Snake Bite

[larryours]

I got coppersnake bit back in the early '80s, while I was Deputy Sheriff, looking for a stolen cash box along the Potomac River, along the bulworks(old time stone levie). Anyway, it wasn't what I had imagine a snake bite would feel like, it felt like someone had jabbed me in the leg with the blunt end of a broom, except when I checked my leg there was two fang marks with blood ozzing out. Went to the local hospital, an the E.R. doctor that was on duty had to be rallied up from his sleep. The nurse knew it was a snake bite, the doctor either didn't know what a snake bite was or just didn't give a d@*#%, said I think it's from briars, I told him Doc, I've been around briars all my life and I never had two fangs marks though my uniform pant leg, two fang marks, with blood oozing out and starting to turn black and blue around the marks, and I've been in briar patches hunting all my life. He asked me if I was working that night, I said I was. He said if you feel sick come back As I left the emergency room, I told the nurse, I better not receive a bill for this! Which I never did ! Anyway, I went home, and used a snake bite kit on my leg, I did feel sick that night but I didn't go back to the E.R., the next day I was serving some subpoena's for court, and one was for a Doctor that I knew, I asked him what those marks was and he said snake bite, he asked me if I had sought medical treatment, when I explained to him what had happen, he just shook his head and said you're out of danger now.
This is just one of the many experiences that have occured to me,
If you've been snake bit, tell everyone Your snake bite experence !