Lesson Learned

[wacojoe]

...The incident happened May 27 as Milo and Jennifer Sutcliffe were doing yard work at their home near Lake Corpus Christi.

Jennifer said her husband found a 4-foot rattlesnake and hacked off its head with a shovel. As he bent down to pick up the remains, he was bitten by the severed head. 'Which in that case since there is no body, it released all its venom into him at that point, so he had a lot of venoms,' Jennifer said to KIII-TV.

Jennifer said she called 911 and began driving her husband the 45 miles to a Corpus Christi hospital.

He began having seizures, losing his vision and bleeding internally and was airlifted the rest of the way.

The woman shared that doctors informed her that her husband may not pull through.

Jennifer said her husband needed 26 doses of antivenom, whereas a normal patient gets two to four.

He's in stable condition but his kidney function is still weak.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...head-dies.html

Lesson? Don’t be caught dead doing yard work.

[Honda]

Better lesson stay the hell away from rattlesnakes

[TxMusky]

I have always warned the kids to avoid the head after killing a snake. When I kill them that is the part that I get rid of first.

[mgrist]

Used to catch live venomous snakes for the serpentarium in Miami as a kid, got like a dollar a foot for them or something like that. I couldn't sell them I was just a 12 year old kid but the adult at the pet store could and he always gave me my money. I never caught a rattlesnake, never even saw one that I can remember. Used to catch a lot of the little pygmy rattlesnakes, moccasins, copper heads and got a premium for Coral snakes. That was so much fun as a kid!