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Rattlesnake bite claims Oklahoma Marine’s leg
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:00 am
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:00 am
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (KFOR) – An Oklahoma Marine is recovering from a ghastly wound. Doctors had to amputate his lower leg after he was bitten by a rattlesnake near Ft. Sill in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
Despite the horrific injury caused by the poisonous venom, he is alive thanks to two of his buddies.
Marines Taylor Quackenbush and Matthew Holliday were with their friend, Anthony Kemp, hiking through the rugged hills of the refuge when Kemp was bitten on the calf by an angry rattler.
It seemed to come out of nowhere; no warning rattles at all.
Quackenbush describes what happened next. “I called 911. My other friend helped him walk a little bit. He was in pain. But he was being really tough about it, being extremely brave.”
Lt. Holliday knew it was a serious bite when he looked at the fang marks on Kemp’s leg. “It was bleeding pretty profusely.”
The two Marines got Kemp down the hill and to a park ranger. From there, Kemp was rushed into the hospital and into surgery. But Holliday and Quackenbush say not to call them heroes.
“It’s just something we’re kinda taught to do,” says Lt. Holliday. “Be there for each other for something like this, or anything in life.”
The rattlesnake attack happened back on Feb. 7th. After the surgery to remove his lower leg, Kemp has been getting stronger in the hospital. He has been smiling and joking with his friends, which comes as no surprise to Holliday.
“He’s a Marine. He’s a fighter.”
This post was edited on 2/20/15 at 2:17 am
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:14 am to Jim Rockford
On a related note, I hate rattlesnakes.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:17 am to Jim Rockford
What do they do with the amputated limbs?
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:20 am to Walking the Earth
there was near record hi temps around then in TX/OK. Snakes probably came out of hibernation and all sorts of confused and aggressive.
Snakebites in that part of the country in winter have to be astronomically rare.
Snakebites in that part of the country in winter have to be astronomically rare.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 12:25 am to Walt OReilly
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What do they do with the amputated limbs?
Probably incinerate them with all the other medical waste.
IIRC there was a Civil War general who lost a leg and he had them preserve it in alcohol and took it home with him.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 6:29 am to Jim Rockford
We had a soldier bitten by a rattlesnake in Fort Hood one year - we were just a hundred yards from the road or whatever, took him straight to the troop medical clinic (had him there less than 10, 15 minutes after the bite - and within 10 minutes or so he was in a helicopter headed for the main hospital) - he was still kind of messed up 2 weeks later. He lost part of his calf.
Rattlers are nothing to mess around with. We never heard this snake until it struck and it got away before we could kill it.
Rattlers are nothing to mess around with. We never heard this snake until it struck and it got away before we could kill it.
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