# Bubonic Plague? Again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860 "2023-09-10T02:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/21 "2023-09-11T00:52:54Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > It might be a spider bite. Don’t Google “spider bite” if you don’t like spiders. Not to hijack, but as an entomologist I can tell you that it is almost NEVER a spider bite. Spiders don’t routinely bite people (most can’t break the skin and if they can, its rarely more than a pinprick). There are very few dangerous spiders in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/22 "2023-09-11T00:55:55Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > as an entomologist I can tell you that it is almost NEVER a spider bite. As a physician, I strongly concur with this. Most things that are called ‘spider bites’ by patients in the US and Canada turn out to be staph aureus skin infections, often of the MRSA strain. Otherwise, the thread title had me singing “Having my bubo!” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/23 "2023-09-11T00:58:54Z")
We spent about 3 minutes on _spider bite_ I think I remember reading it here on the Dope that it was rarely a spider bite. And, where it is located on her butt sorts rules it out. As she’s fond of wearing pants that are snug. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/24 "2023-09-11T02:36:50Z")
On the way to the ER. Not me. But I’ve sent mid-dau to take her. She called the nurse line. They told her go tonight. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/25 "2023-09-11T02:41:21Z")
That’s good. Infections can get out of hand quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/26 "2023-09-11T03:35:24Z")
She’s being seen. Mid-dau reports they’re draining the abscess. The doc said it was fixin’ to explode on its own. I’m waiting for more info. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/27 "2023-09-11T12:47:27Z")
I’m glad they’re getting to it. Septicemia isn’t anything to take lightly. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/28 "2023-09-11T14:57:24Z")
When The Daughter was finished with high school, she was invited to participate in a local production of “Grease.” The beginning of the production consisted of many meetings, where the kids sat cross-legged on the floor, listening to lectures of dos and don’ts, expectations, and divisions of duties. She would come home at night, practically limping, because all that sitting on a hard floor just kills your butt! She honestly thought she had bruised her tailbone, and went to Urgent Care. Urgent doc found nothing wrong with her tailbone, and gave her a Rx for pain. A few days later, the reason for the pain appeared: she had a crop of abscesses on that poor tailbone. She saw our family doc who said she wasn’t touching it. Sent her home with a Rx for whiz-bang-pow antibiotic and said it would pop and drain on its own. Boy howdy, it did! The Daughter said she was asleep at night when the abscess erupted. The SMELL woke her from sound sleep, and it was nastiness. It drained for a few days, and then she was better than new. She finished the antibiotic, and the bad guys lost. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/29 "2023-09-11T16:47:12Z")
Ivy and mid-Daughter got home about 11:30 last night. Ivy was shot up with drugs. Antibiotics and no telling what else. We got her to bed. Mid-dau said the doc said it was a simple but large abscess that drained well. She should see her own doctor this week for followup. Son-of-a-wrek drove me to dialysis and Ivy was still sleeping when I left. And…corn dogs will be eaten after dialysis. God, I hope I can quit thinking about Big bubonic butt boo-boos long enough to eat.🫣 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/30 "2023-09-11T20:43:07Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > As a physician, I strongly concur with this As an ER nurse, I strongly concur with this. Also, no, not ‘again’, Yersinia pestis never went away. Although you’re east of the rockies, aren’t you Beck? I don’t think it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/31 "2023-09-11T20:49:38Z")
Yes, east of. But, I’m never surprised what pestilence might show up here. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/32 "2023-09-11T21:23:02Z")
Well, butt abscesses are probably pestilence from your butt hole. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/33 "2023-09-11T21:25:06Z")
She still sez “It’s not my BUTT!!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/34 "2023-09-12T18:13:23Z")
Pics or it didn’t happen. Can I _really_ be the first person to post that here? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/35 "2023-09-12T18:25:08Z")
I was waiting on that. I tried to get her to let me take a picture. But she refused. Ummm? Cause it’s her BUTT?!? ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/36 "2023-09-12T18:29:45Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > … Big bubonic butt boo-boos long enough to eat.🫣 Sorry, but for a moment I parsed this in a way that you didn’t intend. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/37 "2023-09-13T00:02:54Z")
And the germ in the flea and the flea on the rat and the rat near the man, and the buboes grew all around and around and the buboes grew all around. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860/38 "2023-09-13T00:08:32Z")
Update: Ivy’s blood work today shows no plague germs. Doc said it would heal fine. Now she can get my snack tonight.😊 The grandwrex ask could they see it at dinnertime(gah, I don’t need to think about that) She said “No” they asked why. She said “cause it’s on my Bu…backside” Yep. I smiled like the Cheshire cat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubonic-plague-again/989860.md?page=1)