We took Kasi back to the dermatologist today, and the results were in...a spider bite! The nurse said she has never seen a spider do that to someone, so she had the doctor look at the slides twice. He found some kind of arachnid cells (or something like that) which leads him to believe it was a spider bite. What kind of spider...they have no idea. She asked a lot of questions about ticks and whether we spent time in the woods...well, yeah...we camp and fish, although the rash was on her back before we went camping. It just doesn't make sense to me that it started out small, and kept getting harder and bigger. Wouldn't a spider bite stayed one size? I guess I just need to trust their diagnosis...I mean, they are the experts.They took her stitches out, and the holes look almost healed. She has some butterflies on their now. I have to continue to work the ointment into her back for the next four weeks, and she goes back the Monday after Christmas. I gotta tell you, I was a whole lot better with the ride this time, which is funny because there was a lot more traffic due to the holiday. I think it had something to do with the fact that we had traveled it before, and I kind of knew what to expect.
So that's the story of Kasi's back. We are going to keep praying that the ointment takes care of it, and she is rash free very soon.
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though nowhere near as bad as Kasi's, Aidan got bit by a spider on fourth of july. His calf was so swollen you couldn't tell where his ankle and knee started. It had this huge knot and was red and inflamed. in the end it was a spider bite. I had never seen that happen.
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