And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Years ago I had a Nocona Boot poster with this on it.
Got bit by a rattler 20 Aug '20. Medevaced (by helo) my ass {where bitten) and rest of me to Tucson for subsequent Great care and treatment. First 3 days I was comatose, then 4 days in ICU. Close call. God Bless Copper Queen Hospital's Dr. Yarnish and TMC teams that saved me. She used all the antivenin they had. I am grateful.
Came within about 2 inches of treading on a sleeping Western Diamondback above Los Angeles. A guy who stepped on a similar sized snake (about 4-5 feet) died on the Loma Linda Venom ER show a few years later. Scared the living shit out of me, and I didn't know I could jump backwards on one foot so far.
I was hiking in the foothills south of Denver with my mom a few years back. We'd been warned there were rattlesnakes along that route. I never saw or heard anything, but a mile or so in, Mom mentioned passing a snake a few feet off and above the trail which had been rattling. Like I said, I never heard a thing. I was listening to the ringing in my ears. I've stayed the hell away from places with rattlesnakes since.
I had a buddy who stepped on a large copperhead's head once. He said it took nearly an hour to get up the nerve to unwind it from his boot. It was during a land navigation exercise and we had to point him in the direction of the start/finish line. He was emotionally fried.
Stepped on a water moccasin and had that happen once. Stepped on its' head with my other boot and pushed it into the mud until it stopped moving.
My son got bit by a rattler when he was about 15 while mountain biking. Road off the trail about 2 miles to a waiting ambulance. He was lucky, it was a dry bite. His leg got swollen, but no need for anti-venom.
I grew up in Nocona. There is a whole series of those posters depicting rugged individuals. Wish I kept the ones I used to have.
ReplyDeleteMaybe more of us need to buy the boots...we are now in snake country.
ReplyDeleteI did two!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGot bit by a rattler 20 Aug '20. Medevaced (by helo) my ass {where bitten) and rest of me to Tucson for subsequent Great care and treatment. First 3 days I was comatose, then 4 days in ICU. Close call. God Bless Copper Queen Hospital's Dr. Yarnish and TMC teams that saved me. She used all the antivenin they had. I am grateful.
ReplyDeleteBack when I could wear cowboy boots that was my favorite brand.
ReplyDeleteBoots??? I'mma looking at the knife! Buck 124 to rid yourself of bad things.
ReplyDeleteCame within about 2 inches of treading on a sleeping Western Diamondback above Los Angeles. A guy who stepped on a similar sized snake (about 4-5 feet) died on the Loma Linda Venom ER show a few years later. Scared the living shit out of me, and I didn't know I could jump backwards on one foot so far.
ReplyDeleteI was hiking in the foothills south of Denver with my mom a few years back. We'd been warned there were rattlesnakes along that route. I never saw or heard anything, but a mile or so in, Mom mentioned passing a snake a few feet off and above the trail which had been rattling. Like I said, I never heard a thing. I was listening to the ringing in my ears. I've stayed the hell away from places with rattlesnakes since.
ReplyDeleteI had a buddy who stepped on a large copperhead's head once. He said it took nearly an hour to get up the nerve to unwind it from his boot. It was during a land navigation exercise and we had to point him in the direction of the start/finish line. He was emotionally fried.
ReplyDeleteStepped on a water moccasin and had that happen once. Stepped on its' head with my other boot and pushed it into the mud until it stopped moving.
ReplyDeleteMy son got bit by a rattler when he was about 15 while mountain biking. Road off the trail about 2 miles to a waiting ambulance. He was lucky, it was a dry bite. His leg got swollen, but no need for anti-venom.