A Tremendous Surviving Story of a Rattlesnake Biting Victim# Animals - 动物园
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On July 21, 2002, just after my 13th birthday, I was bitten by a Northern
Pacific rattlesnake (the snake was originally identified as a Western
Diamondback rattlesnake, but that species is not found near Yosemite). I was
located on a trail in a hiking area near Yosemite National Park, California
. The bite occurred when I was sitting on a small boulder at a distance of 4
.5 miles from the trailhead with my cabin group at camp. I had my arms
dangling at my side, and a 5 foot long rattlesnake bit me in the middle of
my left palm.
From this point, an amazing rescue took place, taking 4 hours to transport
me the 4.5 miles to the trailhead. The camp director had previously called
the hospital, and a helicopter was waiting at the trailhead. During the 30
minute helicopter ride I was going in and out of consciousness, having
trouble keeping my eyes open. We arrived at the Modesto, CA hospital, where
the doctor in the emergency room decided that my case was too severe to
treat at that medical center. He told me this, which was the last thing I
heard before going unconscious.
Although I was unconscious for approximately the next 24 hours, I have heard
about the following events from my parents.
I was taken from the Modesto hospital to the UC Davis Medical Center in
Sacramento, the trauma center for Northern California. My snake bite was
determined to be too severe for Modesto to deal with. Starting at the time
that I left the Modesto hospital and over the course of the next day or two,
I was given 30 vials of antivenin (also called antivenom). At the UC Davis
hospital I underwent a fasciotomy, which involved the doctors cutting open
my arm from the palm up to about the middle of my biceps. This was to
relieve the extreme pressure that had built up in my arm from the
rattlesnake venom, making my arm as hard as a rock until the fasciotomy.
I spent the next 35 days in the UC Davis hospital, had 8 surgeries performed
for cleaning out the dead tissue from my arm, and finally had a skin graft
from my leg to close up my arm, which had remained open for 30 days after
the fasciotomy until the skin graft surgery. That is 10 surgeries in total
at UC Davis.
I was released from the hospital on August 24, 2002, had 4 months of intense
occupational therapy, and flew to Duke University Medical Center in North
Carolina for a follow-up surgery. This was a vascular flap surgery, during
which they took a chunk of skin and muscle from my back, attached its blood
vessels to the ones in my arm using microsurgery, and then stitched it to my
arm. Although 2 emergency surgeries were required within 24 hours on
account of blood loss, the vascular flap was a success, and after 6 more
months of occupational therapy, my hand had had a significant improvement in
mobility from when I left UC Davis and could move each finger only 2-3
millimeters.
My hand now has fully mobility and is about 80% as strong as it was before,
thanks to my Dad and I resuming our rock climbing after a 1 year break due
to the lack of strength in my left hand. I use it for about 90% of the
things I used to do with my left hand (I am right handed). 13 surgeries, $
700,000 worth of helicopter flights, surgeries, and hospital stays (paid by
my insurance of course), and 20 months later, I am very happy with the
outcome of this experience and my good fortune of getting through all this
without any significant loss.
http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/index.htm
On July 21, 2002, just after my 13th birthday, I was bitten by a Northern
Pacific rattlesnake (the snake was originally identified as a Western
Diamondback rattlesnake, but that species is not found near Yosemite). I was
located on a trail in a hiking area near Yosemite National Park, California
. The bite occurred when I was sitting on a small boulder at a distance of 4
.5 miles from the trailhead with my cabin group at camp. I had my arms
dangling at my side, and a 5 foot long rattlesnake bit me in the middle of
my left palm.
From this point, an amazing rescue took place, taking 4 hours to transport
me the 4.5 miles to the trailhead. The camp director had previously called
the hospital, and a helicopter was waiting at the trailhead. During the 30
minute helicopter ride I was going in and out of consciousness, having
trouble keeping my eyes open. We arrived at the Modesto, CA hospital, where
the doctor in the emergency room decided that my case was too severe to
treat at that medical center. He told me this, which was the last thing I
heard before going unconscious.
Although I was unconscious for approximately the next 24 hours, I have heard
about the following events from my parents.
I was taken from the Modesto hospital to the UC Davis Medical Center in
Sacramento, the trauma center for Northern California. My snake bite was
determined to be too severe for Modesto to deal with. Starting at the time
that I left the Modesto hospital and over the course of the next day or two,
I was given 30 vials of antivenin (also called antivenom). At the UC Davis
hospital I underwent a fasciotomy, which involved the doctors cutting open
my arm from the palm up to about the middle of my biceps. This was to
relieve the extreme pressure that had built up in my arm from the
rattlesnake venom, making my arm as hard as a rock until the fasciotomy.
I spent the next 35 days in the UC Davis hospital, had 8 surgeries performed
for cleaning out the dead tissue from my arm, and finally had a skin graft
from my leg to close up my arm, which had remained open for 30 days after
the fasciotomy until the skin graft surgery. That is 10 surgeries in total
at UC Davis.
I was released from the hospital on August 24, 2002, had 4 months of intense
occupational therapy, and flew to Duke University Medical Center in North
Carolina for a follow-up surgery. This was a vascular flap surgery, during
which they took a chunk of skin and muscle from my back, attached its blood
vessels to the ones in my arm using microsurgery, and then stitched it to my
arm. Although 2 emergency surgeries were required within 24 hours on
account of blood loss, the vascular flap was a success, and after 6 more
months of occupational therapy, my hand had had a significant improvement in
mobility from when I left UC Davis and could move each finger only 2-3
millimeters.
My hand now has fully mobility and is about 80% as strong as it was before,
thanks to my Dad and I resuming our rock climbing after a 1 year break due
to the lack of strength in my left hand. I use it for about 90% of the
things I used to do with my left hand (I am right handed). 13 surgeries, $
700,000 worth of helicopter flights, surgeries, and hospital stays (paid by
my insurance of course), and 20 months later, I am very happy with the
outcome of this experience and my good fortune of getting through all this
without any significant loss.
http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/index.htm
