Black widow - what to do?

[Ellenantula]

Dang.. and now look at you, on a forum about loving spiders Did you end up going to the hospital, or did you just let it go away? I was reading in a book I got recently that their venom induces sort of a mental fear too, even a obsession In some people, about the "I'm gonna die" thing.

No, just took Tylenol and Flexeril at home. Figured it had been so many hours since the bite, there wasn't anything hospital could do for me but symptom control.
I assume my thought processes were normal - my initial fear was based on the false belief that all black widow bites were lethal. I mean, that's what I'd always heard. Once I read up on them, I realized I should recover fine.

 

[RTTB]

I eliminate Black Widows in/near my home. With elderly parents and young children, I am not going to take the chance or risk.