- Woman woken at night by a bite on her thigh which left her in pain
- She later caught a spider she believes attacked her and killed it
- The bite later became swollen and was filled with a yellow pus
- She feared she’d lose her leg after pain failed to go away for a month
- Experts say she had a reaction to the venom or the bite became infected
Richard Spillett for MailOnline
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A mother-of-three feared she might lose a leg after being bitten by a spider which attacked her in bed.
Lisa Taylor, 35, woke up in agony after the creature bit her on the thigh while she was asleep at her home in Bestwood, Nottinghamshire.
She later caught the spider, which experts believe to be a ‘rabbit hutch’ spider, a species of the ‘false widow’ arachnids behind a rise in reported bites in Britain.
Lisa Taylor, pictured with friend Richard Papworth, was left in agony after being bitten by a false widow spider at her home in Nottinghamshire
The spider which bit Ms Taylor is one of three species called ‘false widows’, which are known to bite
Ms Taylor went to her GP after the attack on October 11 and was told the wound had become infected and caused her leg to swell to almost twice its normal size.
She said: ‘I could have lost a leg because I couldn’t walk on it and it swelled to a horrible size. it was petrifying thinking about it.
‘But at least it happened to me and not one of the kids, because the poison would have affected them even more, so I dread to think what would have happened to them. It’s just horrible.
‘I was asleep when it bit me. When I woke up there was a huge blister, and then I saw a spider hanging from the ceiling.
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