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Posted on 07/24/2005 4:41:59 PM PDT by kingattax
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Going to the bathroom will never be the same for one local woman, not since she was bitten by a water moccasin who was apparently hiding in her toilet.
Alicia Bailey spent three days in the hospital. She's now at home but she's not resting comfortably. She remembers what happened the night she got up to go to the bathroom. "Walked in (to the bathroom) opened up the lid to the toilet and got bit by the water moccasin on the leg."
She was bitten once on the thigh, and given the size of the bite on her leg, many predict it was a very big snake. Alicia says, "His head was every bit of three fingers wide."
She was rushed to the hospital and given anti-venom, but no one knows what happened to the snake or how it got into the house in the first place.
There are woods behind the family's home off Beach Boulevard and with all the recent rain, the snake could have been looking for higher and dryer ground. The family now thinks he could have gotten into the home through the dog door, but there's still a fear, it hasn't left.
Alicia's husband, Richard is searching the home trying to find the snake. He says, "What we're leery about is closets and drawers." He carries a big stick around the house as he looks for the snake and at times his shotgun. "We're not looking to take it alive. I just want it out of here."
Alicia just wants her life, and her house, back. "We're currently very uncomfortable in our home and toilet shy I would say, and real anxious for closure."
The Bailey's have an 11-year old son who is now staying with neighbors. They said, doctors told them, given the size of the snake, if it would have bitten him instead of Alicia, he probably would not have survived
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((Shudder))
She said she "opened up the lid". Toilets have 2 parts, the lid and the seat. You are a man aren't you, my husband doesn't know this either.
Why did I click on this thread!! I get up every night to go to the bathroom and I never turn the light on. (until tonight)
Considering she was going to the toilet, if it bit her on the thigh, she should consider herself very lucky.
In a suburb just east of Orlando, a client of mine had an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake that slithered out from the woods that stretched the width of his driveway--a two-car garage driveway!
In the mornings, I have no choice, but to pee in the shower.hehehe
Time to get a mongoose.
There was a fright movie a long time ago where the woman got in the bathtub and while she was soaking, a snake came up the drain.........
I almost never got over that one.
These doctors know nothing about snakes. A baby venomous snake has the same level of toxin as an adult. An average person will survive a bite from a moccassin if they don't panic, and get to a hospital promptly. It was particularly dangerous for this hospital to administer an anti-venom when they didn't know the species of the snake. It may not have been venomous at all!
Misplaced commas, too many commas, extraneous apostrophes . . .
Gawd, she looks like a big woman. That can't be her toilet--I bet she uses a double-wide.
I bet that snake was frustrated--too much target area to attack.
Costanza is that you?
You and me both!
In fact, we'd probably end up with the post-traumatic Snake-Hiding-In-Toilet Syndrome, sometimes referred to as the post traumatic SH*TS). :-D
And I thought I had a problem with ants ...
PETA would call it justice. Snakes have rights enshrined in the Constitution, I imagine.
From a pic down the thread there appears to be two punctures on the lady's knee. NO swelling, NO discoloration, NO dead skin!!! This within three or four days of the bite? Something doesn't smell quite right.
FGS
I think I have that right now after reading this article.
Just the thought!
However, Arizona Diamondbacks are harmless.
LOL
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