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I think some way on the trip home I got bit by maybe a spider or something. My Right hand started hurting at the knuckle on my ring finger at the hand. Then started swelling and here I am 3 days later and still swelling & red is here and a more red spot right over than knuckle. Getting tired of this thing.
Had a great Christmas and hope all of you did as well. No tying stuff, but plenty of good pipe tobacco.
Almost don't want to tie yet, but next week I know that I have to.
Skip
Better get that finger looked at. Some of those spider bites can get nasty.
Yes definately have the bite checked out and not surprised you did not get any tying stuff because your family and friends probably thought you had everything available on the market for tying.LOL!! Welcome back Skip.
Definitely take care of your finger. Good to hear you had a safe trip other than the spider bite.
Yep! My dad got bit by a brown recluse, ER doctor gave him something and said if it doesn't get looked at to go to his local doctor when he got back home. He started having respiratory problems, the doctor thought it was something else and ignored the spider bite, then my dad made him give him something for it. Moral of the story, don't take no for an answer if there's a problem, and get it looked at!Quote:
Originally Posted by gabowman
Glad to have you back. By all means see a doctor asap. Your body is trying to tell you something. When you finish get some cavendish for your pipe and rest. Happy New Year Skip. The fish and the tying will wait until next year.
Well decided to go to the Doc this afternoon and she was going to give me a shot for anti-imflamotory stuff, but said for 3 days absolutely no sugar including alcohol. Well that would normally be ok, but I told her that I was going to have some nice wine tomorrow evening so no shot and I would take my Prednisone that I keep handy for my mistakes with my back. She agreed with me and I came home and now the pain is pretty much gone so one more half pill tomorrow morning and should be done. Made my whole hand or 3/4 of it swollen and almost can't see any knuckles other than the first 2.
Ship I have some really nice aged tobacco that is going to get in a pipe over this weekend, maybe several different ones, LOL! I am just a puffer though, no inhale for me and just love the flavors and great pipes. Mixes with orientals in them really age different than most and start to have a earthy fruit flavor, like plums.
Thanks guys,
Skip
welcome back skip definitely get your finger looked at by a doctor. We have the lot of bad spiders here where I live and we have to be very careful where we stick our fingers especially in the basement and in dark places. We have brown spiders and black widows here plus many other poison things like rattlesnakes and scorpions. So we have to be real careful on the rancher here. We usually kill about 14 to 17 rattlers a year. The black widows we leave them alone. They are good bug eaters though scorpions. We definitely kill they get in the house often on you have to be careful when you put your shoes on.
Your tobacco really sounds interesting. I haven't smoked a pipe in years, but can remember how good it smelled. I quit smokeing a little over a year ago, so I don't know if I could just puff and smell. Hate to ruin a year tobacco free. I can smell it now though.
I have gone completely bonkers over tobacco and putting lots back so it will age a couple years before I even open it since most is sealed or if not I put it in a mason jar and vacuum seal it.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter7711
Very slow sips keeping it right and tasting the natural sweetness of Virgina tobacco is awesome. I will at times blow out my nose to complete the taste thing since we use smell for taste too.
Don't start if you don't want to smoke, it's a choice I made to stop smoking cigars because they cost so much for good ones and it's harder for me not to inhale which I don't want any part of after 37 years of Marlboro Reds which I quit in 1999. Didn't want to go back there with that kind of stuff hacking all the time. Just picked up my pipes about 5 months back so almost all of them were bought in the mid 1970's and a few in 1980. I have added a few very nice ones in the last month or two.
I will send you some pictures of some rattlers that will blow your mind, in email when I get a chance. One of them is 9'1" long and weighed 97 pounds, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
I think this spider may have got me on the air plane and I have no clue as to what kind, but if it was a really bad one other signs would have showed up by now.
Thanks everyone for your concern and well wishes and also the welcome back!
Skip
Hey Skip wondered when you would be back. sorry to hear about the bite much rather had it been a fish than a spider. Take care and know what you mean about tonight as I have a luxry bulls eye flake coins set out for midnight with a bottle of Die Krantz ruby red Port to ring in the New Year. Its crazy how us old geezers enjoy our pipes and port. Those VaPers are hard to beat.
Redman
That would be enough to make me move Bob. All of those critters and rattlers and I would not fare well in the same house. Deep snow, scorpions, black widows, dink crappies, and rattlers will make this ship sail to new waters.Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
Hey Ship your from Alabama. You are far enough south you aught to have water moccasins, copper heads, timber rattlers, black widows, brown recluses, gators and 10,000 other insects that bite or sting. I do and I keep my eyes moving all the time for them. Billy the Exterminator lives 15 mile straight east of me. And he get his share of wild thing that can hurt you. I will not move as they all make life intresting. BTW I do carry a 410 shotgun with me in the boat. Better to be safe than sorry.
Redman
Good to see you back from your trip, but I hate to hear about your bite. I had to have one lanced a couple of years ago under my wrist. I know them suckers are painful.
Ship,
I went to grad school in Alabama. Being from up North, I had my reservations about Alabama. Anyway, when I first drove into the state I stopped a a state welcome center. In a glass display was a stuffed rattler that had a head that was almost as big as my fist!!I thought "Is that just meant for Northerners?".
Oh yeah, and there was teh scorpion I found on the porch screen one day. I didn't say anything to my wife because I didn't want to scare her. A few years later, after we had moved, I told her and she told me that she had also found one!
Pete
P.S. BTW, after living in Alabama I think it is a great place!
we get some nasty critters up north here too!recluse spiders,copper heads,water moccasins,some kind of endangered rattlesnake even!
Doctor thinks I got bit a year ago and I ended up out of work for a week as I couldn't put my leg down. If you even think you've gotten bit get it checked. Hope you get the finger back working soon!!
Heck it's not really the finger, it's the knuckle on my hand that leads to that finger. Boy I tell you what too this darn thing has done some hurting too!
If it was not for anti-inflammatory meds it would be worse.
Skip
are rattlesnakes you're not very big. We get occasional 4 or five footers most of them are pretty small, but they are still deadly. I do not kill rattlesnakes enlist they get in my yard. They kill a lot of mice which are lousy around here so I'll either rattlesnakes alone if they are out in the fields most of the ranchers kill them, but I just keep a close eye in front of me in the summer months be looking forward to seeing in some of those pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
you just keep a close eye out for them ship it is part of living here and you get used to it . You folks back in that country have far more critters to worry about than I do. I definitely hate water moccasins is size seen them in New Jersey when I was at Fort Dix is we fish quite a bit around the Fort and it seems like every place I fish I would run into one of them in definitely rattlesnakes around the Fort also the one thing that I did enjoy back there was the fireflies. We do not have any in the West here.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41