if you get bit by a venomous snake it's probably 50/50 you were either drunk off your ass or acting dumb as hell. out in Western N the booze is known to flow from time to time and you can always count on a snake bite or 2 coming out of the woodworks.
it’s actually relatively common here in Florida with all the new developments and how docile Pygmy rattlers are. They like to hide under mulch and plants. Go to pull a weed and snake bite. Then you have cotton mouths around all the retention ponds. We have 3 or 4 in our neighborhood in the last couple Of years.
A copperhead got me in my front yard in October 2016 taking the recycling out. Just wasn’t paying attention.
What was that like? I mean we’ve got a whole thread partially driven by the fear of getting hit, you might as well share a first hand account
I believe LetItSoak is an FSU fan. Assuming Florida, looks like the exotic Florida Brownsnake https://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/snakes/floridabrownsnake.shtml
Long story in spoiler. Spoiler: Snek story I had just returned from a run around dusk, like 7 or so on a Tuesday. We were supposed to have cheese stuffed meatballs for dinner that night, which was pretty exciting. Changed into my flip flops for whatever reason and took the recycling and trash out via the walkway leading from my front porch to the driveway. There was a tall gas light surrounded by a bush at the corner of the walkway and driveway. On my way back in I passed by the light/bush on my left and felt a jolt in my left foot - I knew immediately I was bitten by a snake and immediately after that I knew it was venomous. The pain was indescribable. I hobbled one legged up the steps to open the door and yelled for my wife to get our daughter, who turned 3 a couple days earlier, out of bed and get me to the hospital because I was bitten by a snake. As we passed by the same area to the car, the snake was still there and we noted it was definitely a copperhead and a baby copperhead at that. I recall that I didn’t appreciate that a baby copperhead did this to me. I was also perturbed on account of not being able to eat meatballs that night, which I can’t stress enough how very much I was looking forward to doing. It was still coiled up in the same spot under the bush at the light. I was in too much pain to kill it and my wife was carrying our daughter. My foot and leg swelled up like you wouldn’t believe and every slight movement or anything that caused blood to rush into my leg was excruciating. long story short (too late!) - stayed overnight in the hospital so they could keep an eye on the swelling. Docs were adamant that I did not want the anti-venom for a couple of reasons - cost (like $15k-$20k a pop or something similarly outrageous) and I would likely ultimately be sicker for longer with serum sickness. They said they obviously wouldn’t let me die and would give me anti venom if it came down to it, but that was a drastic and worst case scenario. All i could do was manage the pain and they gave me a dilauded drip so needless to say I don’t recall really the remainder of my time until discharge the next day. Ended up being unable to go into the office for a couple of days due to the pain. Which was unfortunate because I started the job at my big boy firm the month before. My family just moved to our house like 2 weeks before. I had to remain horizontal with my leg raised until pretty much that Saturday because bringing my left leg below my heart caused blood to rush into the leg and foot and it felt like being stuck with a billion hot pokers. My first return to work in the form of putting a suit on and getting out of the house, I decide it would be a good idea to attend a mediation out of town in SC. I still couldn’t get a shoe over my swollen left foot like 10 days later. I ended up having to wear a bedroom slipper to the mediation. But I healed up after that. Found out soon thereafter that copperheads were fairly common in that little neighborhood due to condo development (yay progress!) around the nearby creek. We weren’t out in the country by any means; we were very much in an in-town neighborhood less than 10 minutes from downtown Charlotte. I spent the rest of our time at that house, a little under 3 more years, absolutely terrified out of my mind that my little girl was going to get bitten and have to go through that. My sweet black and tan bloodhound Otis actually did get bit in the backyard an about 18 months later, although he handled it better than I did. I don’t really think about it much anymore, although I am admittedly more observant and careful when walking around certain areas certain times of the year. /csb
Also now that I think about it some more, I definitely experience a very strange visceral sensation/reaction in my body whenever I see a copperhead. Which is actually a fairly regular occurrence due to how often we have visited the local nature museum over the years.
You know I actually did. Apparently I was pretty vocal about the meatballs at the hospital and a family friend got some for me after I was discharged.
Did your wife make you cheese filled meatballs when you got home from the hospital for the next dinner?
Feel your pain. I too came home last night expecting my wife’s pesto pasta dish, but got a bowl of cereal instead bc my kids wanted Chick Fil A.
To his credit, he at least seemed to know what to do or he'd be dead with that happening in India. If that spread he'd need to be on a ventilator and who knows if that shitty clinic even had 1. He seems really pissed and embarrassed about it so hopefully changes his ways a bit.
more anti-venom yeah but did you see that shitty clinic. Most venomous handlers(the ones I follow at least) have access to anti-venom Hopefully Chandler gave them some sort of donation
Indian doctors are good with cobra bites. I think The issue is the majority of people bitten are in very rural areas and can't get to a hospital quick enough.
Then stuff like this happens too where all just comes down to luck https://youtube.com/shorts/NLF2MSxjCZQ?feature=share
3 people I follow on social media have done the India trip in last couple months. Chandler got bit, guy named Ricky Mack got radiation poisoning, and therealtarzann fucked up doing a snake milking and should have got bit. The guy filming the Chandler video does snake relocations for a living. Craziest shit I've seen is the guys who do that for African snakes.
he does way way crazier shit. Go watch how he got bit by a crocodile, that was some of the dumbest shit I've seen. This was mostly just him caught slipping on something he's done thousands of times.
they went to get a cobra at some power plant dude is also like mid-20s and been bitten by 10 Australian venomous including a taipan I have a weird fascination with these crazy people.
so copperhead bites are generally not treated with anti venom? very interesting, I work in health care and a rattlesnake bite gets anti-venom 100% of the time in emergent fashion.