VIDEO - Child Bitten by Copperhead [UPDATED 06-24-13]
Jun 22, 2013 20:22:44 GMT -5
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Post by Greg Stamper on Jun 22, 2013 20:22:44 GMT -5
WOLFE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A Wolfe County boy is home recovering from a snake bite. On Friday, a copperhead bit 10-year-old Shane Blackburn while he was hiking with a church group in the Red River Gorge. Blackburn is still suffering from the effects of the venom in his body.
"I was checking out a rock cave, and I couldn't see the snake at all," explained Blackburn, "it just striked me in the leg, and it hurt like a needle."
Fellow hikers from Blackburn's church group spotted the snake, even managed to get a picture of it. They say it was a copperhead. If bites from copperheads aren't treated fast, doctors say victims could suffer serious tissue damage, or joint and muscle damage.
"It's painful and hurts," he notes.
Mom Sarah Blackburn is a certified nursing assistant.
"I deal with patients every day, but when it's your own kid it's completely different," she said, "when I found out it was a copperhead I kind of panicked a little bit."
She wasn't with her son at the time, but rushed to the hospital as soon as she found out.
"I had all kinds of stuff running through my mind. It was just horrible, it was terrifying, I was shaking all over by the time I got to him."
Blackburn is back home recovering. He has to walk with crutches until his foot heals.
www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/Boy-back-home-after-copperhead-bites-him-212831171.html
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Two Breathitt County children bitten by copperheads in one day
WOLFE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A mother says she was terrified to learn her ten-year-old son had been bitten by a copperhead. She also says she was shocked when she got to the hospital to find another set of parents going through the exact same thing
Sarah Blackburn says her son, Shane, was hiking in the Red River Gorge with a church group on Friday when he was bitten.
"He had felt what he thought was a needle or something and he looked down and every body started yelling snake," Blackburn said.
Someone with the group took a picture of the snake before it disappeared back into the woods. It was identified as a copperhead.
"He's been in a lot of pain, last night was kind of rough on us," she said.
Shane was brought to the Kentucky River Medical Center in Jackson. Blackburn says she was surprised by the questions she heard there.
"Walked into the ER and they said 'Is this the other snakebite?'" Blackburn said.
Blackburn says the young girls mother told her she was playing in the front yard of their Breathitt County home when she stepped on the snake while wearing sandals.
She says Shane is on antibiotics and pain medication. She says that pain hasn't dulled his sense of humor.
"He said 'This is my first snakebite, I sure hope it's my last," she said.
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"I was checking out a rock cave, and I couldn't see the snake at all," explained Blackburn, "it just striked me in the leg, and it hurt like a needle."
Fellow hikers from Blackburn's church group spotted the snake, even managed to get a picture of it. They say it was a copperhead. If bites from copperheads aren't treated fast, doctors say victims could suffer serious tissue damage, or joint and muscle damage.
"It's painful and hurts," he notes.
Mom Sarah Blackburn is a certified nursing assistant.
"I deal with patients every day, but when it's your own kid it's completely different," she said, "when I found out it was a copperhead I kind of panicked a little bit."
She wasn't with her son at the time, but rushed to the hospital as soon as she found out.
"I had all kinds of stuff running through my mind. It was just horrible, it was terrifying, I was shaking all over by the time I got to him."
Blackburn is back home recovering. He has to walk with crutches until his foot heals.
www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/Boy-back-home-after-copperhead-bites-him-212831171.html
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Two Breathitt County children bitten by copperheads in one day
WOLFE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A mother says she was terrified to learn her ten-year-old son had been bitten by a copperhead. She also says she was shocked when she got to the hospital to find another set of parents going through the exact same thing
Sarah Blackburn says her son, Shane, was hiking in the Red River Gorge with a church group on Friday when he was bitten.
"He had felt what he thought was a needle or something and he looked down and every body started yelling snake," Blackburn said.
Someone with the group took a picture of the snake before it disappeared back into the woods. It was identified as a copperhead.
"He's been in a lot of pain, last night was kind of rough on us," she said.
Shane was brought to the Kentucky River Medical Center in Jackson. Blackburn says she was surprised by the questions she heard there.
"Walked into the ER and they said 'Is this the other snakebite?'" Blackburn said.
Blackburn says the young girls mother told her she was playing in the front yard of their Breathitt County home when she stepped on the snake while wearing sandals.
She says Shane is on antibiotics and pain medication. She says that pain hasn't dulled his sense of humor.
"He said 'This is my first snakebite, I sure hope it's my last," she said.
Click Link for Video:
www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Two-Breathitt-County-children-bitten-by-copperheads--212632721.html