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FOLSOM, Cali. — A mom and her son had quite the scare when the young boy was bitten by a rattlesnake while walking along a bike trail.
Jaclyn Caramazza, who is nine months pregnant, was anticipating a trip to the hospital sometime this month. But she was expecting the visit for the birth of her newborn, not for a snakebite scare.
On their way back from a stroll on the Folsom Bike Trail, her 4-year-old son Vinny accidentally stepped on something brown. Something coiled up.
“It wasn’t dog poop,” Vinny said.
“I know, it was a snake,” his mom said.
Knowing that something was wrong with her son, Jaclyn tended to the area.
“I’m looking around, and took his shoes off, and lo-and-behold, there were two little puncture marks,” Jaclyn said.
Vinny was bitten by a startled baby rattlesnake.
Within minutes, Vinny’s ankle started to swell and turned purple… the venom spread to his entire leg.
“Mama bear instinct in me decided to suck the venom because that’s what Bonanza does,” Jaclyn said.
FOLSOM, Cali. — A mom and her son had quite the scare when the young boy was bitten by a rattlesnake while walking along a bike trail.
Jaclyn Caramazza, who is nine months pregnant, was anticipating a trip to the hospital sometime this month. But she was expecting the visit for the birth of her newborn, not for a snakebite scare.
On their way back from a stroll on the Folsom Bike Trail, her 4-year-old son Vinny accidentally stepped on something brown. Something coiled up.
“It wasn’t dog poop,” Vinny said.
“I know, it was a snake,” his mom said.
Knowing that something was wrong with her son, Jaclyn tended to the area.
“I’m looking around, and took his shoes off, and lo-and-behold, there were two little puncture marks,” Jaclyn said.
Vinny was bitten by a startled baby rattlesnake.
Within minutes, Vinny’s ankle started to swell and turned purple… the venom spread to his entire leg.
“Mama bear instinct in me decided to suck the venom because that’s what Bonanza does,” Jaclyn said.
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