Health

and he had the worst headache, a fever and vomiting. He didn't think it was from a spider bite until he went to the hospital and he put two and two together (he brushed away cobwebs in the back yard by his wood pile). The strange thing is that he got all the same symptoms again two weeks later. He told me that if he had a gun he would have shot himself he was in so much pain. Another friend was bitten by a black widow (hiding in her shoe).

On the local news I heard that an exchange student who was visiting CA from Sweden was bitten by a rattle snake and he had to get venom shots. The bill was over $250,000. He couldn't believe it since Sweden doesn't make you pay for this. Fortunately he bought extra traveler's insur before he came here and was covered.