Edit: Inadvertently cut 1st three sentences(frikkin Android browser) and neglected to post my citation at the end.

On a normal Wednesday afternoon I noted two egg-yolk sized lumps on my calves that itched like mosquito bites, yet were squishier but I didn't put much thought into that facet initially. With all the wet weather here in Phoenix the last few weeks the skeeters are back with a vengeance, I figured it/they hit pay-dirt while I was sleeping. That night I woke up repeatedly with extreme chills and cold sweats, but did not make any connection to the lumps. Went to work the next day extremely exhausted.

We got the job done, ran a 2nd call and I went home and passed out around 4pm. At 9pm I started awake w/ massive headache, extreme nausea & all my joints/spine were pins & needles of pain. I 'emergency walked'[0] to the toilet for extreme anterior & posterior purges and passed out after the spasms desisted.

Called in sick the next day(Friday) & dozed on couch through unceasing headache, GI purges and joint pains... intense pain, but still flu-like symptoms 40 hours later. Sometime after dark that night I woke up to all my muscles in my body experiencing the intense pain of the worst muscle cramps I could previously imagine, yet without the contracting of muscle tissues. The only exception was my calves & feet, they may have been numb but I only know with certainty I did not hurt below the knees. Cannot say how many hours this went on before I lost consciousness but it felt like an eternity. I do not believe I was paralyzed while awake, but I was hyper-focused on mellowing my thoughts/heartrate, and most importantly not amplifying the agony by moving anything. I honestly never even thought to call for assistance, I still didn't know what was happening, only that it was already in play and while my chest felt like I was having an infarction, so did every other part of my body... except below the knees.

Next morning my muscles felt like I ran several marathons(except my legs, lol), the nausea was replaced with what felt like knives passing through my intestines and my diaphragm and peritoneum felt like they were going to tear apart(didn't purge that for several days, my GI tract shut down & I could only hold down liquids). Joints and old injury sites continued to ache throughout Sunday, but the spinal burn, needling pains & headache had subsided in time for my 16 hour, uninterrupted sleep Saturday night.

Sunday was spent feeling completely shattered and aching but without acute pain at long last. Layed on couch all day.

Went to work Monday and all the pain my calves did not experience finally arrived. Ankles swelled and bolts of pain shot through both calves with each step(much more so in the right leg) until 3pm when I told the boss I couldn't go on. If you've ever walked long distance on concrete with bad shoes, that's the stabbing pain my calves were experiencing.

That day, Monday, I noticed my right calf lump had a small, open sore and was oozing. The left calf lump was smaller, had a red spot that never completely opened up, didn't ooze as much and not until nearly a week later...presumably the 2nd bite with no/less venom delivered.

Took rest of week off as my ankles & scrotum swelled/retained fluid whenever I wasn't laying down. Three weeks later & I am 99%, I do still experience a couple genuine, but mild, muscle cramps a day. Never went to doctor, but did speak to several friends/family who are in medical on Tuesday and determined if it were a desert recluse I would have already been in the ICU or dead...I kept up the Zika-Swine-Avian-Ebola flu story to that point as I was still unsure what happened and wanted to spare family & friends undue stress.

[0] Emergency-walk
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Emergency%20w...

[1]21 days later: right-leg bite site
http://imgur.com/2JjBCIm