Buffy Price, co-owner of The Boundary on 66 barbecue restaurant between Luther and Arcadia, Okla., recently was bitten by a poisonous snake while taking out trash at the eatery and hospitalized, reported KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City.
Excerpts from the report:
She looked down saw blood on her foot and a snake scurry away through the grass.
“It struck me and actually bit me twice,” Buffy Price says, “It started welling up; turning colors.”
She could feel the burn of the deadly venom pulsing from her foot to her leg but she managed to drive a few miles home to get her husband Donnie Samara. […]
“[I have] never seen anything swollen like that before in my life and it was already black when we got to the hospital, her foot, her entire foot,” Samara says. “She had black all the way up to her thigh, black marks and bruising. It’s scary.”
KFOR posted a photo of Price’s swollen and discolored foot and ankle. She required about $12,000 of anti-venom to save her life. Doctors think the snake was a copperhead.
Price went back to work at The Boundary in a wheelchair, and was able to stand this week. She said it takes about a month to recover from such bites.
Now that Price is on the road to recovery, Donnie Samara has an eye out for the slithering serpent that took a bite out of his wife.
“I will send you a copy of the wanted poster, I’m going to post it all over the restaurant and they’ll be a reward.
It’d be a nice gesture if y’all went to The Boundary for an extra meal or two to help defray those medical bills. Besides, the barbecue is terrific. It’s open Thursday through Sunday for lunch and dinner, although it tends to run out of food on mid-afternoon Sunday.
I attend First Southern Baptist Church in Luther. Many people from there go to the boundry for lunch afterward.
Their bar-b-que ribs are to die for.