Tonight Kaci advised me that her dad had a snake out in the driveway. I thought she was kidding. So being the curious type person I am, I went to look at it. I had never seen one like this before. Not your everyday Garter snake or even a Blue racer. This one was tan and brown. My thought. "Cool!" so I am going to catch it and take it to someone else's yard so our puppy doesn't hurt it.
Well, the bugger bit me! The little stinker! Boyd is thinking it is poisonous. I am thinking not! The girls are freaking out that I was bit by an unknown snake. So I call the telenurse. Their advice in 20 minutes, go to the emergency room. geez.... it is just a baby.... The bite was as big as this (..) and that might actually be bigger, but because there were two dots... I needed to be seen.
So here I go into the emergency room. I was in and out in 1 hour! That is a record! Found out it was not poisonous, it was a baby corn snake, aka a rat snake. I had 10 minutes of soak in iodine on my finger and now 5 days of antibiotics because snakes carry bacteria in their mouths. Now you have heard about my Jeff Corwin Experience! I guess you could say, "I'm no Jeff Corwin!"
The baby corn snake in the mop bucket.
1 comment:
I personally think you needed to be checked out for being a little crazy in the head. What in the world were you doing even touching a snake!?! YUCK!!!!
I know you are an animal over, but I still think garden hoes were created to get rid of snakes. :)
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