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[Recondo 101]

Everyone thought the neighbor died from a heart attack, nope. Undertaker said his blood was coagulated in his right arm and it was not a heart attack at all, was a poison snake bite and here is a picture of the bite to prove it His right arm had turned black and was swollen up and the picture showed two fang marks on the back of his right hand.

He had an infection from a scratch his right hand he got from cleaning his mower deck and been on IV antibiotics daily for 10 days, So then he got better, was fine, so his wife went to see her daughter, when she came back home, he was laying in the floor, dead.

He was cleaning up the yard and they figure he picked up a pecan limb that was a copper head instead, and it caught a vein or artery and he made it inside but never made it to the phone.

 

[Viking1204]

What neighbor, who?

 

[rossi]

.....??

 

[ABlaster]

.....??

Wondering the same thing.

 

[Recondo 101]

Neighbor has a place across the road, was a hunter and antique tractor enthusiast. After I reaserched it a bit more I figure it could not have been a copper Head that bit him, only two that fit that ability, an Eastern Diamondback and an Eastern Cottonmouth, that has adapted to pine woods, and is brown with pidy rings, not black. Both can be deadly and both are hemotoxic and the babies are as toxic as the adult. But if struck on the back of the hand and if the fangs get a vein or artery, you do not have very long to tie off a tourniquet and get to a hospital. Be careful, the rattling snakes here do not always rattle and the Cottonmouth may not be in or near water or even be black.

This is not really about the neighbor it is about a local very fast death due to a poison snake bite. That was originally listed as a heart attack.