Our granddaughter was bit by a copperhead on Mother’s Day 2010, right out in our backyard in the mid-afternoon. It was lying in a large patch of english ivy; she came walking down through the ivy from a swing up on a landing; stepped right on the snake. It struck her three times in the left foot. She was four at the time. Rushed her to the hospital, ten minutes away. She was treated and transferred to our county’s main hospital where she stayed for four days. She came through fine, thank God; but we’ll never forget it, although she seemed to have put it behind her within a couple weeks. My husband found and killed the snake, which was about 18 inches.
She was lucky, the antivenin can cause as much problem as the venom in many people