Atlanta mother suffers blistering and ‘burning’ skin after being attacked by horde of poisonous spiders

An Atlanta mother’s cleaning day turned into a true horror movie when she was attacked by a swarm of poisonous spiders and suffered serious injuries.

Jessica Rogue, 44, a mother of three, was hospitalized with swollen and burning skin after she was bitten on the face by brown recluse spiders while cleaning out a shed in her home on July 1. Jessica told AtlantaNewsFirst how she was trying to unravel a tangled web when the creepy crawlies launched their attack.

Within hours of the bites, she found herself in the emergency room. Her face, arms and neck were grotesquely swollen. Jessica suffered permanent scarring, skin irritation and an affected eye from the venomous bites and had to spend several days in the hospital.

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“My eye is what I’m really worried about. My eye hurts a lot. I just don’t know what’s going to happen to my eye,” Jessica told the news channel.

A GoFundMe page set up for Jessica’s medical expenses has raised $2,360. The campaign’s creator, Morgan Underwood, explained what happened: “Jessica was tending to her own garden and some stupid recluse spiders got her. RIGHT IN THE FACE! … She has numbness and loss of movement in her hands and feet (not sure yet if this is temporary or permanent) and her skin is burning.”

In an update on Jessica’s condition following her release from hospital, Morgan wrote: “The swelling in her face has gone down a lot. It is now covered in an itchy, painful rash. Her arms, neck and chest are also covered in an itchy, painful rash and the areas where she was bitten are blistered so we are keeping an eye on that. Her right eye is giving her problems so she may need to see a specialist soon to get that checked out.”

They added: “She will also need to call a pest control company to deal with the spider infestation.”

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Morgan also explained that the swelling on Jessica’s lip was due to a “lymphoma/tumor that is not cancerous and a broken piece of tooth that is stuck in her upper lip. This is from an accident she had years ago when she was hit by a truck while riding her bike.”

Morgan mentioned that Jessica’s insurance doesn’t cover the removal of the lymphoma because it’s a cosmetic procedure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that brown recluse spiders usually stay hidden in protected areas. Their venomous bites kill tissue and result in large wounds that often require medical attention.