A 7-year-old girl is speaking out just days after she was bitten by a snake while playing with friends in a Deerfield Beach park.
Daniella Cabrera was playing hide-and-seek at Quiet Waters Park at night when she had the frightening encounter.
She and a friend were hiding in the dark behind a cabin that backed up to a pond when she bent down and suddenly felt a sharp pain on her wrist.
"I only saw it in the dark," Cabrera said. "I thought it was a worm, that's all I thought but everyone else said it was a snake."
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She ran directly to her father, and she was rushed to the hospital.
At the hospital, it was determined she'd been bitten by a venomous water moccasin.
"It was really scary," Cabrera said. "I knew there was worms out and like snakes out but…"
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Cabrera was treated but by luck, it happened to be a dry bite, meaning there was no venom.
The 7-year-old said the memory is already in the past.
"I'm happy now," she said.
