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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Man may face amputation after Walmart snakebite

Snakebite victim home, weighs lawsuit
Jeriel Joiner, the Palm Coast man who was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake in a St. Augustine Walmart store on Tuesday, was released from the hospital Friday evening. Joiner's fiancee, Rhiannon Gross, said doctors could do little for him except monitor his condition and recovery after the pair opted against a second attempt to administer an antivenin treatment that caused a nearly fatal allergic reaction Tuesday.


Man may face amputation after Walmart snakebite

By HEATHER SCOFIELD
Staff Writer
ST. AUGUSTINE -- A trip to a store to buy a fern left a Palm Coast couple facing one of the most difficult decisions of their lives Thursday.

It was all part of an ordeal that began Tuesday after Jeriel Joiner, 27, was bitten by a baby pygmy rattlesnake while shopping at a St. Augustine Walmart.

Joiner and his fiancee, Rhiannon Gross, 30, were forced to decide whether Joiner would undergo a second $30,000 emergency medical treatment after the first such attempt nearly killed him Tuesday night.
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Man may face amputation after Walmart snakebite

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