Outer Banks EMT bitten by venomous snake while walking dog
Ethan White told 10 On Your Side he was walking his dog with his fiancée on a trail in Nags Head Woods Preserve last Saturday morning when it happened.
'I like, kind of went off the trail to tie my shoe, and I bent over and never saw it until I was bitten on the hand, and I kind of like, staggered backwards,' White said. 'It's kind of like when you cut yourself with a sharp knife. You don't notice it, [then] it'll start throbbing later.'
White snapped a picture of the snake, which doctors believe is a cottonmouth.
His fiancée rushed him over to the nearby hospital, where a long road to recovery officially began. He said he initially had an allergic reaction to the type of antivenom they gave him, so they had to take a different approach.
'They sent me to Norfolk, and where I got, I think, four treatments of CroFab, which is another type of antivenom,' White said. 'There, I did two days in the ICU (intensive care unit) and one day in a med surg unit, and I got released.'
The advanced EMT and former volunteer firefighter is usually on the other end of these types of situations. He is now been at home working to get better since the bite, and is seeing a hand specialist Friday to figure out a treatment plan going forward
'At the moment, I can articulate the base joint, and then the rest of it doesn't really move,' White said. 'Depending on what they find there will be whether or not we go in for surgery, or we kind of let it run its course.'
His mom started a for the first responder as he works through this time. It's raised over $12,000 so far, and White said he is grateful for the support.
'The community has really come together and really helped me and my family out a lot during this process,' White said. 'So, I don't have enough words to say thank you,' White said.
He is currently studying to become a paramedic, but he said this snake bite won't slow him down.
'I will say one of our chiefs has one less a finger, and he does his job to a T,' White said. 'So I'm sure if worse comes to worst, I lost a finger, I'd probably still be able to find ways to do the job.'
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