re: Friend just bitten by this snake. Copperhead?

If it's swollen they got venom. If it didn't swell in the first 30 minutes you can skip the ER.

Hope they are insured. The antivenom is a racket.

No questions about how she got bit on the hand? Trying to pick it up? Or laying in wait and surprise bite?

Fascinating if you look at the list of deaths from venomous snakes in the US it seems more than half are from some sort of religious event.

Many of them in Kentucky for whatever reason.

I've seen many snake bites over the years. Seems like 95% of copperhead bites go home after 2 hours observation, a tetanus shot and a vicodin. The few moccasin bites I remember were pretty nasty and got crofab and admitted, as well as timber rattler bites. Seen a guy die after the second timber rattler bite. He was in ICU 6 months earlier for same thing. Dumbass kept picking them up! The only coral snake bite I've ever seen looked fine, but went to ICU for observation. Seems most bites are either on the hand from gardening or picking them up, the rest are on foot from walking in flip flops. I NEVER walk thru my yard in the dark, in flip flops, without a light. I actually walked up on a juvenile copperhead earlier this year in my back yard. I was in flip flops, and without my phone light shining down, I would have stepped right on that mthrfrkr.

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Many of them in Kentucky for whatever reason.

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That's because we have Holiness Pentecostal churches aka "snake handling" churches scattered all over back home. Growing up there, I hunted with a buddy of mine who's daddy was and still is a snake handling preacher in Harlan County. We would go out and hunt for timber rattlers and copperheads to sell to the church members. A big yella rattler would get you a $150.

Even amongst us hillbillies, snake handlers stand out.

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you think ordinary sneakers actually provide some protection

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Not necessarily, I just think it's the fact that most bites occur around the house / garden sceneries. I always wear snake boots when I go to South Texas hunting. My cousin wears his fkn crocs.. to me, that is just asking to ruin a hunting trip. I believe in risk reduction. While I'm not gonna wear snake boots in my yard, I do have 3 acres backed up to woods and marsh, and I don't venture past the lawnmowed area in flip flops ever.

anti venin or venom will make her girl parts smell funny for a while.

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he was in a flower pot

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Dick move right there! Damn

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What was the pain like when she first got bit?

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TigrrrDad

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You gonna find out first hand one of these days if you keep handling them