western diamondback bite wound

Health insurance is not a problem at all in the Netherlands.
Whatever i payd last year , i know it was worth it!
The total price of my hospitaltreatments is around 115.000 dollars.

A positiv attitude helps the healingproces and allso the support of my family was great.
Normally it takes about 14 - 18 months to heal , in my case is was 7 months.

115,000 is a lot of $ for anyone really. Health insurance would help cover you from snake bites in the USA I am pretty sure (mine does) but I have to pay a montly premium ($200 a mos for my family, thanks to USBank Corp.) But damn! I could not imagine just the operation itself, let alone the bill!

Without insurance , both bill and operation would be equally painfull:D
In the Netherlands everybody has health insurance unlike USA...

the wound vac saved your arm a lot of healing time.

I was actually considering getting a hot but not anymore. :O Nice medi bill though :salute:

De vac was used for about 1 week and saved at least 2 weeks in healing of the wound.
In Belgium (small country next to the Netherlands) a drunken hot-owner stuck his tongue out to his rattler with open window and the snake bit him in his tongue. He lived for two weeks and died of suffication DISPITE the use of 24 vials of anti-venom.
He was bragging to his friends , now his friends are bragging about him:snake:

Sounds like fun, they walk in a bar, a drunk starts ranting about his car, etc. The guys say "oh yeah my friend choked on his own tounge"