re: How Many People Do You Know that Were Bitten by a Venomous Snake?

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cleaning up and got tagged by a cottonmouth.

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Did he live?

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They didn’t go to the doctor when they noticed/felt something strange over the next day or two? The venom can’t possibly work that fast unless you neglect the bite. Maybe it can.

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He made all of it up. Zero people have had their foot or leg amputated because of a brown recluse.

Around 7-8 in the past 2 years. But they were all either trying to catch the snake (or looking for other snakes). The worst was around 16 days in the ICU and 88 vials of anti-venin. The most recent one was a bite from a Sonoran coral a couple weeks ago - the only one I know bitten while free-handling a catch.

Incidentally, I just got back from a TX/AZ trip and caught 59 rattlesnakes (8 different species). 79 snakes/21 species in total.

ETA: I haven’t been bitten by a venomous snake yet, but did take a bite from a baby gila monster on last month’s Arizona trip.

There was a several acre patch of blackberries a short walk from where I grew up. My brother's and I would get dispatched by our mom to go pick a gallon or more and she'd make cobbler and preserves or jelly. Same place had wild groves of plum trees and we'd get those, too. But one day, our friend, Tommy, got bit by copperhead while picking berries for his mom. He lost his big toe on the foot that got bit by the snake.

After that, whenever mom would make blackberry jam we would affectionately call it Tommy' Toe Jam.