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April 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Catherine Coombs was bitten on the back of her hand
- Toxic venom caused flesh to rot and began spreading through her body
- Surgeons operated three times to save her hand
By
Luke Salkeld
10:08 EST, 17 April 2012
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18:32 EST, 17 April 2012
For anyone with a fear of spiders, having one crawl into your bed and bite you is truly the stuff of nightmares.
But for Catherine Coombs, the nightmare is still continuing almost two months later, as a bite – believed to have been from the UK’s most venomous species of spider – nearly caused her to lose her left hand.
The 48-year-old woke up in excruciating pain one night in February, and her hand began to swell dramatically.
Recovering: Catherine Coombs woke up in excruciating pain when she rolled over and was bitten by the false widow on the back of the left hand
Deadly bite: Catherine Coombs from near Poole, Dorset, spent six weeks in hospital recovering from the venomous bite of the false widow
She was taken to hospital, where
surgeons operated on her three times to remove the poison and decaying
flesh and to try to prevent the venom from spreading up her arm.
At one point her condition was so bad doctors feared they would have to amputate her hand.
Her body temperature plummeted as the
skin infection cellulitis set in and an inflamed patch on one of her
legs even sparked concerns it had spread via her bloodstream.
Mrs Coombs has spent six weeks in
hospital and is now at home waiting for the infection to leave her body
before she can have her tendons, which were left paralysed, rebuilt.
From the nature of the marks on her
hand and her symptoms, doctors believe the culprit is likely to have
been a noble false widow spider, named after its similarity in
appearance to the black widow spider.
Mrs Coombs, a former medical photographer who lives near Poole, Dorset, said: ‘I have been terrified of spiders all my life.
Race against the clock: Surgeons operated on her three times to remove the poison and decaying flesh to prevent the venom from spreading up her arm
‘People tell you it’s such a silly phobia and they can’t hurt you, but now I know that they can.’
She added: ‘For a while the doctors
were worried that I may even lose the hand completely and I had to sign
for amputation every time I went under anaesthetic.
‘Every time the surgeons operated they
found more and more decay. They just kept taking away the dead flesh.
Every time I woke up I made sure my hand was still there.’
She
continued: ‘For the first week I felt very poorly and had a very high
temperature and felt like I had a really bad case of the flu.
‘The pain in my hand was so awful and they operated three times in seven or eight days.
‘At the moment it feels like it’s never going to end.
‘I think I would have died if it had
gone untreated. Cellulitis when it gets going can be nasty and there was
no question of not treating it.’
She said of finding out a spider was
to blame for her suffering: ‘I couldn’t believe it until I looked it up
on the internet. I just thought, “This is England for goodness’ sake”.’
She now wants others to be on guard, saying: ‘Little boys out playing would pick a spider up.
‘Or they could fall on babies in prams. In the old days you used to put nets over prams, but you rarely see them now.’
Noble false widow spiders are about the size of a 50p piece but have the most venomous bite of any spider in the UK.
They tend to be found more commonly in
southern England but it is thought they are now spreading further
across the country due to climate change.
For the most part, they bite only when
provoked, and Mrs Coombs believes she may have caused the one that
attacked her to bite after rolling on to it as she slept.
In February, father-of-one Chris
Galton, 31, collapsed after being bitten ten times by a false widow
spider on the back and neck in Southampton.
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KILL THE *******, YEAH! There was a spider in my bathroom once, I went to go and get something to catch it in and was only about 30 seconds but the little **** had somehow moved above the door, not that I noticed until it landed on my head. It was definitely the same spider. I think the little ******** are up to something, they know what they’re doing! Next time I see one it’s going to DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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A few years ago while tidying my garden a spider bit me on my lower arm.
Now while I dont like spiders, I wont kill them but catch them and put them out.
But the following day when I really felt like I wanted to cut my own arm off because the swelling and pain was driving me crazy and I had to endure a rather painful injection, I could have at that point gleefully killed every spider I further encountered no matter how innocuous they were.
I still have the tiny bite scar and feel lucky that it wasnt as bad as this ladies experience
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Star, uk. – I did the exact same thing and am now freaking out!!
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RE: “We had one of these in the garden before – never seeing it before, my mum called me to look at it. I thought it was pretty odd looking – and then my mum threw a brick on it just in case (we had huntsman spider in our kitchen before so know exotic spiders can come in from fruit etc)…now I know what they are…I’m glad she did!!- Carrie, Essex, 17/04/2012 22:26”
Thanks for that, Carrie, I nearly died laughing at your great story! Its all I need to know after reading this article – find myself a brick!!!
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She has a nice kindly face. Glad she didn’t lose her hand.
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Jack said “to the people suggesting we don’t kill these things, consider this – this spider does not have compassion or reasoning abilities”
Seems to me people wanting to kill spiders don’t have a lot of compassion or reasoning abilities either. Don’t get hysterical!
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to the people suggesting we don’t kill these things, consider this – this spider does not have compassion or reasoning abilities. this thing will obviously bite and harm whatever comes in it’s way. what if that is somebody’s child? or face? kill these things, don’t put them back outside…
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IF THEY ARE IN THEIR DOMAIN, I LEAVE THEM ALONE.
BUT IF THEY ENTER MY DOMAIN I PUT MY FOOT ON THEM, OR USE A ROLLED UP NEWS PAPER WITH OUT HESITATION.
REGARDS …………… WASP
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I saw something similar on my bedroom windowsill recently. Thank goodness I dont usually open the window!!!!
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This article is a bit over the top. I have picked up these spiders frequently and never been bitten. Yes they CAN cause a problem but then so can a wasp or bee sting to sensitive people. Please don’t exaggerate the danger from these tiny creatures. They are far more scared of you than you are of them believe me and you are far more danger to them. Please don’t destroy these creatures just because of ignorant hysterical articles like this one. Most people bitten by this spider would have a small painful mark much like a bee or wasp sting. Are we becoming a nation of total wimps???
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