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by Peter84Jenkins on January 9, 2008
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Thanks for your comments. My wife has liberated the chair as of late. There are scars and still a vary faint swelling in my left index finger knuckle. I was only able to pop or crack that knuckle last month and boy it felt great! Thanks again.
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by greenlizard on January 11, 2008
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I studied the effects of rattlesnake bites in a pre-med biology class in college. DO NOT listen to anybody who tries to tell you that you could have gotten away without scars had you avoided the surgery. With the post-bite symptoms you describe, you were lucky to avoid a far worse outcome. You had a great result under what were unfortunately very difficult circumstances. Hang in there and thanks for sharing. You sound like you have a great sense of humor and a wonderfully supportive family.
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by Elapids000 on February 10, 2008
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You didn't need the knife. I have refused it many times
myself.I have also refused anti venom when possible so
to not become allergic.I have had some wild times in the Er also.
Bill Haast and his over the phone advise to the doctor helped me in 1993 when I was bitten by a 9ft
blk forest cobra.I took 23 vials,some ours and some from the DC zoo and Philly zoo.I was on a resperator 3 days and a recovery rm 3 more.No after affects at all!
I have tried to be more careful since then and haven't suffered any more bites that required an er visit.
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by scott87 on February 12, 2008
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before i read this i always thought it would be kind of cool to get bit by a snake, what can i say i was a dumb kid.
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by cobra9mm on April 12, 2008
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GLAD TOO HEAR YOU MADE IT THROUGH THAT !! I WAS BIT BY MY ALBINO COBRA SHE WAS SMALL ABOUT 12 TO 18 LONG , I WAS CLEANING HER CAGE SHE TAGGED ME ON THE THUMB , WHAT MOST PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND ABOUT SNAKE'S IS MOST BITE'S ARE OF OUR DOING MAKING MISTAKES IT TAKES JUST ONE LITTLE MISTAKE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD LABLES YOU AS CARELESS PERSON !! I WAS WORKING WITH GATOR LAND HERE IN FL AND A LADY YOU MAY EVEN KNOW HER ARE HEARD OF HER TANETH TARA, OUT OF MELBOUNE,FL I THINK I SPELLED HER NAME RIGHT !! WHEN I GOT BIT THE HOSPITAL HAD NO ANITIVENOM AT ALL , I KNEW A GUY WHO LIVED ABOUT 10 MILES FROM THE HOSPITAL SO MY MOM JUMPED IN HER CAR AND RACED TO HIS HOUSE HE HAD THE ANTIVENOM GREAT SO MY MOM RACED HIM BACK TO THE HOSPITAL ONLY TOO GET THERE AND BE TOLD WE CANT USE THIS , MY MOM WAS GOING INSANE FINALY THEY CALLED GEORGE VANHORN AND HE HAD 5 VIALS THAT WASNT ENOUGH , SO THEY FLEW IN ANOTHER 10 VIALS FROM MIAMI ! MY THOUGHT ON HOSPITAL'S AND THE DOCTOR'S AND THERE STAFF SHOULD BE BETTER TRAINED ON SNAKE BIT'S AND HOW TO TREAT THEM AND NOT BE JUDGEMENTAL AT THE TIME I WAS GETTING TREATED DONT START SAYING TO ME WELL YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFULL, SOME OF THING'S I HEARD FROM THE STAFF NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID TO ME ! I AM DOING RESEARCH TO HELP IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE GET'S BIT. WE ARE TRYING TO HELP YOUR LOVEED ONE'S GET FASTER RESPOND SO THEY DO NOT DIE, AND AS YOU AND I ARE BOTH AWARE WE LOVE WHAT WE DO OR WE WOULD NOT BE DOING IT IF WE DIDNT I WAS AROUND 7 YEARS OLD WHEN I STRATED GETTING IT TOO SNAKES ! I HOPE ONE DAY THERE VENOM WILL CURE AND IF NOT ALEAST HELP CANCER PATIENT'S , I AM LUCKY TO BE ALIVE ALSO THESE HOSPITALS THAT DONT SEE THIS KIND OF THING'S EVERYDAY, (SNAKE BITE'S) !! THERE ARE NO WORDS TO SAY HOW BAD THEY TREAT YOU IT WAS LIKE I MURDERED SOMEONE ,THANK GOD FOR MY MOM SHE TOLD THEM YOU NEED TO GET ON THE HORN AND FIND THIS BOY SOME CROFAB NOW THEY WHERE ALSO READY TOO KICK HER OUT AND THEN AFTER DRIVING AT UNLAWFUL SPEED'S TOO GO PICK THE ANTIVENOM UP FOR THEM ! THEY TOLD HER WE CANT USE THIS BECAUSE WE DONT KNOW THIS PERSON FROM WHICH IT CAME, ON THE BOTTLE'S THAT JIMMY MITCHEL HAD BROUGHT, HE GOT REAL UPSET AND THEY DID KICK HIM OUT OF THE HOSPITAL ALL THE BOTTLE'S WERE LABLED AND IN DATE THERE WAS NO REASON FOR THEM TO NOT USE THE ANIVENOM THEY SHOULD HAVE USED THEM! MY HAND MY ARM WAS GETTING WORSE I WAS GETTING UNABLE TO BREATH ON MY OWN .THANK GOD I DID NOT NEED SURGERY AS YOU DID !! AFTER THEY PUMPED 15 VIALS IN MY THEY TOOK ME TOOK ICU FOR A FEW DAYS AND WAS RELEASED , I ALSO DO SNAKE RESCUE AND I HAVE HEARD THE SAME THING YOU DID THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT A SNAKE IS A DEAD SNAKE !! WELL AS I SAID I AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU MADE IT THROUGH ALL THAT YOU WENT THROUGH , FROM ONE SNAKE BITE TO ANOTHER TAKE CARE ,,CHRIS
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by constrictor21 on June 25, 2008
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im sorry to hear about your misfortune do you still keep hots ive considered getting in to hots i own a rainbow boa a carpet python and a 22 yr old ball and 2 2 yr olds plus a worm snake
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by mrmuckle on August 9, 2008
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In 1959, I was bitten twice by a Pacific Coast Rattlesnake - ON THE HEAD! The snake was about a year old, maybe 12" or 14" long, and had one "button".
I had just gotten off my school bus (I was 11 at the time). I raced the bus towards my house on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, So. Calif., and, reaching my front yard, I tossed my books to the ground and did a "slide into home plate" on our lawn. I hadn't seen the small rattlesnake on the grass in my path, and I guess my sliding right over him had really pissed him off. I felt a qiuck "bump" on the top of my head, followed quickly by another. I lay on my back in the yard, and my curosity got the better of me, so I raised up on my left elbow, turned, and was face-to-face with the snake, about 8" apart. I remember letting out a slow, rumbly groan as I realized what had happened. Rattlesnakes were a fairly common sight in our neighborhood, so my mom was not fazed by my telling her that there was a rattlesnake in our front yard. She went to the garage for a hoe, and I, beginning to shiver and shake, went inside to die. I turned on the TV, then went into the bathroom to pour mercurichrome on top of my head. Then I found myself back in my room, on my bed. My mom came in, saying that she couldn't find the snake, but halted in her tracks when she saw me. About 3 or 4 minutes had passed, and my head, she later told me, looked as if I had half a grapefruit under the scalp on top. She let out a smallcream, then headed to the phone to call a neighbor with a car, then called our doctor, who, in return, called USC medical school, which he knew to have supplies of antivenon. As we left our house for the doctor's office, a helicopter was leaving USC with the antivenon. We reached the doctor first, followed by police, which shut down the street for the helicopter to land. (Most of this was told to me a week or so later). I remember a small part of driving to the doctors, then waking up hours later (that night) in a hospital room while nurses applied suction cups to the top of my head (now shaved and revealing the 4 punctures). I slept. Boy, did I SLEEP! I was groggy for several days, and would just "nod off" in the middle of a sentance. After 4 days in the hospital, I went home. On the fifth day, we had a television crew in our livingroom, with me laying on the couch while George Putnam interviewed my parents about the rash of rattlesnakes we'd experienced that summer, in our neighborhood, as the canyon below our backyard was being bulldozed into Hawthorne Blvd., stirring all the snakes up and convincing them to move towards quieter grounds.
I would later wear a baseball cap, and charge my classmates 25 cents to look at the bites. I made about $10 the first day.
That was about the 4th or 5th time I had had a serious "head injury", and not the last - my head always seems to be the target for something...
Anyway, I got several nice letters from across the country, and one from Australia. The neatest letter came from an older woman who recounted the story of her father being bitten by a rattler while crossing the country in a wagon train. He lived, and so did I.
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by svsnakes on September 5, 2008
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I'm sorry to say, welcome to the club. This shows, in my opinion, that if someone is going to keep any hots they should talk to their local hospitals and get them in touch with Venom 1 in order to educate themselves. Glad you came thru it and good luck in the future.
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by shannzgabn on September 11, 2008
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How are you feeling now? I was bit twice by a timber rattlesnake a little over three months now and I'm just anxious for the pain and heat in my foot to be gone.
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