[Texasbelle]

When the littlest Belle was about 4 years old, he was bitten by a copperhead at our pond. Scary thing was he didn't know he had been bitten and we didn't know until the next morning when his foot was very, very swollen. Even then it was first thought to be a spider bite because you could only spot one puncture wound. On day two of the event it began spontaneously bleeding from the wound, and on day three there began to be a little tissue break down around the wound. As the swelling went down you could see very clearly the second puncture wound and that it was actually a snake bite. The only other symptom he had was that he just didn't "feel well". He almost acted as though he had the flu and we treated him as such. My husband during this same week treated a man who just as fate would have it lived up the road from us. He too was bitten by a copperhead and didn't know it. He developed the same problem with bleeding but his was more significant and required medical intervention.

We pieced together what happened to our son. My husband and he had been fishing and young belle was wearing rubber rain boots. The snake must have been at the waters edge and tapped him through the boots but just barely.

This story is how I have developed my deep fear of snakes. They can bite you and you don't even know it!!!