Posted on 08/30/2007 8:30:10 AM PDT by SmithL
TUCSON, Ariz. — A Mrs. America contestant from Tennessee spent about 15 hours in a hospital here after being bitten by a rattlesnake at a hotel.
Christina Ryan of Franklin said she caught sight of a spider on an outside staircase at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort while walking to a rehearsal last Sunday morning for this weekend’s competition.
She jumped away from it and a rattlesnake bit her right foot, just above her toe.
As time went on, Ryan said the pain got worse. She spent about 15 hours in the hospital and received 10 vials of antivenin before being released.
Ryan said she’s working on walking in heels on the swollen foot.
Interviews for the Mrs. America contestants will be held Saturday with preliminary competition Sunday and the finals on Sept. 5.
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Where’s Dick Morris when you need him?
Son4 got bitten by a rattler in TN 2 years ago. Did you think there weren’t any there??
As the lyric goes, “I don’t like spiders & snakes; & that ain’t what it takes to love me, you fool, fool.” [Maybe her Volunteer suiter should have tried another angle]
JIM STAFFORD
DAVID BELLAMY
I remember when Mary Lou said, "You wanna walk me home from school?"
Well I said yes I do
She said I don't have to go right home
And I would kinda like to be alone some if you would I said me too
And so we took a stroll and wound up down by the swimming hole
And she said do what you want to do
I got silly and found a frog in the water by a hollow log And I shook it at her and I said, "This frog's for you." She said,
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I wanna be loved by you
Well I think of that girl from time to time, I call her up when I got a dime
I say, "Hello baby. She say, "Ain't you cool."
Said, "Do you remember when, and would you like to get together again"
She said "I'll see you after school"
I was shy and so for awhile most of my love was touch and smile
So she said, "Come on over here."
I was nervous as you might guess
Still looking for something to slip down her dress
And she said, "Let's make it perfectly clear." She said
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I wanna be loved by you
Hey I’m just here for the pics! lol
That’s what Tennessee whiskey’s for.
Dick Morris will come over and suck her foot if need be.
The spider and the snake were working together, I just know it. Mwahahahaha.
This story missed the part about being saved by Mrs. Idaho . Boy , your senator does one little thing and ....
absolutely. hardly a week goes by that I don't get bit by a copperhead or a water moccasin. The rattlers usually only bite tourists though.
Earlier in the year I had a cow that got snake bit,where
she was hit it looked like a large watermellon under the skin.
We`re rooting for Mrs Tn,her lucks gotta pick up after this.
She was in Arizona when this happened.
“hardly a week goes by that I don’t get bit by a copperhead or a water moccasin. The rattlers usually only bite tourists though.”
LOL.
Just a couple months ago I killed an Eastern Diamondback on my front stoop. I’m in MS but when I looked it up, I was surprised to see they were indigenous to such a large area.
LOL. Reminds me of that song,
“I don’t like spiders and snakes, and that ain’t what it takes to love me . . . “
Seriously, I’m tough as nails for a girl, but a spider or snake freaks me out. Last year a friend and I picked up my 17 foot canoe and threw it over our heads, then strapped it to the hood of the truck to take to the lake.
When we got to the lake a snake was crawling in the canoe. A little one, garden snake, but it still freaked me out Ewwww.
This happened in Arizona, but we have a lot of copperheads here in Tennessee, and a few timber rattlers.
Oh Diana, I heard on the news that Miss Wisconsin called 9/11 for Miss Tennessee when this happened, Miss Iowa picked the fang out of MT’s foot. We country gals stick together (grin).
Who saved Mrs. Tennessee?
Idaho, Alaska.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295233,00.html
Mrs. Tennessee America Bitten by Rattlesnake, Saved by Mrs. Idaho
Yikes! She’s very lucky to even be walking now, let alone trying to walk in high heels. I have much respect for rattlers having had several close encounters with them when living in So CA.
..Florida has 'coral snakes' that are small, colorful, quite venomous and actually chew on you once they get a hold.
..nasty little critters
Was foot-tapping involved?
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