One of the spiders then leapt at him as he was packing to go home and - as he tried to swipe it off - plunged its fangs into his leg.
"I managed to get home, but by the time I arrived my thigh had swollen to twice its normal size."
Ricki's wife Carrie, 36, watched horrified as her husband staggered through the door.She said: "He looked terrible.
"He was pale, sweating and his leg was killing him. Even our son’s Stanley, 11 and little Ricki, two, could tell something was wrong."
"The skin ruptured and pus oozed out. It was revolting – it smelt like someone had died."
Eventually Ricki was taken into theatre to have his leg 'scraped' and washed free of the sceptic pus.
It was a procedure he’d go on to have nine times in the following weeks.
His wife added: "Ricki’s leg was like a car crash.
"One afternoon about a week after he was in hospital, there was this awful smell.
"When I pulled back Ricki’s sheets his stitches has burst and brown pus was oozing down his thigh."
After his deadly encounter, Ricki said he feels lucky to still have his leg.
He said: "I can’t work, I’m living away from my family – and all because of a spider bite.
"I’m just lucky to still have my leg - but we won’t be going on holiday to the Canaries this year!"
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