Tacoma man faces amputation after mysterious spider bite [View all]

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Imagine getting bit by a spider, ending up in the hospital, and doctors tell you they have to amputate your toes and possibly your feet. That’s what a Tacoma man is going through.

“I just can’t believe that I can have this extensive of medical issues with basically a spider bite,” Jesse Elting told KIRO 7.

Elting is a contractor. On June 1, he was at a customer’s house providing an estimate on a deck when a spider bit him.

After several tests, Jesse says doctors have told him it might have been a brown-recluse spider, although that species is not native to Washington. According to the State Department of Health, the two most venomous arachnids found in our state are black widows and yellow sac spiders.

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