Three weeks after a Texas girl stated a hawk dropped a squirming snake onto her arm – after which attacked her to retrieve its prey ‒ Peggy Jones says she nonetheless has nightmares.
Jones, 64, stated she was mowing her garden together with her tractor on July 25 in Silsbee, Texas, close to the Louisiana border, when a four-foot-long snake dropped out the sky and landed on her arm.
“It wasn’t till moments later I spotted a hawk dropped the snake on me,” she stated.
As Jones shook her proper arm to take away the snake, she stated a hawk flew all the way down to recapture his prey, stabbing Jones’ proper arm with its claws within the course of.
Jones stated the hawk managed to get the snake off of her arm on the fourth attempt to as painful because it was, it may need been a blessing.
“When I look again at it, the hawk was the rationale why I used to be in a position to get the snake off my arm,” Jones stated. “The snake was gripping my arm tight and hissing in my face.”
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Jones’s husband rushed her to the emergency room, the place medical doctors stabilized her situation. She had deep wound cuts from the hawk and delicate bruising from the snake.
She additionally had venom on her glasses from the snake however none acquired in her eyes.
“It’s been three weeks later and I nonetheless have nightmares from that day. I cried each time I informed this story within the first two weeks after it occurred,” Jones stated. “The ache now’s getting higher however the reminiscence of that day is not.”
Jones stated she will be able to’t use her proper arm after the incident. Her husband, kids, and grandchildren help her in each day duties resembling cooking, cleansing, laundry and procuring.
Her greatest worry is one in every of her open wounds getting contaminated since she has synthetic knees.
“I’ve to wrap my wound very nicely and be very cautious,” Jones stated. “If my wounds get contaminated its an opportunity I must get new knees once more since venom travels to the weakest a part of your physique.”
