Eclipse53C
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Hello there! Im Jim and new to the reptilian scene but enjoy it very much. I was originally a fish guy but got tired of them cause all they do is swim and nothing else. You cant play with a fish. I was at work the other day and recieved a phone call that a snake was bothering some students at the smoke pad. No biggie, i capture snakes all the time and put them in the woods. This particuler snake was pissed off that a bunch of people were on the smoke pad where he wanted to be. The smoke pad is a giant slab of concrete and is stays warmer longer at night so naturally they're attracted to it. I go out there with a flahslight and a yard stick... The students point him out, i walk over and as soon as i put the light on it, it bit my boots. Nothing bad happened as theyre steel toed. I pinned his head, grabbed ahold of its tail and lifted about two thirds of his body in the air untill he calmed down. Then i grabbed his head; or so i thought. I didnt have a hold of him close enough to his jaws so i let loose a little to get behind his jaws; i cant tell you what happened between that second and the next except my finger hurt. Yep. He bit me in my right index finger middle knuckle...IN THE KNUCKLE!!!! I didnt know this at the time but he was a Copperhead, very pretty Copperhead. One of the students mentioned that it might be a venomous snake and I should go to medical. I neutralized the snake, bagged it up and headed of to medical. About a half hour later i get to the duty corpsman and woke him up. I told him that i got bit by a snake and that one of the students said it was a Copperhead... i have never seen a corpsman move so fast in a non-combat zone. I get to the ER and theyre all laughing at me calling me the 'snake-bite-guy.' Not funny. An hour after the bite the swelling was rediculous and the pain was pretty damn bad. I got a shot of something that i cant write but sounds like 'du-lot-in' and everything after that was funny. I felt like Beavis and Butthead when they ate the mushrooms in the desert in Do America. I was laughing my ass of at the nurses laughing at me. Well, the only smart thing i did that night was bring the snake to the ER with me for a posistive ID. Three days in the ICU and two more under close supervision in a regular room. I almost had to get cut to relieve the swelling and my stretch marks arent noticable anymore. Turns out i was lucky. It was a juvenile and 'she' only got me with one fang, again 'IN MY KNUCKLE!' After 78,000 dollars of antivenom and a total bill of 101,000 dollars, i still have my finger but at the cost of permenet swelling and nerve damage which i can deal with. I also learned a cool fact about myself; when i sleep, my heart rate goes down to the low thirties. I woke up tho the sound of a defribulator charging up!!!!! Now, i own two Corn snakes, King Julian and Miss Piggie, male female respectively. I got lucky, earned a new respect for snakes and love them now!
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