That's a good story to point out the fact that if you were bitten by a boa, and it still hurts or swells the next day or more, chances are about 99% that you still have teeth or teeth fragments embedded in the skin.

I say this because i've always been asked by those 'normal people'... are you gonna die? do you have to go to the hospital to take out the venom?! (*LOL*) is it going to get infected? and so on..

I did the same thing. Probed with a needle, with a knife, squeezing, moving, etc...
found nothing...
still hurt for some strange reason? got worse and worse for the next 2 days.. I go to check, and the tooth is now hanging out of the finger about to fall out... lol

There should really not be pain or infection lasting longer than the initial shock, unless we are talking about a really ugly situation.

On another note, I was bitten by a 4 foot albino the other day, right on my wrist. I had red lines covering my wrist and over 60 teeth holes directly over my veins! I must've looked like the biggest dope fiend out there!!! LOL

Anyway, it didn't hurt, but the puncturing of blood vessels and the movement and pulling of the skin when the snake and you pull away from each other causes a bit of internal bleeding. Minor bleeding, just looked like a black and blue, but you should've seen the size of it!!!
The mouth mark was about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide,
the bruise was about 6 inches long and 4 inches wide !!!!

Nothing serious, all is well... usually looks much worse than it is..


Play safe kids!


Bci Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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