A Brown Recluse bite of pain

Warning: Some of the contents of this post are rather graphic, please take that into consideration prior to reading this post.

Last week, sometime over fall break, I look at my waist to see a small bump of some sort. Nothing unusual, just something that I always see. So of course my natural expectation is that it will go away soon, no problem....

Well it wasn't quite that simple. On Thursday, I had noticed this "bump" had grown rather extensively in size, and was now rather sore. On Friday I went to the free Student Health Clinic on the Univ. of Memphis campus, where my bump was looked at by a nurse and was diagnosed as "some sort of infection" and I was prescibed for some antibiotic medicine.

Over the weekend was when this bump became most painful. It was nearly impossible to sleep at night, and I was forced to wear the loosest pairs of pants I own. On Monday, I went back to the clinic, as requested of me, and was asked to come back again Tuesday to see the doctor to "have it opened up and drained." I returned this morning, right after my Business Finance exam, at which the doctor examined it and said that it was too dry to drain, and he diagnosed it as "probably a brown recluse bite." He gave me a new prescription (a much stronger one), and asked me to stop taking my current one. I was also asked to return Thursday for further evaluation.

So here I lie this Tuesday evening, my brown recluse bite not being quite so painful anymore, but more itchy, as the skin is more-or-less dry and tender at this point, as it will stay for about the next month or so. Yall please pray for me. God bless.