resurrected_jimmy
1/2 ton status
I hate snakes
I grew up near houston, tx and have dealt with a few snakes from rattlers to cottonmouths and even ran across 2 coral snakes, but the ones that seemed to be most common are copperheads. When I was 16 I was out doing yard work for parental units one weekend and picked up a water hose coiled insde a ceramic pot and the damn thing bit me on the hand. It took me a second to realixe there was about a 18" long copperhead wrapped around the hose. My dad came running outside to try and figure out why I was screaming like a madman and beating a waterhose against the ground like it was possesed.
Now we have dead snake and swelling hand. At this point my mom is involved as well. She runs inside and grabs a large bowl and fills it with ice and water and immediately makes me shove my hand in there up to my elbow. While my dad is collecting the snake to take with us (there is no doubt to any of us that its a copperhead but if you get bit by a snake and are able to do so bring the DEAD beast to the hospital with you) my mom makes a kind of semi-tourniquet above my wrist to slow the blood flow but not cut it off completely.
The hospital is only about 15 minutes away. Get there and go through there BS.... my hand is past the point of hurting at this point and is almost completely numb from the ice water which I'm still not allowed to take my hand out of. Doc comes in looks at it for a minute an then cuts the back of my hand open and removes 4 or 5 little balls of wax lookin stuff..... half frozen venom.
They did not give me anti-venom but some other meds and kept me for a couple of hours to see if it got any worse other than that I had about a 2" long cut on my hand from the doc removing the venom
sorry for the long read but thought ya'll might be interested
I grew up near houston, tx and have dealt with a few snakes from rattlers to cottonmouths and even ran across 2 coral snakes, but the ones that seemed to be most common are copperheads. When I was 16 I was out doing yard work for parental units one weekend and picked up a water hose coiled insde a ceramic pot and the damn thing bit me on the hand. It took me a second to realixe there was about a 18" long copperhead wrapped around the hose. My dad came running outside to try and figure out why I was screaming like a madman and beating a waterhose against the ground like it was possesed.
Now we have dead snake and swelling hand. At this point my mom is involved as well. She runs inside and grabs a large bowl and fills it with ice and water and immediately makes me shove my hand in there up to my elbow. While my dad is collecting the snake to take with us (there is no doubt to any of us that its a copperhead but if you get bit by a snake and are able to do so bring the DEAD beast to the hospital with you) my mom makes a kind of semi-tourniquet above my wrist to slow the blood flow but not cut it off completely.
The hospital is only about 15 minutes away. Get there and go through there BS.... my hand is past the point of hurting at this point and is almost completely numb from the ice water which I'm still not allowed to take my hand out of. Doc comes in looks at it for a minute an then cuts the back of my hand open and removes 4 or 5 little balls of wax lookin stuff..... half frozen venom.
They did not give me anti-venom but some other meds and kept me for a couple of hours to see if it got any worse other than that I had about a 2" long cut on my hand from the doc removing the venom
sorry for the long read but thought ya'll might be interested
