Little Joe says goodbye to Pa, Adam and Hoss.
Posted on 06/09/2015 10:50:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mom and her son had quite the scare when the young boy was bitten by a rattlesnake while walking along a bike trail.
Jaclyn Caramazza, who is nine months pregnant, was anticipating a trip to the hospital sometime this month. But she was expecting the visit for the birth of her newborn, not for a snakebite scare.
On their way back from a stroll on the Folsom Bike Trail, her 4-year-old son Vinny accidentally stepped on something brown. Something coiled up.
“It wasn’t dog poop,” Vinny said.
“I know, it was a snake,” his mom said.
Knowing that something was wrong with her son, Jaclyn tended to the area.
“I’m looking around, and took his shoes off, and lo-and-behold, there were two little puncture marks,” Jaclyn said.
Vinny was bitten by a startled baby rattlesnake.
Within minutes, Vinny’s ankle started to swell and turned purple… the venom spread to his entire leg.
“Mama bear instinct in me decided to suck the venom because that’s what Bonanza does,” Jaclyn said.
But officials advise strongly against that.
“Misconception is lacerate between the two points and suck the venom out,” Chris Stoots, with California Fish and Wildlife, said. “Absolutely don’t do that. Use your basic wound type stuff, soap and water, wash the area, keep it clean and call 911 immediately.”
In your best effort to avoid a snakebite, always wear closed-toed shoes and socks instead of going barefoot or wearing sandals.
Also, don’t provoke the snake or it could attack you. If it does, call 911 first.
Luckily, the venom Jaclyn tried to suck out of Vinny’s leg didn’t spread to her or her unborn son.
As for Vinny, he’s recovering well. From now on, the family will be a little more cautious.
“Being more aware of our surroundings and putting up some things in our backyard to keep the snakes out and counting our blessings,” she said.
You can get more information on rattlesnake safety, here.
Translation: call 911 and then provoke the SOB.
The first thing to do when you’re bitten by a snake, spider, insect, dog or practically anything else and probably the most important is to wash the wound with warm soap and water. In this case she wasn’t around anywhere to do that but the last thing to do is try the old “suck out the venom” that you see in movies.
That was just the shrooms kickin’ in.
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Look for snake boy to be born in a few months
There are a number of Cougars in NY as well. I guess that’s why the state tries to deny those as well.
Little Joe says goodbye to Pa, Adam and Hoss.
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