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Oklahoma Woman Receives Nearly $200,000 Hospital Bill After Being Bitten by Snake
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| JULY 30, 2015
| Chellie Mills
Posted on 07/30/2015 9:26:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Eagles6
Why would you get chased by or run from a water snake? They are harmless as the day is long.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:59:09 AM PDT
by
RoadGumby
(This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
To: antidisestablishment
Interesting. Never heard of them. Will do some research and stay out of their way.
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posted on
07/31/2015 3:00:42 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: RoadGumby
Not the ones on the Upper Youghiogheny! They will come after you in the water and on land. Looks like Jurrasic Park, only much, much smaller.
Hard to tell from a copperhead at a quick glance, similar markings.
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posted on
07/31/2015 3:08:47 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: fso301
"A $200K bill for treating a bite from a snake that is rarely fatal?"
That's what concerned me about the article. I had read Copperhead venom can kill small children, but it only makes adults sick.
To: ziravan
>> Would 18 doses of CroFab have been avail in a single payer system?
If Hillary wins, we’ll find out.
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posted on
07/31/2015 3:19:57 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
To: Eagles6
They are not common—really only found in a small area of California, and they aren’t aggressive. We used to catch them for the local antivenin program since they were pretty rare, but that was before Crofab was developed.
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posted on
07/31/2015 3:47:55 AM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
(I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
To: roamer_1
If anything is wrong with our country it’s that people can’t comprehend basic math any longer...
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
The most appalling part of it is that she had no earthly idea what the cost would be until after the services were rendered? Would ever hire anybody under those circumstances for anything else? You really think the emergency room is a place to comparison shop? You're kind of a captive customer.
To: nickcarraway
The anti-venom is actually an anti-body that is specific for the type of snakes we have here in Oklahoma, said Scott Schaeffer, with the Oklahoma Center For Poison and Drug Information.Its a very expensive anti-venom to make. No, it's not.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:28:37 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: Rusty0604
"Some anti-venom is real cheap in Mexico."Right, and sometimes it even works.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:30:53 AM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
They told me there were no Copperheads in North Ohio. That is similar to soviet Red Hampshire...authorities say there are NO mountain lions here, even though one has been spotted on several occasions over the past couple of months.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:32:02 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: jocon307
Copperhead bites almost never kill.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:32:16 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: fso301
A $200K bill for treating a bite from a snake that is rarely fatal? Would you want to take the chance that you won't be one of the minority?
They has some idiot here in Missouri a few months ago who was bitten by a copperhead. He took your approach and figured he'd be pretty sick but wouldn't die so he went home, went to bed, and was found dead the next morning.
To: Talisker
Experts say you should never try to suck the venom out. In fact, Schaeffer says that could actually make it worse. Also, dont use ice on the bite and dont use a tourniquet to keep the venom from spreading. Without some good reasons, I call bull.Sucking the venom out is ineffective in most cases because it was injected further in than what most will be able to apply suction to and many have had complications from the cuts some try to use after watching the old movies.
Putting a tourniquet on will only exacerbate the biggest problem from most snake bites - swelling has been known to cut off blood supply to the point where amputation is necessary - the tourniquet only speeds up the process by limiting flow earlier in the game - most snake bites are highly survivable and unless the person has a bad heart or other problems, swelling is the biggest threat.
Got that info while attending rattlesnake roundups while stationed in Oklahoma - they taste like dry chicken....
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:34:00 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Google is your friend. Copperhead venom is not deadly for most people unless there is an allergy.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:36:07 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: Eagles6
The smell of melons is a good warning sign. (I don’t know why)
My neighbor was working in her back yard when she smelled melons. The sweet smell of melons. She knew she had a copperhead nest with newly hatched snakes.
She killed every last one of them. It surprised us because this is a girl that never steps out without her hair, makeup and nails done. But she’s got grit.
To: antidisestablishment
Yep. pygmy rattlers are nasty little things.
To: fr_freak
Rattlers here in Nevada are not as noisy as they used to be. The theory is that all of the noisy ones were killed off and the ones left are not as willing or able to rattle. Also, there are Mojave Green’s they will literally pursue a human.
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posted on
07/31/2015 4:50:19 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Section 20.)
To: nickcarraway
I still have my old "Cutter" snake bite kit from the '70s. It contains a sharp blade for cutting open the bite with a couple of "X" cuts, a tourniquet and suction cups for sucking out the poisoned blood.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:12:15 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
To: roamer_1
TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!! So where do you draw the financial line between what is cost effective and what is not?
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