re: Snake bites.....how many of you actually know anyone....

I have a friend who was bitten twice by cottonmouths. First time he had no insurance and cost him $3,000.00 in hospital bills (in late 1980's). The second time was a couple years later. Didn't go to hospital (stubborn redneck). Said that night was worst night in his life. Stayed up all night vomiting, sweating, cramping. Finally passed out from abdominal pains around 4:00 am. Woke up around 10:00 am feelin fine. No lasting affects.

I work in an ER in SE La. Kinda weird but I've had to give CroFab twice in the last 10 days for Snake bites. No positive ID on the type of snake, but obviously venomous. By far, the majority of bites from poisonous snakes that I see seem to be dry.

feller that used to bale our hay back in the 60's had a copperhead bite him on his middle finger.. they ended up amputating it..

eta: Union Parish

I'm waitin on Teague and Mung to weigh in on this one...

Copperhead here in 2010. My neighbor got bit iN the Thumb while he was reaching for a water house to blast the red wasp that had just stung him in the neck ,

The wasp hurt worse but the swelling made them transport him to Tyler for antivenom so he missed some good football games, funny but he almost died from the double hits and it was 94 degrees.

My dad's been bitten, a day in the hospital (probably 10 years ago)

I've been bitten by a baby alligator. Dad caught one that was about 2 feet long and put it in a bucket. His goal was to teach us how dangerous they were by putting a stick in the bucket and let us see it snap it in half.

Well, me being the humanitarian I was (at age 9) tipped over the bucket as soon as he turned his back (thought I was "freeing" the gator) and it turned and snapped at my leg. Still have a scar.

My nephew got bit by a copperhead on the foot. It was a small one and didn't do a lot of damage just pain and some swelling.

My SIL got bit on the leg by a big snake that she didn't even see. She didn't know she was bit til some one asked her what those holes where in her leg. She said she felt a stick hit her while she was walking down the levee on Caney lake. Lucky for her it was a dry bite.

I had a 4' rattler stike the end of my gun barrel one morning while squirrel hunting. Scared the shite out of me.

When I was a kid a friends PowPow got bit by a big rattler on the hand one night running YoYo's It was in a cypress tree. He lost a lot of use in that hand but didn't have to have anything cut off.

Another friends dad was cutting fire wood the day before. He came back the next morning to finish up and kneeled down to fill his saw up with gas and was bit by a rattler in the knee. He spent a while in the hospital but heeled up pretty good. The man was scared to death of a snake even before this happened.

The dumbest one was a guy caught a 2' rattler and was showing it off while drunk it got out of his hold and bit him on his thumb. That fricker split his thumb wide open sucked the venom out and pored whiskey on it. I guess it got better because he didn't lose it.



These are just a few stories that I know of about people getting bit or struck at by snakes. This is why I am not to sympathetic for the ones that get smashed with a shovel.

What is a cane break? And no not the beer, which is very good by the way.

Got bit by a copperhead when I was a kid and the fang hung in my shoe without breaking the skin. The poison lit the surface of my skin up till I washed it off and got that fang out. I thought my foot had been hit with a sweeping thorn bush. Pulled off my shoe when it became unbearable and pulled that fang out and noticed the one right beside it.

Killed the copperhead later. Was about three feet long.