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RE: Bite victim seeks info on long term effects
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by Chris_Harper on March 8, 2006
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Phillip,
Yeah, that music is so appropo for that footage. And that was H.Clamp at the end. The cottonmouth bite that caused the missing finger was due to cryotherapy according to Heyward.
~CH
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by toddg on March 8, 2006
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Initially, I had some problems as well but I finally got it to play..... 'don't know what I did though, I just started pressing buutons and it played. Although, musically speaking, I think I would've prefered Great White's once bitten.....twice shy!
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by Grog on March 8, 2006
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I got the link to work. It must have been my browser settings. I had to open windows media and open the URL. My browser was trying to download the file, which is set as a no-no.
Sorry for the false alarm. User Error.
GROG
(Finger's about 95% back to normal, getting more range to finger, can't quite make a tight fist yet, but improving. Don't have to hold hand over my head anymore for pain.)
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by toddg on March 8, 2006
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Just out of curiosity, how, exactly, did you get bit?
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by Grog on March 8, 2006
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I am a teacher at a small high school. Our campus is across the street from a large nature preserve. The water mocassin mosied right up to the front door of the school. It crossed a road and our parking lot to get there.
Students found it first. We got the kids away and to class (lunch had just ended.) The Asst. Principal and I were trying to get the snake off the campus. We clamped it on the neck behind the head with a 3 foot gripper (used to pick up trash or glassware off shelves.) I was putting a canvas coin sack over its head when it got loose from the gripper and hit me on the finger. We gripped it again after that and just picked it up completely with the gripper. We dumped it in the nearest trashcan. After calling poison control and getting a few things in order (I actually went back to my classroom to write the final class's assignment on the board for whomever would substitute) we took the trash bag, with the trash, snake, and all inside, to the hospital with me.
A fish and wildlife officer came to the ER, identified the snake, and took it away with him. I do not know if it was released or destroyed. He wasn't doing anything snakes don't normally do. Who likes to be picked up by the neck? I will say that given my ordeal, I'd probably reach for a shovel instead of a gripper if I was in that situation again. Couldn't just let the snake go on his own and roam the campus. If I were in the wild on a hike or something, it'd be a different story. I'd leave him be and we'd both live happily.
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by LarryDFishel on March 8, 2006
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As long as it was a small snake, using the gripper was probably fine. It was trying to put it in a sack that was a mistake. That can be very tricky without the proper equipment (a bagging net of some sort) and I'm surprised more handlers aren't bitten that way. Next time use the grippers (as long as they are at least as long as the snake) and just drop it in a trash can to start with (preferably empty) and call Fish & Game, or the nature center if they work with snakes.
Better yet, just keep the kids away and call someone to deal with it.
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