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Back in 2011 I was in my 4th or so year in keeping tarantulas. I started off with new world's, ventured into old world burrowers, and finally made my way to pokies. Around 2012, it became the worse year for me as a T keeper. First I had an OBT escape and disappear for 2 days, luckily found alive when she started across the kitchen floor (my daughter was a toddler at the time and had to stay with my in-laws until the OBT was found). I had a scary close call with a H.albostriatum , and then the big one happened. One day I was trying to turn my P.rufilata water dish over ( to this day I think she planned it),when all of a sudden she warped from around her cork bark hide, ran up the tongs and nailed me on my middle knuckle of my right hand. After the bite, the intense hellish pain for hours on end it seemed, I decided maybe old world's weren't meant for me. So sadly I gave them all to my friend who got me into the hobby in the first place. Now here we are 2019, I still have my new world's, but I got the itch to get back to old worlds again. Problem is, I think I have PTSD when it comes to the idea of their painful bites. Has anyone ever had a similar experience, a bad bite that made you....well "gun shy" with certain genus? If so, did you ever get past it?