06-18-2009, 10:37 AM
Husband got up in the middle of the night Monday and suddenly his foot was burning along with intense itching. The next morning we could not find the "bite marks" and were unsure if it was a centipede or a spider. By the morning the foot and ankle were bright red and terribly, terribly swollen. We finally ended up taking him to the doctor on Tues. afternoon. He was given a tetanus shot (doc said that cetipedes are dirty little critters) and antibiotics. Doc said that if the foot was not getting better in 24 hours then he would have to be admitted to the hospital. We convinced ourselves that the foot was looking a little better on Wed. to avoid hospital(really it was not)but by this morning we could definitely see that the swelling had gone down some. We never found any centipedes or spiders (dead or alive)in the house. Scary stuff.