http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...itten-6-times/
This article is from the San Diego UT (November 8, written by Susan Shroder)
EL CAJON — A 16-year-old El Cajon girl is recovering after being bitten six times by rattlesnakes in a rural area of Jamul while she was distracted and looking at her cellphone for a connection.
Vera Oliphant said Thursday that was visiting her uncle on Oct. 27 when she went up a hill from his house to try to get a phone connection to contact her mother.
She heard rattles just as she stepped into a pile of weeds and twigs. She looked down and saw an adult snake and five baby snakes biting her right foot.
She hobbled back down the hill to her uncle’s house, feeling stabbing pain and numbness. He drove her to Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, where she said medical staff “saved my life.”
She said she had gone into anaphylactic shock twice and lost consciousness four times during the ordeal.
At one point, she saw a “dark tunnel,” a vision described by some with near-death experiences.
“I thought I was going to die,” she said.
She was given 24 bottles of antivenin and was in intensive care until her release on Oct. 30. She’ll return next week to Chaparral High School in Santee, where she is a junior.
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