've been acting strangely it most likely would have and been too late.
I got bitten by a big huntsman spider that was hiding in my shoe once (I'm Australian) and now I always bash the crap out of my shoes before I wear them.
What are you even doing here?
noot noot la crimosa when
SMB is Australian??
@@DaniSC_real Refer to their 'About' tab: "We're based in Brisbane, QLD, Australia,"
I'm more worried about these European and Japanese hornets. They're huge (even the European ones) and I've put my shoe on before only to have them buzzing mad. Luckily I wasn't stung that time. Their stings are excruciating and I liken them to feeling like you've been shot. They even have put people in the hospital and have killed some people. It's even worse for my family as my Mom is allergic and I'm getting more and more sensitive to stings myself. Last time I was stung by a bee it swelled a half dollar size region about a half inch raised. She has to use an epi and even then only has about a half hour to get to the ER so she doesn't die from asphyxiation or her heart issues.
LMAO
I actually got laughed out of a hospital for a spider bite once. I was letting my dog in before heading to night shift and felt a tinge, I looked down at my quads and there were two recently made lesions within close proximity of each other. I went to work regardless, I've survived worse on the job like being run over by a truck and having a gun put to my head over a pizza. But, as the night dragged onwards I felt things, like shocks around the area and by 3:30 am, I had shocks all the way from my thighs to the tip of that toe and I went to the hospital. The doc examined it, I explained what happened, he said to give him a few minutes and we'll discuss treatment options.
After 10 minutes the doc hadn't come back in and so I peeked outside and heard the docs uproariously laughing and they said "Who the fuck comes in with a spider bite?" then, I knew for sure they were laughing at me. One said something along the lines of "Between option a) Polysporin, and option b) a cold compress, this guy chose option z) emergency room!" So, humiliated, I walked out and the medical team were still laughing at me as I sauntered away. I consulted Dr. Google, Tylenol, Polysporin and cold compresses worked and a few days later I was all good. That experience still sticks with me though as a clear cut example of unprofessional doctors.
That was shitty of them >:(
Thats ridiculous, as someone in the medical field, I will say a lot of us forget that things that may seem basic to us are not so basic to the general public but even so, that still should’ve never happened.
My grandfather died from a spider bite.
Very unprofessional. Glad it was not severe as seen here in the video.
Should have sued.
As someone who cannot stand bugs, I love spiders. I always play with them and let them crawl over my hands, then I'll always let em go without hurting them. Spiders do so much good for us that they're never given credit for.
I was bit on the face by one as a kid, and roughly in the same year a friend of mine was, I live in West Texas, where the only spiders are big and don't hurt you or tiny and "will kill you"(that's what they say at least). when I got bit it turned into a swollen bump on my face and that was basically it, my friend however got FUCKED UP by it, his face had a hole in it and it looked almost like mine but ten times worse, he then came down with MRSA, and was hospitalized for several weeks. conclusion: I am King of Spiders and my friend was denied the regency.
I got stung 4 times in one day as a kid bees and wasps I think sh*t haunted me for years after that 😂
@@RS-xq6je At one point in my life, before I moved to the Texas wilderness, I was shook by the thought of a stinging insect. At this point I've been stung so many times I've become complacent, and now when I get stung I just feel somewhat hollow and sore.
Like, why sting me? What tf did I even do? Not to mention the numerous scorpion and spider bites, as well as fire ants and plants that sting you! Everything stings you here. It's hell.
@@chuntguntley8771 😂 that sounds hell I would never camp with just my tarp and bag again.
I grew up in Oklahoma. Prime brown recluse real estate area. When I was in jr high, my mom got bit by one. She was just getting something out of her closet when it bit her. (Being messy or clean doesn't really matter. Those things will hide out in closets, drawers, chests, hanging bathroom towels, and pretty much anywhere else that's dark and mostly undisturbed.) When we took her to the hospital, we were able to bring the spider with us. The doctors were really excited because they had never had the opportunity to study one up close and personal before. They even asked if they could keep it so they could show it to all the other doctors. So, apparently my mom provided our hospital with valuable teaching material that evening.
"The doctors were excited"
I aspire to be this deranged one day
Exactly, being messy or neat has nothing to do with it. My mom’s rule is always shake out shoes & clothes before putting them on, & never go in the basement barefoot.
It's misleading to think it was about a messy room. It's more to do with whether the house has any entry points for spiders, and if there are many spiders in that area. Homes near any wooded areas or a home with a garden that can host a lot of spiders and is in an area for such spiders, will obviously be at greater risk of people coming into contact with them. You could have a super messy and cluttered room in some NYC tall apartment, on the 10th floor, and you'll probably never spot a spider.
@@nachtegaelw5389 Absolutely! I lived in a heavily wooded neighborhood, so it seemed like we had tons of those things. It got to the point where I had to check EVERYTHING before doing ANYTHING. Not just check the sheets before bed, but even make sure all the pillows had been checked on both sides, check the towels AND shower curtain before taking a shower, shake out EVERY piece of clothing before putting it on... it even got to the point where I was checking sandals and flip flops before slipping those on!
@@Sarah_D. This is my nightmare
"There are only 2 known venomous spiders in the continental US"
Interesting, in continental Australia they count the spiders that *aren't* venomous.
😂😂😂 not just spiders I hear…
Spoidas
All spiders are venomous. Every single one.
@@Aquascape_Dreaming Thats technically incorrect, as spiders in the family Uloboridae and the genus Holarchaea lack venom.
But yeah, every other spider is venomous, which is still the VAST majority of spiders.
To be really technical about it we have two _genera_ of venomous spiders in the continental US. As the map showed, we don't have any Loxosceles reclusa in Flagstaff but we have plenty of a related and more venomous species. Loxosceles arizonica. Our dog was bitten by one as was a neighbor down the block.
I live in the Ozarks, and brown recluse are *everywhere.* Never got into an unpleasant interaction with one yet, fortunately. I sweep them out of the house, and let the larger huntsman and wolf spiders stay (within reason). They've outcompeted the black widows and brown recluse (the two venomous US spiders; we've got both here), and along with clearing out the nonmoving water near our stream to eliminate mosquitoes they never show up in the house anymore.
This is a good video! It’s not what I was expecting based on the “suspicious pair of socks” tittle!
I understand that cases like these are rare, but there’s always going to be that lingering paranoia in the back of our heads.
Especially after watching this video lol
yeah...
The only thing different from me and the guy in this case is the fact that I haven't been bitten 🤯.
a little? i *always* have paranoia. (and i have even more now that i know that i *live* in a place where these spiders live- HELP-)
I’ve been bitten and it’s fine. My moms allergic and she said it’s fine
Watching as an Australian, the fact that there isn't an antivenmon for one of the two venomous spiders in your whole country seems insane to me! With tens of venemous spiders in Australia, including the Sydney Funnel Web which is the 2nd most venmous, we have programs dedicated to harvesting their venom to create antivenom for human use.
That's because our venomous spiders are about as likely to bite you as a gaming addict living in their mom's basement is to get a job. Only when death is REALLY imminent.
It seems your spiders are more go getters.
Yeah been bitten by red back.
There are only 2 medically significant spiders in Australia. Redbacks and funnelwebs. There’s no antivenin for recluse because it isn’t really necessary, it doesn’t kill people
Because they dont need anti venom to treat recluse or widow bites
Were too busy shooting each other up to worry about antitoxins.
3:13 well of COURSE that waffle came back WTH IS THAT???
I thought I had gotten over my arachnophobia a while ago, but this one creeped me out a little. It’s a good thing I don’t live an area with brown recluse spiders because I always leave my socks on the floor 😂
As an Australian, it blew my mind to learn that there are only two known breeds of venomous spiders in the US.
And it blows my mind that Australians are just used to living with so many venomous animals. And don't some of your spiders eat birds?
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld Dont know where the hell you got that from lmao but none of our spiders eat birds. We're all taught animal awareness/safety basically as soon as we can walk. Its one of the reasons why dying from venomous animals in Australia is extremely rare
@@cubriffic172 Those are cool facts to learn at 4 am. Thank you! 😊
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld No problem! Sorry if I came off as a bit rude/blunt haha 😊
@@TheGirlInFandomWorld you're referring to the goliath bird eating spider, and they live in South America
Years working pest control, I only got bit by a spider a few times. Recluses and black widows are both defensive and will try to flee if at all possible and will not bite unless they feel they can't escape (such as being trapped in a glove, sock, boot, etc.) As the doctor said, the bites generally don't amount to anything other than discomfort. Black widow bites hurt (I've been bitten exactly once) but as far as I'm aware are not threatening except to the infirm and those that have an allergic reaction. I think the last recorded fatality in the US was like 1984 or something?
Black widows are actually super docile. You can handle them much like you would a tarantula or other spiders that are known to be pretty chill, and as long as you don't make them feel trapped, it's very unlikely they'll bite. Though I wouldn't just go out and grab one in the wild just for shits and giggles.
Brown recluses tend to prefer basements, cardboard piles, the undersides of unused furniture, that sort of thing. They like to hide. They will weave very erratic, messy looking webs but mostly roam around. You are unlikely to find them in your home if you keep it clean. Remember to check crawlspaces and attics periodically (or contract a pest control outfit to do it for you.) If you have a clean home and are finding recluses in your closets or wherever, they're probably crawling in from the attic or in-between spaces through HVAC vents.
Black widows... kind of prefer much the same areas. Closed off, not too much activity. They weave webs that tend to look a bit messy. They're known for having tougher than usual silk. Blue mud daubers are a primary predator of black widows; if you see a lot of blue mud daubers around, you probably have black widows around. But given how common they are, it's not unusual to find them.
Keep in mind there are many copycat species that look similar but are not these two spiders. Trying to look like a dangerous critter is very common in nature as a survival strategy. The primary way of discerning an actual brown recluse is the eye arrangement - as the doctor showed, brown recluses have three pairs of eyes. Copycat species will have a different eye arrangement.
In general, if you're seeing more than the occasional spider in your home (of any species), then you probably need to clean up and root out whatever flies, roaches, or other critters those spiders are hunting. If there's no prey to be found, the spiders won't be there (or at least won't be visible, there's always critters in your walls and in-between spaces.)
Wow, this was super informative. Thank you!
thank you very much, this is great😄
Thank you
I have black widows all around my property, and I generally just let them be. They do occasionally set up shop around my pool pump though, so a couple times a year I have to grab a piece of paper or cardboard and move them somewhere more ideal.
I'd much rather deal with the spiders than the palmetto bugs, flies, mosquitoes and other pests.
Thanks, I'm buying a flamethrower
Fact: it's likely that almost all cases of necrosis linked to a brown recluse could be a MRSA infection from any puncture. This is a rare case, we just tend to blame spiders for everything.
Okay, instead of using spiders to scare us, you're actually making us scared of being messy xD
He felt a sting but instead of taking a look, he just changed the way he walked to not feel it again. That's me when it comes to everything in my life.
Especially in the US with healthcare being so expensive
The NPC who goes "must have just been the wind" after 10s of searching for you after an epic gunfight which resulted in the death of half the guards is based on us.
😂
It always been that one single grain of stray kitty litter astray on the hard wood floor relentless sweeping never catches, which got stuck to your foot before putting on your socks. Until now 😂
@@moonlightwolf That doesn't make sense. If anything, you want to get anything done as early as possible. Medical is always cheaper during prevention or early stage.
I wish my Subscriptions had a "Drop Everything for This One!" Section. This channel is definitely in that category.
I have been noticed!!
Chubbyemu has always been a great find! 👍
I got bit by a spider on the eye as a kid. I've also been immunocompromised my whole life (prior to the bite). Other than the bruising left behind (and I'm sure there was some throbbing, I was too young to remember), nothing bad happened. Spiders are scary cause they are startling and move super fast but don't be too scared! They're just trying to live their best lives and they help with all the other bugs!
Thank you for your channel in all the work you put into it
You have just given a very powerful tool to all mothers of teenagers. Conclusion is 20% medical intervention, 80% "clean your damn room."
Also make sure they know to keep a close eye on any and all insect bites. Even if they weren't from anything venemous they can still introduce nasty bacteria!
@@QueenOfCatsX3 Any break in the skin, really.
Tbh gg was just unlucky, the spider could have well crawled into a well organized sock lmao.
It's always a great day when Chubbyemu comes out of his monthly coma.
I reckon he's busy the rest of the time...think he's a doctor or something....
*Presenting To The Emergency Room* ☝️
LOL! My thoughts exactly. It's like a monthly Christmas.
He thought
You don't have to worry about presenting in a way that you could be scaring us- I enjoy your videos just the way they are! Entertaining and educational from beginning to end (also wanted to mention I love your voice too)!
feeling that tickle under the sheets and knowing its a spider is one of the worst things about living
For the record, for anyone who's nervous of spiders... I'm a spider keeper, and I can say with confidence I would have no fear or concern in handling EITHER a Loxosceles sp or a Latrodectus sp (Black Widow)... they just aren't likely to bite, and even if they do, it requires them to be pressed against the skin (such as the case that is listed here) for the fangs to actually penetrate and envenomate more than just the first thin layer of skin. They're both very small species of spiders with equally small fangs! Big props to Chubbyemu for the disclaimer, for pointing out you shouldn't kill spiders, and for discussing how often cases are misdiagnosed as spider bites!
Handling is much safer than unknowingly pressing one against the skin, as clothes do. One of my brothers was bitten on the knee by a Black Widow; a coworker was bitten by one but wouldn't say where. Both reported "flu-like" symptoms for three days. Our German Shepard was bitten by a Loxosceles arizonica, resulting in the classic 2 1/2 by 3 inch necrotic ulcer. Handling is safe enough, but living among them and obliviously crowding them is not.
I was pleasantly surprised by the disclaimers.
We had a couple orb weavers sitting outside our backdoor last year (I don't think they survived the winter unfortunately). My mom, who has pretty severe arachnophobia, wanted me to deal with them. I, on the other hand, do not have arachnophobia (unless they're on me...just, please, stay off of my skin, and I will leave you alone), and I also knew how damn good these things are at keeping other pests like moths, mosquitos, and what not from invading your home. The best in natural pesticide. So, I had to insist that we just leave them be, despite how ugly they looked, because getting rid of them would likely do more harm then good.
Here in Australia things are very different. Spider bites can indeed kill you and I heard a Peppa Pig episode where she explained to her brother that spiders can't hurt you was not allowed to be screened here in case children believed this and were harmed.
im more than nervous of spidersr... i cant even watch this video
Not even halfway through and I can already feel things in my socks.
Me too. And I'm not even wearing socks
Dude I fucking hate spiders, why did they have to be designed to be creepy
@@VortexKiller2 I'll take a spider over a hornet any day of the week.
@@LuccaAce me too and I havent even watched the video yet!@!!
Im not wearing socks but I have the total phantom spiders on me now lol
At least GG admits he urinates in the shower.
We had Chilean brown recluse spiders where i used to live there (and are according to Wikipedia the most dangerous brown recluses). I'd lift up the pool cover on the astronomical diplomatic compound pool in the morning and they'd fall on the water and I'd have to fish one or two out. They were fast but not aggressive and looked pretty much identical to those.
I see you mention these later on around 11:55.
If the being an awesome doctor thing ever doesnt pan out for you then you definitely have a future in creating titles for movies, shows, and books
That story of catching 2600 brown recluses reminded me of my own home at one point. I had a leak under my house one time and called a plumber. He crawled under there and came out and said it was fixable, but only AFTER I got pest control out. Said the leak created a large pool of standing water, like 8'x4' and it was breeding tons of flies and mosquitos...which in turn attracted TONS of spiders. Then he showed me pictures he took of the ceiling of the crawlspace. It was like clouds the webs were so thick. There were literally THOUSANDS of spiders, including many, many clusters of black widows--which are usually solitary, but I guess food was so plentiful they were tolerating one another. He said I probably had several hundred black and brown widows alone, with recluses farther out. And an unusually high number of scorpions and probably centipedes although he didn't see any. He had close-up pictures of multiple webs, each with dozens of identifiable widows living within inches of one another. All like 6 inches under my feet. It was eerie wondering how long until a bunch came crawling up through cracks in the floors or something.
I'm begging you tell me what happened next
gotta throw out the whole house im sorry
Really wish RUclips allowed links to be posted. I’d love to see the photos of this crawl space.
Yepppp my brother has a bunch of black widows in his crawl space
I cannot imagine how bada** this guy was to stay down there and take pictures
The slight sarcasm toward messy teenagers got me 😂 “but he didn’t care!” “Walk different, no more rock, easy!”
Eh, the amount of mess they showed in the video seems abnormal, like depression or adhd or the like kind of abnormal, I say as an autist with ADHD and lifelong "higher functioning" depression. That amount of mess where clean and dirty intermingle so much is super abnormal with neurotypical kids that age. It's like how healthy humans don't find it a acceptable to shit where they eat, but some people who are incredibly incredibly depressed basically live in a single room of their apartment/house where they eat delivery food and poop in trash bags and live in a pile of dirty clothes and various trash and bugs because their depression messed them up too much.
22 year old here. Sometimes my thought process is that simple lol.
pile system might be a symptom of ADHD, so not really laziness
i tend to build a mental map of my piles, so yeah, a very odd organized chaos
That part baffled me. Like, dude, you aren't at least curious to see what that thing that feels like a rock in your sock is? Change your socks already! lol!
I've gotten bit on the chest by one of these, it takes SOOOOO LONG for them to heal! It just eats away at your skin for awhile, then finally starts closing up. I'm in Kansas where they are literally EVERYWHERE, and I've lived in dorms with infestations of them. they are huge and not fun to deal with, but rarely will they kill you. probably a good idea to go to a doc though!
True story, my father actually one morning woke up and saw our house cat playing with one of my mothers shoes. Staring at the shoe and circling around it my dad was like "what the heck is he doing". Lord behold when my dad went over there was a scorpion hiding inside and he quickly put it outside at the edge of the property.. Thank goodness both the cat and my dad were paying attention. It was hiding in her work shoes she puts on daily. It really is crazy thinking about it. Again this legit happened. scorpions weren't common in our home but we did come across maybe 5-6 over the 20+ years of being in that house? Anyway... just a reminder for yall to be careful
My husband was bitten by a brown recluse, on the back of his leg about mid thigh. It started out small, about the diameter of a quarter. By early afternoon it was about the diameter of a tennis ball. I told him, that's it we're going to the ER. The doctor said, yup, that's a brown recluse bite. They gave him antihistimines, antibiotics, and a 7 day course of steroids. He recovered fine.
I think the reaction people get from the doctors depends on where they are. We live in the "brown recluse zone" shown on the map in this video, so the doctors here are very aware.
I do appreciate the disclaimer about spiders. I handle them often (wild and pets) and the only bite I've ever had was one stuck under a blanket. They're really shy and only bite if they feel trapped and can't run.
I have a habbit of throwing my long johns on the floor and this spring I have had three spider bites so far, we don't have dangerous species around here but it can sting and itch like a mother fucker and the site becomes necrotic.
They can press * to return to the last checkpoint
Chubbyemu - "I'm not trying to scare you about spiders, but failing to clean your room can have catastrophic consequences kids."
You are a seriously brilliant teacher. You make things interesting and fun❤
Just a note: Not cleaning your room like that can also be a result of depression, or a breakdown of executive function. If your kid's room is a mess, especially if it they're usually neater, don't just assume laziness.
yes! theres so many reasons a room can be messy, and barely any are the kids fault or just "laziness"
Weirdly enough these kids who can't clean the room think they should hold the power to clean the world. Just look at the folks on twitter.
Or it's just how I wanna live my LIFE, mom!!! (But seriously, sometimes people are just cluttered, and that's fine, too. I'm a very messy person, always have been, as long as it's not a danger to your health and safety like hoarding-levels of clutter, then who cares?)
Breakdown of executive function? I’ll have to Google it
@@annacostello5181 a lot of ADHD people have executive dysfunction issues that can make cleaning your own room literal hell. Cleaning up your room alone can begin with you folding clothes and ending up buying more paperclips while Never having finished folding clothes.
Exacutive dysfunction often appears as the inability to start a task at hand. The famous blank page problem for writers for for daily life with adhd
with the surprising amount of "made A, recovery" cases I've heard, I'm so relieved to hear that he had made a full recovery:)
very interesting and informative episode as always, thank you
Especially considering the heavy "PERMANENT kidney damage" earlier, I wasn't expecting it
Spoiler alert 😆😆😆
@@Chocomint_Queen nooooo dammit spoilers!!
I honestly feel much safer around spiders than with humans. Lol. Once I saw your awesome note about capturing and releasing spiders outside, it confirmed my need to subscribe. What an informative & animated episode. Thank you!! 🥰
GG has a point about losing things when his mom would clean...When I was his age (and even now to some extent) away from home and my car, I was a complete neat freak. At home, or in my car, everything looked wrecked. However I could tell you where every single thing was... until someone cleaned... My mother always went around in socks at home so I started leaving 4 sided D&D dice all over the floor in my room as caltrops to...discourage meddling.
That's brilliant.
this exact thing happened to friend's mom. she lives in Wisconsin in an old farm house and was bit in her sleep. the amount of antibiotics she needed from the ever increasing necrosis caused her liver to fail and she needed a transplant. now she's permanently disabled and needs to be on a breathing machine 24/7. Recluses and the secondary issues they cause are no joke.
THESE THINGS ARE IN WISCONSIN 😭😭😭 naw I gotta move
@@Twisted.Stitches 😅😅 yeah, but they're not common - they're reclusive. haha Honestly, I think they only live in the southern part of the state. we're in the Milwaukee burbs, so if you're further North you should be safe. 😘
Holy crap that's... terrifying. Oh my gosh. I hated spiders already but now I'm terrified.
Feelsgood to live in Scandinavia, where we have no venomous critters
@@Twisted.Stitches Keep some big and small lizards in your house. They will eat everything!
Bro your videos are so educational god bless for exams so good, also entertaining, you recieve a medal, you are a hero, a legend, thank you
Chubbyemu: "Sincerely. I do not mean to scare people on spiders."
Also Chubbyemu: Scares the absolute ever living s*** out of everyone on spiders.
Honestly all the spider crawling clips were way scarier than the story. I know you need relevant clips but seeing that was far more unnerving than the facts of the case, which were just "spider in sock on floor bites human"
When I lived in Texas I was taught from Day 1 to tap my shoes upside down against the wall a few times before putting them on to be sure there were no spiders inside the toes. Also taught never to put your hand into a dark cupboard that you couldn't see into. Solid advice.
A not uncommon practice in Aus either, always been told to not leave your shoes outside but if you do, give them a good couple of taps against the wall.
We were taught this as well, not only spiders, but scorpions as well. More than once a critter has tumbled out, and that's enough for me to keep up the practice :) Stay safe y'all!
Luckily I live in a region that doesn't require me to worry about a 3-eyed, 8-legged bastard making my dunks his new crib.
yep my neighbour lost a finger to a viper that way, viper bites arent that common
I thought that was more for scorpions?
Good job on the patient for bringing the sock with him to help ID the spider, and for giving a clear, chronological history of events. I know it's not always possible when presenting to the emergency room, as it's often not by choice, but it helps care providers a LOT. If it's safe to bring the bug (or a picture of it,) the pill bottle, the thing you got cut on, etc., bring it as it could save tonnes of vital time. (Not a doctor or nurse, just chronically ill and nerdy.)
Absolutely good advice
Here's the thing. What most people don't know (including many doctors) is that Brown Recluse bites, and even Black Widow bites are almost never deadly, or even a reason to go to the hospital. I'd highly recommend watching Jack’s World of Wildlife's videos, where he lets himself be bitten by both a Brown Recluse, and a Black Widow to prove that they are not as dangerous as people make them out to be (along with letting many popular stinging insects sting him). The reason you see those terrifying pictures of spider bites online of necrosing skin tissue is because of infections from not washing the bite area. It's almost never because of the actual bite itself. He's definitely a bit eccentric, and sometimes has a hard time staying focused, but I think it's part of the fun haha
These titles are getting too much😭
Agree
But it's not misleading at all? It just describes what happened and it doesn't leave out any important details either!
A guy I worked with came in one day showing all of us the bite he got that weekend. After he described the spider, thinking it was funny, my other coworker and i said dude go to the doctor, that was a brown recluse. He shrugged it off saying it was fine(it looked gnarly af) but two days later suddenly he was mia and when he finally came back after a weekish, yep, it was indeed a brown recluse bite and he was in the hospital.
Did he learn his lesson?
@@Shijaru64 he was pretty embarrassed but still tried to be all, no biggie🙄
I like spiders. I think they are eloquent little creaturs.
The way you told this story caused me more anxiety than I have experienced since February 2020. I began to hyperventilate.
I love your videos. Thank you.
The titles are getting wild. It’s only a matter of time until “A 56 year old man stepped on a Lego, this is how his spinal cord shut down.”
That great feeling you get when the person makes a full recovery is priceless. Thank you, chubbyemu.
Remember, spiders are homies. They eat mosquitoes and flies and just like to hang out in the corner most of the time
When you have a spider move in into your spot, make sure it's nice and comfy and can at least get SOMETHING when they're there.
If not, they will move out. Sad times.
They also seem to like to crawl on me. And crawling on me means you will get crushed. I’m sorry but I don’t fear them, but they can annoy me and disgust me sometimes. They can be my buddies outside my house and off my body
This is the first video he's made where he's said that you shouldn't be constantly anxious about this, which implies that you should be consciously anxious about literally everything else he's talked about
dude your sense of humor is awesome
One time I watched an episode of a show called I'm Alive (Season 1, Episode 1), and they detailed everything that happened to this kid's body after a black widow bit him. It was terrifying. The boy was in such incredible pain from head to toe that the doctors had to induce a coma; prior to that, he wouldn't stop screaming. The antivenom available in the US sucks, so the father had about a week to procure the most effective antivenom from Mexico. He just barely made it, but had he failed, the venom would have permanently damaged his son's nervous system.
Why isn't it in the USA like holy moly man
So, he would've been in a Vegetative state?
That’s horrific oh my goodness
I had a black widow bite me as a pool guy i walked through a ukept yard i got bit on bottom thigh i had a hole for a year where the flesh died every time i got out a vehicle the hole would rub and hurt . I had mild pain about 3 hours after the bite and soreness all over my body but it went away
@@coreyayers8575 Yeah, there's definitely a wide range of reactions from what I understand. I still don't really want to find out what mine is.
It's always such a relief to hear "was able to make a full recovery" at the end of Chubbyemu's videos 🥺
I love your videos!
I was bit by a brown recluse in 2001. I was bit on the left side of my left breast. First sign of a possible bite was the blister. To make matters worse, my breasts are numb due to a breast reduction I had in 1999. It was because of that, I did not feel any pain. I have to think I may have noticed something sooner if I felt the pain.
The blister expended. Then the skin was becoming necrotic. I was sent to see a very good dermatologist for a diagnosis. The dr was low key excited to see me & my bite site. He said it was the first one if the season.
In the end, the dermatologist removed all dead tissue & skin. Next I saw a plastic surgeon. It took 17 sutures to close it up.
This same exact thing happened to me when I was a teen. Recluse spider in my sock, necrotic legion on my ankle. I ended up getting a rash all over too, but thankfully I didn't have a particularly severe reaction like the one in the video. I was just extremely miserable.
To this day I check my socks even though recluse spiders are unlikely where I live now. Just some weird paranoia.
my great grandma grew up in central mexico and had the same kind of paranoia with scorpions and spiders in her shoes
though a snake did somehow end up in a truck she was in while trying to cross the border (frequent occurance around here) so maybe it was more justified
I wouldn't call it a weird paranoia, as it actually happened; but good thing you ended up being okay in the end :y
@@sabotabby3372 my friend has family in Mexico and they do the same thing
I got bit by one on the arm a long time back. Was playing games at my computer and it crawled out from under the computer and bit my forearm. Ended up having to go have the bit cut open and drained. After they drained and cleaned out the bite area, it took about 3 to 4 weeks for the area to fully heal.
Was staying in Australia with my aunt when i was a kid, found a funnel web spider inside my shoe pretty early on. Taught me to knock my shoes on the ground to check if there's anything in there real quick.
I'm hoping one day we'll get something like "a man expressed a brief doubt about whether he'd locked his front door, this is what happened to his grandmother's intestines" or "a small child drew a picture of a happy sun, this is how his brain necrosed." Either way, interesting viewing as always!
Well if that child were using cadmium yellow for the sun, and had been doing so for years... cadmium poisoning isn't fun, it can bring a boy to tears!
@@puttiplush Something like this would be an interesting video. Say repeated environmental exposure to a substance usually considered benign.
@@PG-wz7by there are a lot of cases of artists being poisoned by chronic exposure to toxins. Non-exhaustive list, but resin, some paints, most things that produce particulate that can become suspended in air, and even seashells have been known to severely disable artists- lead, fumes, mercury, dust laced with toxic stains and paints, etc are all known hazards of more intensive forms of art. I'd be VERY interested in a series on chronic toxin exposure in art supplies and jobsites like construction sites.
Woman goes to doctor with headache, this is what happened to her vision.
True story, unfortunately.
Huge appreciation for your factual approach to this case. There's almost no basis to be afraid of spiders hurting you (specifically brown recluses, black widows, and other infamous species); the only times they hurt people are due to human error and even then, it's only the weakest of the population who are seriously injured.
Seeing you not only state this fact, but also encourage a lack of harm to spiders and how to safely relocate them, is wonderful. As a spider lover, I can safely say that I and my eight-legged friends are quite thankful.
I was bitten by a brown recluse in Phoenix, AZ so yes, they do live outside of that red zone in the video. Almost shut down my kidneys and I was in the hospital for a week. Necrosis was not fun but the kidney pain was far worse.
As a person with severe arachnophobia, this was EXTREMELY hard for me to watch. But, I just sucked it up (and covered the screen when spiders came on) and watched it.
Out of curiosity do you just fear spiders or non-spider arachnids like Scorpions, mites or ticks?
I've made it to the middle of the video thus far. Averting my eyes whenever a spider comes on-screen. It's still giving me the shivers. I congratulate you friend, for even though we are strangers perhaps seperated by an ocean, we are bound by our irrational fear of eight-legged creepy crawlies and I understand how hard it is to forcibly expose yourself to them, even if it's only virtual imagery/spider-reminiscent stimuli.
@@silverdeathgamer2907 Not the OC, but I'm fine with all of these creatures.
just tolerate them fr
check out the 6 step nlp method for getting rid of phobias
"They're going to take a bite out of you and crawl up your nose, or into your brain one day" he joked.
...but that day was now, and it wasn't going to be a joke.
Fuuuuuuuucking devastated, holy hell. These lines and this delivery... O.O
I love your channel as it's so amazing! If I became a doctor, I would have a lot of fun studying toxins! Fascinating and terrifying. Also ur channel stresses me out! But I love it.
This is my actual worst nightmare and I’m horrified it really happened to someone. One of the main motivations I’m clean and tidy 😫
True story. I used to live in a cabin in the Kisatchie Natl Forest. There were tons of little brown spiders all over. I would play with them and even have them sit on my arm. One day my friend came over and said, 'you know those are brown recluse spiders, righttttt?' No, I didn't know. And after living there 3 years I never got bit once.
I'm folding my laundry right now. Lesson learned
@@danieldavis3035 Oh, so it will only happen if you're actively murdering one of them with your ginormous feet? I guess that's good news to many of us paranoic people 😅
Oh great, this video takes place in St. Louis where I live. O.o
@@danieldavis3035 They're really not aggressive spiders. They only bite if they feel threatened or if you accidentally step on one or roll over on it.
A boy watched a chubbyemu video late at night. This is what happened to his sleep schedule.
dont just call me out like that
Hahahahahaha fuck i laughed at this
"Suspicious socks"
"Walk different - feel no rock! Easy fix!"
This episode is so memeable... 😆
Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
as an entomology enthusiast: bringing the perpetrator of the bite with you is PARAMOUNT! bites cannot be distinguished by the bite alone. doctors are also not trained in entomology, so do them a favor and bring the biter with or at least try to grab a picture
This guy seemed a more knowledgeable than most doctors and it was really lucky the kid still had the spider.
i will add to this, if you bring the perpetrator in, bring them in in a sealed container so it doesn't bite anyone else.
@@heliveruscalion9124 what if the perpetrator is your dad? He finally comes back from the store with the milk he promised after 20years of absence and then he bites you.
In chile, where Loxoceles laeta lives essentially on every home, doctors ARE trained to recognize both the bite and the spider itself. and tbf half the population can recognize the spider at a glance. spidey is scary asf. source: am doctor.
@@airye i love that. Im just speaking from my north american experience where some people claim a Loxoceles reclusa bite even when they are way outside the range 😆
As a spider enthusiast, I found this video very informative. Indeed, there are only two medically significant spider species in the United States, the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow. Spiders use up a lot of energy, so they don't go out of their way to bite people. However, if a spider feels trapped and like there are no other options, it has the potential to bite, like any other wild animal. So don't squish them, but give the little dudes some space.
I also feel a little called out, my room is a complete mess. Lol.
I bet you 12 more likes that my brother's room is messier than yours. 🤣
Why squish when fire.
So when you find a spider do you get excited instead?
@@berthaantoinettamason9207 we out here
and when u accidentally squish a pregnant spider and all da babies come out
The fact that their venom is heat sensitive may be why my sister’s brown recluse bite on her inner thigh got so advanced. The freaking thing had climbed up her pantyhose while she was doing some quick yard work and likely got semi squished when she started walking, thus triggering the bite. It took a couple months to heal and looked like an open staph infection. Very yikes all around. And yes, we live in Kansas not even 20 minutes from that case study on the 100 year old home with 2,600 captured.
Years ago I was bitten by a spider on my chest area and my skin looked like it had fallen off. Absolutely horrible experience. Hope your sister is okay.
Thanks for the note to catch and release spiders, it's important to be kind to bugs, especially bugs that eat bugs!
Thank you for being clear about how rare these complications are for recluse/ widow bites. They have a very unfair reputation. I was nervous when I saw the thumbnail but I ended up learning a lot! Like some other people in the comments have mentioned, spiders are extremely reluctant to bite and they typically need to be put in a position where retreat is impossible for them to be provoked into biting. I keep spiders and tarantulas as pets and have never been bitten because they are all given space in their enclosures to hide when I need to open the enclosure for maintenance. They really are special little animals
Thanks for this! I'm a tarantula owner too and I only been bitten once, which was my fault. Luckily I had no major reaction besides some slight swelling and itchiness. They rarely ever bite and if they do, as you said it's because they are put into some situation where they feel the need too in order to defend themselves. They are definitely wonderful creatures!
Craẓy spider bᶖtcḣ, no wonder you r defending the spider.
we had one in our house it didn’t bite
When they are symptomatic the Loxosceles bites can be horrific. One left a 2 1/2 x 3 inch necrotic ulcer on our poor German Shepard's rump; it mostly healed in two months. Do not underestimate the risk. We presume the spider was on the wall the dog leaned against to go to sleep.
Ayyyy T keepers unite
I learned to always leave my clothes inside out when in areas where spiders, or other critters are possible - guess that's anywhere. I learned this in the military from when we would go out in the field. Obviously it doesn't prevent critters from getting on to your clothes, but it gives you an immediate, clear view of the part of your clothes that will be against your skin, and forces you to examine your clothes before putting them on. Without doing this, it's more likely that someone will get up and mindlessly throw their clothes on without taking much caution. Always shake out your boots, or shoes before putting them on. I am so super paranoid about critters being in, or ony clothes. I am just as paranoid about them being in my bed!
In san bernadino i almost stepped on a scorpion heading out of the camp house it was chilling next to my boots my buddy grabbed my leg . Complacency kills
That’s a really interesting way to go about it, I’ll try that out now!
Than there is places like Hawaii, where you have gigantic centipedes that just walk right up into your house like "Yo."
Thank you... i will start putting my clothes inside out for this
I don't turn my clothes inside in after washing until I put them on because I'm lazy. Good to know it's also smart.
thank you for bringing up that without a clear image, or bringing the spider in you can't say for certain that's it's a recluse bite! many times you hear a story about an alleged bite- but no, they didn't catch the spider, they didn't actually see the spider bite them, well actually they didn't even see a spider, and worse they don't live in an area where recluses are even endemic... but i guess the story of "i got bit by a scary venomous spider and LIVED" is much more exciting to tell than "i had a bacterial infection"
I love that you encourage people to release spiders outside rather than killing them and not to be afraid of spiders just because of a video like this. It's very easy to have a scorched-earth reaction to spiders but they are just trying to live their life. There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die.
But they will die, as they are not immortal.
I think spiders are not sentient beings, so they are not aware of their of their own existence. So I don't see any moral implications of murdering them....
"There's no malice to their actions, so there's no reason for them to die."
Nor is there any benevolence in their programmed-by-evolution behavior, so there is no particular reason for them not to die.
I do that with normal harmless house spiders, let them back outdoors. Although if it were a brown recluse or black widow I’m getting the sandal or hairspray with lighter and sending it back to hell!
@@zachduperron8543 there are no black windows where I live
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 you’re safe then
@@robertjenkins6132 agreed
I locked myself out of my apt one evening. When I sat down on the deck to wait for my neighbor I put my leg down on a brown recluse and it bit me. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Fortunately I was able to take the spider to the hospital with me and they verified it was a brown recluse. I ended up having a systemic reaction. The venom from the bite caused my kidneys, which have already been damaged due to Lupus, to shut down. I already had hypokalemia and the bite exacerbated it causing me to go into cardiac arrest. The area of the bite became necrotic and I developed an ulcer the size of a baseball. I was actually in the hospital for several weeks. I now have a golf ball sized "crater" in my leg but it has at least healed. Even today, 10yrs later, everytime I think about it, it amazes me how the venom from such a small spider could cause so many health complications.
The doctor could have made a video of your case just as easily. Only he couldn't blame you for a messy room. I had a patient in the hospital who had to have his calf amputated due to a bite there.
@@cellgrrlDefinitely couldn't blame me for a mess! Memory and organization on the other hand is a different story! I have had some scary experiences related to my health issues but I don't think I will ever experience something as painful and scary. I feel so bad for your patient. That would have been an awful experience for them. Drs told me that I had been very close to an amputation. Hearing that shook me a little. I gave the drs permission to use my case as a teaching tool. Hopefully my experience can benefit others
Wow that's crazy, glad you're okay now!
I have lupus too that has given me kidney damage, and I was thinking how if I ever got bit like this it would be my absolute worse nightmare. Glad to hear you are all healed up now. Were your kidneys able to recover any of the function initially lost to the bite at all?
@@aqualife88 thank you! It was crazy. I am glad I followed my gut feeling and went to ER.
GG gonna be doing his laundry going forward 😂
Actually relieved that he made a full recovery. Would've been terrible for a teenager to have a permanent injury for the rest of his life because he made a mistake that almost anyone would make.