[pct-l] Snake Bites

[CMountainDave@aol.com (CMountainDave@aol.com)]

In a message dated 4/18/02 11:35:03 AM, binghamstehekin@starband.net writes:

<< An MD-friend of mine (Internal Medicine) told me he has only encountered 
two snake-bite cases in his entire career. Interestingly enough, he said,  
both were from the SAME snake but about a year apart. It seems like this gal 
had a pet rattler and both persons bitten were drunk boy friends who were 
trying to impress her with their bravery around snakes. Drunken men get 
really dumb!

 >>

When a friend of mine sprained her ankle and had to be helicoptered out, the 
rescue people told her that her injury was the most common accident in the 
Grand Canyon. The second most common injury? They told her that snake bites 
between the index finger and thumb, because drunken guys in their twenties 
tried to impress their friends by catching a rattle snake