Spider bite at a Florida AirBnB apartment leaves workman with a giant hole in his leg

A spider bite at a Florida AirBnB apartment left a workman with a giant hole in his leg and forced him to quit work due to months of agonizing pain. 

The outraged customer Chad Jones, 33, was forced to set up a GoFundMe page after being bitten by the spider, with zero support offered by the accommodation site.

Jones was working in a box warehouse and staying in an Airbnb between apartments.

Pictured: The gruesome spider bite on Chad’s leg after it was wrapped in bandages by doctors in Florida

Pictured: Chad Jones, 33, who lost his job due to an excruciating spider bite, which made him unable to work and left him in agony in Florida

Pictured: Chad Jones, 33, who lost his job due to an excruciating spider bite, which made him unable to work and left him in agony in Florida 

Pictured: The abcess that developed after Chad was bitten by what he thinks is a brown recluse spider (left) and the hole left in his leg after it was treated by doctors in Florida

Pictured: The abcess that developed after Chad was bitten by what he thinks is a brown recluse spider (left) and the hole left in his leg after it was treated by doctors in Florida

Pictured: The abcess that developed after Chad was bitten by what he thinks is a brown recluse spider (left) and the hole left in his leg after it was treated by doctors in Florida 

‘I remember sitting there Sunday night watching TV,’ Chad told us.

‘I was getting ready to go to bed because I had to go to work in the morning, then I felt something prick my leg.

‘I didn’t think anything of it.’

Chad woke up in minor discomfort and assumed the small lump on his leg was an ingrown hair.

After starting work in the warehouse as usual at 7am, his pain grew, until a couple of hours later.

‘By which time my leg had swollen up to twice its normal size I couldn’t walk anymore either, there was pain shooting up the right side of my body, and my leg was super-hot to the touch.’

Chad is pictured taking a selfie after admitting himself to a Florida hospital to get treatment for his infected leg

Chad is pictured taking a selfie after admitting himself to a Florida hospital to get treatment for his infected leg 

Pictured: After the treatment from a Florida doctor, Chad was required to clean his own leg of dead muscle tissue and pus on a daily basis

Pictured: After the treatment from a Florida doctor, Chad was required to clean his own leg of dead muscle tissue and pus on a daily basis

And Chad’s condition was set to deteriorate further.

‘I went to my doctor they took some swabs and gave me antibiotics and pain medicine since I didn’t see what bit me nobody really knows what it was.

‘By this time it was purple and nasty looking and even more painful.

‘The pain pills they gave me weren’t even helping so I went back to the doctor

‘He referred me to a specialist, and when I finally get to the specialist they took one look at my bite and immediately said I needed surgery.’

It was clearly a spider bite, and that wasn’t the end of the story.

‘They cut a decent size hole in the side of my leg to get all the dead tissue and muscle out,’ remembers Chad. 

‘Then, instead of stitching it up, I had to pack it myself every day.

Pictured: The spider bite as the venom took effect and ballooned Chad's leg to twice its normal size at the Airbnb in Florida

Pictured: The spider bite as the venom took effect and ballooned Chad’s leg to twice its normal size at the Airbnb in Florida 

‘I had to clean the hole in my leg then get some clean gauze and stuff it in there. It was some of the nastiest most painful stuff I have had to do ever.’

Chad returned to work a few months later, but standing for extended periods was intolerably painful.

‘Once I started getting back into a regular routine, I reached out to Airbnb to let them know what happened and see I maybe they could help with my medical bills, and help me get back some of the thousands of dollars I had spent on getting healthy.

‘After about a month of arguing back and forth, they finally told me that since I cannot prove that it happened there, they won’t help, even though I have the timeline from my doctors and pictures.’

Worse still, the cause of the bite, a brown recluse spider, was admitted by the homeowner.

‘The Airbnb I was staying at had a compost garden in the back and, the owner even said he has seen brown recluse spiders back there.

Pictured: Chad's infected leg (right) can be seen clearly larger than his left, unbitten leg, at the Airbnb in Florida

Pictured: Chad’s infected leg (right) can be seen clearly larger than his left, unbitten leg, at the Airbnb in Florida 

‘Airbnb made me go get doctors notes and all my hospital records, only to tell me that I didn’t report it within 24 hours of it happening so they were not going to help me out.’

Reporting the bite in that short a timeframe was impossible for Chad.

‘I tried to explain like within that 24 hours I was scared and in so much pain I couldn’t even think.

Pictured: The spider bite looks like its healing after Chad was bitten at an AirBnB in Florida

Pictured: The spider bite looks like its healing after Chad was bitten at an AirBnB in Florida 

‘I set up my GoFundMe page to help pay back my parents and all the hospital bills that had piled up.’ 

Chad’s GoFundMe page contains graphic photos of his wound. 

Finally, Chad is keen to emphasise he isn’t fundraising for an easy life and that he’s a hard worker. 

‘I felt worthless not being able to help myself,’ he said. 

‘I don’t wish it on anybody.’

 

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