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02/07/2002 9:44 PM
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Dear CK: How I wish it had never left there to torment me. It causes such heavy calcification about the vertebrae that the spine beomes inflexible. I had one area collapse from injudicious lifting. The sharp edges of fragments injured nerves giving me loss of sensation in feet and lower legs, spasticity and loss of power in my thighs. Not much fun.
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#55443
02/07/2002 10:25 PM
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[Medical Post]
It suddenly occurred to me that the spider bite necrosis might be a form of autoimmune disease.
Accepted theory seems to involve the envenomation of collagenolytic proteases. The systemic pathology in some patients is suggestive of an immune component, and hence an element of auto~, but I don't know if it fits the technical definition. I'll ask around.
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#55444
02/07/2002 11:29 PM
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I've read that if you have spiders you don't have cockroaches. Now if only I could remember where I'd give you a trail to follow.
Well, I know for sure that they eat flys and as such are one of my favorite pets. I make sure I always have spiders in the house. One moving day, when I saw no spiders in the appartment I was moving to, I snagged several from my old appartment and brought them along.
Mind you I always have to keep an eye out because both my hubby and son are afraid of spiders. Before they see an exposed spider I have to quickly grab it up and sneak it to an other part of the house. Shhhh don't tell em.
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#55445
02/07/2002 11:36 PM
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we have redbacks and whitetails to deal with - that's what Oz gives us!
(Takes a bow) Glad to be of assistance!
Hev
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#55446
02/07/2002 11:45 PM
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I've read that if you have spiders you don't have cockroaches
Oh my, what a dilemma ... how to choose?
Hev
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#55447
02/08/2002 1:31 AM
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I have seen cockroaches over three inches long, that no spider could nandle. I have never seen a cockroach fly to get into web. I don't remember seeing wings on them.
PS Quick check on Internet says they do have wings.
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#55448
02/08/2002 1:59 AM
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Some cockroaches have wings, no buffaloes do. Hi, Angel. As some may recall, when I lived in Mexico I had cockroaches. Everyone has them, pretnear. I also had spiders. That kind of answers that question. In Mexico, cockroaches and spiders learn to get along. Now centipedes, that's a whole 'nother story. I got bit by one that was about six inches long and as wide as my thumb. That sucker hurt worse than the scorpion that bit me. 
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#55449
02/08/2002 4:02 AM
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that's a whole 'nother story No, don't you remember, Connie....the "a" from another is already there before the whole so the apostrophe doesn't have to be, or sumptin' like that!  ha! YARTing myself! I'll just put up the thread url if anyone wants to pursue this further...so there!
Welp, there goes another royalty to tswumI love spiders...they fascinate me, I can stand and watch a spider working on its web for hours. Tarantulas in glass cages are cool too. In glass cages being the key. I love spiders, but I just don't want 'em on me!...that's all.
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#55450
02/08/2002 10:51 PM
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<<Besides, didn't your Granny ever tell you that killing a spider changes the weather?>>
Granny didn't admit to the existence of spiders in her orderly world. Mom, however, said: "ya skeesh a spider, we gits rain." I think she said it that way because she was quoting a Pogo character. We wuz deep south, but not That deep south!
Mom once showed me a mother wolf spider and gently flicked all the babies off the spider's back with a pencil tip. The babies scattered about the room, and the mother spider went under the sofa. After a while, she came out and gathered up all the wee ones. - It was a rather touching scene; but for pure sentiment and communion, one would have to take Walter Anderson and the cockroach.
Tsyganka, who admits to teasing with the last sentence
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#55451
02/09/2002 2:49 AM
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Oy, but I forgot you had such big cockroaches in other parts of the world. I am sure that makes a difference. We have teeny cockroaches by comparison - average 3/4 inch & smaller in Montréal. Oddly, they are not the blight you hear about in other countries (maybe it's our spiders  ) I think it has to do with the cold. Not a big skier your average cockroach. Mostly just freezes up & dies. Not like flies or spiders that freeze solid and just thaw out like nothing happened in the springtime.
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#55452
02/09/2002 3:19 AM
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Oy, but I ... "Oy"? bel, you're my kinda gal!
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#55453
02/09/2002 3:26 AM
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I keep tryin to tell you folks, Buffaloes don't have wings, chickens do! [mock annoyed-e]
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#55454
02/09/2002 3:34 AM
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Buffaloes don't have wings, chickens do!
As angels do. Especially baby-grandchilden angels.
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