re: Anyone been bitten by a venomous snake or knows someone who has?

Not with ins. Suck it poor people.

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story. Arm looks like he put it in a sausage grinder.


 

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From just being bit? Pssh.

My Grandpa when I was a kid, but it didn't inject him with venom. Was an eastern Diamondback. He killed it, and has the skin on a hat he wears.


In Boyscouts one of the guys got bit walking in the woods in Mississippi. We were a long way from the nearest road, and had to help carry him out.
His leg got huge.
He went to Brother Martin, can't remember his name though.

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He crawled up in my sleeping bag and I didn't check it before I crawled in. He bit me, I screamed like a bitch and the DI looked at it, told me to shut my whore mouth and go back to sleep. The senior DI had medical come have a look and they sent me back to sick bay. Got a day's bed rest out if it and then back to the sticks. Hurt like a son of a bitch.

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great story!

I've never been bitten but I had a dog (lab mix) get bit. Lip swelled up the size of a damn football. Dog just took it easy for a day. Brought to vet only for him to tell me if survived this long she will be fine.

Kid I went to junior high school with found out the hard way that smoking pot and handling a cottonmouth don't mix.

When we were in high school, my brother and I had two rattlesnakes, a cottonmouth, and a copperhead with 7 babies as pets.

We went out snake hunting all the damn time. They get pretty tame after being in captivity for awhile and view you simply as the guy who drops mice in their cages.

Brother got careless one day while we were cleaning their cages and mama copperhead got him on his ring finger, probably because she was extra nervous with the babies being in there.

Made it to the hospital within 30 minutes for anti-venom and they still had to amputate his finger. Parents made us get rid of all our poisonous pets.

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He crawled up in my sleeping bag and I didn't check it before I crawled in. He bit me, I screamed like a bitch and the DI looked at it, told me to shut my whore mouth and go back to sleep. The senior DI had medical come have a look and they sent me back to sick bay. Got a day's bed rest out if it and then back to the sticks. Hurt like a son of a bitch.

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great story!

I've never been bitten but I had a dog (lab mix) get bit. Lip swelled up the size of a damn football. Dog just took it easy for a day. Brought to vet only for him to tell me if survived this long she will be fine.

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The thing was, I don't remember getting anything but Motrin for it. That was like the miracle drug of the Corps; blow out a knee, have some motrin; fell off the O course and busted your shite? Here's some motrin.

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Posted by islandtiger With one friend in AZ who was bitten by a mohave rattlesnake...bad. With another friend who was bitten by a cottonmouth...not so bad. Given the thousands of venomous snakes I have caught or encountered (including sea snakes) I consider myself very fortunate to have not been bitten, although I would have milked that "war story" had I not been so fortunate.

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What work do you do that has you handling so many snakes?

Former amateur hepetologist, former natural resources student/grad student, former LDWF biologist, current program manager. The only snakes I encounter these days are in meeting rooms.

So, basically, the official answer to 'raise or lower?' is, "well, raise it unless that might not work, otherwise lower it, except you might want to keep it level, instead."

That author have a side business in financial newsletters?