Gulp!!! Heck Linda that is scary!! I have had some close shaves with snakes, and too close for comfort....especially with the Tiapan in our garden shed.

In the Druid oracle snakes mean Transformation, Healing and Lífe Energy.

It offers healing and transformation. Its ability to glide into the dárkness through crevices in the rocks connects it to the Under or Otherworld, and the realm of death. It is the totem animal of the Earth Goddess, and also the Sky Father Sun God, and represents our ability to die and be reborn. The energy that enables us to be born on éarth is sexual energy, but this also necessitates our death. Befriending adder or snake powér wíll enable you to journey through life gracefúlly and magically, shedding your old life easily when the time cómes -  whether that old life be of the physícal body or of a stage in this present incarnation.

From that I think there may be change on the way for you Linda....

Pen