One day, a couple was spending time together in their yard when suddenly a strange snake appeared, changing their lives forever.
By the end of their journey, hospitals, blood tests, vets, police, and not one but two wild animal chases would reveal the truth!
A Normal Day Turns Disturbing
John and Liz – last name withheld – were nothing more than a happily married couple relaxing in their yard when things took a disturbing turn. While John was reading a book, he heard Liz – who’d been working in the garden – shriek in a mix of pain and terror. Rushing to her aid as a good spouse would, he discovered a scene that shocked him to his core.
As John rushed to Liz, he saw her recoiling in fear from what initially appeared to be a small garden snake. However, when he looked closer, John thought he saw two small arms coming from the creature’s body. John couldn’t help himself and picked up the creature to examine it in curiosity; however, as he looked it over, the animal locked onto his arm with a bite.
John recoiled in pain and dropped the snake. Despite the creature’s small size, the bite on his arm was large, and he began bleeding profusely. Liz ran inside and grabbed a towel, wrapping it around the bite in an attempt to curb the bleeding. However, it continued unabated, leaving the two in fear. They struggled to figure out their next move.
Since his wound wouldn’t stop bleeding, John and Liz decided they needed to get him to the emergency room. However, first, they decided they needed to capture the strange snake. However, they struggled to do so as it seemed to move quickly around the yard. Eventually, they would trap the creature in a shoebox, and they took off to the hospital.
While John and Liz got to the hospital relatively promptly, the news there wasn’t what they hoped for. The doctors were able to treat John’s bite wound, but they couldn’t explain why the bite had bled so much nor what the creature itself actually was. After his treatment was complete, John and Liz decided to take the “snake” to a vet, hoping to get some answers. The reaction at that office would shock them.
While John and Liz arrived at the vet’s office looking for answers, they were instead greeted by more questions. The team at the office had no explanation for what the creature was. In fact, the attending vet wouldn’t even confidently identify the creature as a snake. Suffice it to say, that didn’t precisely make John or Liz comfortable, considering the gaping wound on his arm.
Initially, John thought that his anxiety about the bite was starting to affect him at the vet’s office physically. However, as he began to feel clammy and cold, he realized there was a bigger problem. The vet looked at the bite and saw a dark circle forming around John’s bite wound. This shocked the vet, who quickly entered the office’s storage room and pulled out a locked medical box that appeared to be very old.
The vet ripped open the box and pulled out an antidote. After explaining that it was a rare antidote, he told John and Liz “We have to inject this directly into the bite… immediately.” The vet’s insistent tone told the couple that things were getting even more severe and fast.
Initially, John was a bit hesitant to have the antidote injected directly into the bite, fearing that it would cause an intense amount of pain. However, the vet’s intense pushing of the antidote, combined with Liz’s encouragement, led to him agreeing to the injection, albeit somewhat pessimistically.
The shot made John feel better near immediately, much to his and Liz’s initial relief. However, the vet almost immediately told them to calm down, as there was still a chance things could get worse. Suffice to say this made the couple even more nervous, with both beginning to worry that a venomous creature had bitten John.
John continued to relax and began to feel better. However, the vet still didn’t want them to leave the office just in case they needed to run any more tests. However, after a bit, the vet burst into the room and bellowed, “It’s definitely a snake, but we have to hurry!” Things just continued to get more and more harrowing.
After hanging up, the vet made a phone call in hushed tones and made another starting pronouncement to the couple. He first ensured that the snake was still contained, then told John, “We have to get you to the hospital.” So it was back to the hospital or John, Liz, and his mysterious bite again.
John, Liz, and the vet – with the snake in tow – arrived ago the hospital, and the vet immediately asked for Dr. Andrew. After being told that Doctor Andrew – whoever that was – was with a patient, the trio just sat and waited, much to John’s increasing chagrin.
After an hour of waiting – with John becoming increasingly nervous and the vet becoming increasingly agitated – things finally boiled over; the vet approached the hospital receptionist and told her John’s “life was on the line.” Soon after, the main door began to open, moving John and Liz on to the next step on this wild journey.
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