My worst bite yet (pics)!

[Lolo76]

I've probably been bitten a dozen or so times in the years I've been keeping snakes, but this one is a doozy!! Courtesy of Kipling the JCP, who mistook my thumb for a rat during a feeding last night. OMG, this one was SPURTING blood... literally splattered my shirt, legs, and spots on the rug, as I ran to the bathroom to try stopping it. For a minute I thought it might require an ER visit (to stop the bleeding), which I secretly wanted just to see their faces when I ran in yelling "SNAKE BITE!" Here in the urban Bay Area, that probably isn't something they hear very often.

Anyway, it is now very blue, swollen, and still hurting quite a bit. You don't realize how important a thumb is, until you no longer have full use of it - especially now with texting & smart-phoning, which we do mostly with our thumbs. Even typing this on my laptop is kinda painful. Here are a few pics, and believe me, it hurts even worse than it looks:



This is where most of the blood came from... think he hit a vein?


And here's the culprit (when he was smaller), who is usually a super mellow guy - I swear.