Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her family's six-acre property in Silsbee, Tex., on July 25 when a snake and a hawk descended on her at the same time.
With the snake coiled around Jones’s forearm, the hawk stabbed and scraped and clawed her arm as it tried to fly off with its quarry. All the while, the snake, which she estimated was at least four feet long, was constantly striking at her face. It hit her glasses at least a couple of times, chipping an edge and spitting a liquid she suspects was venom.
Finally, the hawk wrestled the snake off her arm and flew away. Jones estimates the attack lasted a few seconds, although “it felt like an eternity.” He headed toward her on his riding mower. When Wendell, 66, got to her and asked what happened, all she could do was cry and scream. The two power walked to their Dodge Ram pickup. Wendell loaded her in, and they drove to an emergency room about 15 minutes away. Calming down, she started to tell her husband what happened.Once they arrived at the hospital, doctors cleaned out Jones’s wounds, bandaged her up, injected her with antibiotics and wrote her a prescription for more to take at home.
Although she still has extensive bruising and open wounds from last month’s attack, her physical injuries are healing. The psychological ones are taking longer. She’s eating less. She’s not sleeping. She described her nightmares from the past couple of weeks as “horrific.”“Everything is off,” Jones said, adding that she doesn’t “think it’ll ever be totally normal again. I think I’ll always have some fears.”Because of the psychological toll, she’s taking a break from mowing.
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