The herpers who happen to live in South Florida are in good shape because the Miami Dade Fire Department runs a program called "Venom One". They stock a wide variety of antivenom and are trained in its administration.
Here in the Midsouth/midwest (Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana) they tend to call upon a man named Jim Harrison (who is of debatable merit amongst hot keepers) and take all his antivenom for venomous bites. That's never fun.
I am not a hot keeper, but I was doing the preliminary stuff to keep cobras when the Kentucky ban went through... I had already spoken with my doctor, hospital, and started the FDA paperwork to import cobra antivenom. I was ready to send it out when the ban went through.
Color me angry.
