Quote Originally Posted by ray1970 View Post
A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.

When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.
A fellow soldier got bitten by one on the ass when we were going through field excercises in BNOC at Ft. Riley, KS. Poor guy didn't know what got him until the flesh started rotting. As I recall, they got him into the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, but since most treatments are ineffective, he still lost a sizable piece of his gluteus maximus and obviously had to be dropped from the course.