[backhoe]

She was bitten on the left foot, during the Atlanta Gift Market, and by the time we got home- a six hour drive- well, as I mentioned, the only sicker people I've seen ended up dying. The racking abdominal cramps were perhaps the worst symptom... that, and an area the size of your palm turned necrotic ( bulls'-eye excoriation ) and fell off her foot...

[windchime]

That's awful! The spider may have been in items that had been stored for the Market. They do indeed have a powerful poison!