Holy crap! What was it like? What were you doing? You weren't trying to pet it were you?
Steroids suck. I was given them for my back pain in the beginging of the year, I had never felt so low in my life, laid in bed most days, cried a lot.
Hope you're feeling 100% soon!
Let's just say it required massive amounts of stupidity to pull off. My friend Jenn brought it in a plastic icecream tub and said it had bitten her and it hurt like hell and could I tell whether it was a copperhead. So I grabbed the ice cream tub and opened it and said yep looks like copperhead.
It was dinky and absolutely adorable. Then Olive, my Jack Russell started barking and trying to get at the snake so I pushed her away and the snake struck me hard as I went to put the lid on.
It was pretty stunning and began to burn immediately. Called the ambulance and asked them to come pick me up told them what happened. Jenn went back over to her mother's house with the snake.
Jenny was hiding out cuz she didn't want to go to the hospital but I told on her and the paramedics scooped her up and off to the hospital we went. Its a long story but it involves lots of pain, needles, shots, hives, ridicule, and lots of drugs, all provided in a hospital setting.
One thing that makes you nervous is that the doctors are looking up sh1t on google to formulate a treatment plan.
It was pretty wicked.