we seem them all the TIME!!!
The shitty thing about this guy doing it himself...the tweezers and cutting tools he used to I&D it(incision and drain) his abcesss...they arnt sterile. so after draining it and NOT packing it with sterile packing, its going to fill up with purulent fluid(puss and blood) and come back again just as bad or worse.
PS....EVERYONE ALLWAYS assumes they are spider bites simply because they dont know the exact origin on the abscess. Most of the time, like Tim said, its an ingrown hair that gets infected..and that compounded with Dirty houses, dirty furniture, poor living conditions, not showering on a daily basis, sedimentary lifestyle(sitting on your ass alot Due to being lazy, pregnate, or yourjob) = bad abcess.
Its a growing problem where i work(inner city columbus), sometimes low income families who live in dirty houses will get them..mom, dad and their 53984kids. its only untill they move or do some serious cleaning and replace their 20year old couch do they stop getting them
(By no means am i saying that tim, his family or his house is dirty...what im referring to is the inner city population who are commonly seen downtown)
Over the past 3-4years Childrens hospital has seen something like a 3fold increase of kids with abscesses.