My Biggest Fear

Last June I was sleeping and I suddenly woke up to a terrible pain in my leg. I thought maybe I was just dreaming, so I went back to bed.

I woke up the next day feeling under the weather, and had a huge welt on my leg. As the week continued I continued not feeling well at all, so I went to the doctor. His diagnosis was that I was poisoned by venom. I was totally bothered by that. To make things worse he gave me referral to a Lyme disease specialist in Seattle in case my health did not improved. Luckily my health did improve but I was left with a terrible fear of spiders.

From then on I always had my brothers or a friend kill a spider for me. One morning I faced a spider crawling in the area where I was straightening my hair. I was left to defend myself because my brothers where at school. My nearest weapon I had to my use was my 285*F hair straightener. I took my hair straightener and compressed the spider in between the sides of it. That little rascal went into the little spider ball and stopped moving. I felt victorious.

Later that evening I had my two best friends, Caitlin and Erin, come over for a girls night. Erin usually knows what's best for me, and knew I needed help over coming my fear of spiders. She offered encouraging words to me, and gave me a Kleenex to pick up the spider. Too bad that little bastard came back to life when I touched him and he started running across the floor. By that time I was standing on my bed screaming and crying, and Erin, the hero she is, killed that spider for me.

To this day I am terrified of spiders. This is why I show you this picture of the cup that says "Can someone braver then me please kill the spider?" Luckily I have great brothers who took care of that for me when they saw trap the next day.