Woman at LongHorn Steakhouse bit several times by copperhead snake

A Virginia woman was out to eat at LongHorn Steakhouse with her 13-year-old son, her boyfriend, friends and family when she was bit several times by a copperhead snake. Rachel Myrick said in a report to WTVR she was in the restaurant’s foyer when she was bit three times on the foot and toes by a roughly 8-inch-long snake. Myrick, who was wearing sandals, says she originally thought she had been stung by a bee until the pain started to intensify. “I freaked out,” Myrick told The Free Lance-Star. She started yelling, “I got bit! I got bit!” Her boyfriend, Michael Clem, immediately called for help. “There was no questions was it was,” Clem said to WTVR of the copperhead snake bite. Paramedics arrived on the scene and Myrick was taken to Mary Washington Hospital for treatment. She was later released, but the bites – which caused swelling in her knee, hip, and left thigh – left her facing a three-month road to recovery...more