{"id":66,"date":"2004-06-21T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","slug":"june_21_2004_snakebite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"June 21, 2004 SNAKEBITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to Henry barking\u2026.at nothing. An hour later in the car<br \/>\nheading toward Houston I glanced over my shoulder and thought\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHenry\u2019s maken\u2019 faces again! (Something he does now and then in the back seat to amuse himself and me.)<br \/>\nThe funny face turned out to be a huge swollen left lip with two small puncture marks centered in the swell. Frantic calls to 411 and a local vet (should we call 911?) found us at Baytown Animal Hospital and a confirmation of my\u00a0fears. \u201cYep, David\u00a0your dogs been snake bit. Might have been a copperhead or water moccasin, not many rattlers round these parts\u2026. \u201c Two shots, a bottle of antibiotics and $65.00 later we were on our way again. By the next morning the swelling was gone and Henry was looking like his old self again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/snakebite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to Henry barking\u2026.at nothing. An hour later in the car heading toward Houston I glanced over my shoulder and thought\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHenry\u2019s maken\u2019 faces again! (Something he does now and then in the back seat to amuse himself and me.) The funny face turned out to be a huge swollen left lip with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}