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Booked!...They got my bloodwork back from the lab and concluded I was sick out in St.Louis from a spider bite

What the hell kind of spiders you guys got out there
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If it was the Brown Recluse spider, consider yourself lucky.
http://www.e-bug.net/pests/spiders.shtml
I think I heard that 50% of the people that are bitten react to the bite. Many are fatal, most cause severe distruction. Not a good spider to mess with.