“This one kept swelling and swelling, and it was like, you know, a fire stir that's metal,” Miller told KAKE. Doctors discovered Miller was dealing with a severe blood clotting issue in her leg and determined she needed emergency surgery. But for Miller, surgery came with added fear because of her complicated medical history. “I'm terrified of surgery, that I'm going to go to sleep and not wake up, or that I'm going to bleed out,” Miller told the news station. Dr. Raymond Cloyd, a horticultural entomologist at Kansas State University, told KAKE that Kansas is home to many spider species, but only two are considered venomous: the black widow and brown recluse.