Lake Byron social Club to hols annual breakfast benefit
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Mark your calendar for the Lake Byron Social Club’s annual breakfast Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. at Gross Hill Barn. A freewill offering for the meal will be split between Mike Ball and Kevin Schiele to help defray medical expenses.
Those who would like to help but can’t make it to the breakfast can send donations to Gross Hill, 40426 N. Shore Rd., Huron, S.D. 57350.
Schiele has endured almost a year of agony and the loss of his right leg just below the knee, after he was bitten by a brown recluse spider at his niece’s wedding in Minot, N.D. It was July 29.
The brown recluse spider, which is native to the southern United States, releases a venom that destroys living tissue.
“That’s the second time I’ve been bitten,” Schiele said. “I got bitten three years prior to this in South Dakota and lost my big toe.
“I didn’t think it could happen again,” he added.
Following the wedding, Schiele said he went back to work and showed his foot to his boss. By then, the area around the spider bite was turning black.
“My boss told me to go to the doctor and I was sent to Sioux Falls immediately,” he said. “Good thing, it could have killed me. It was moving rapidly.”
Both bites were on his right foot, but the second bite caused the most severe damage.