National Geographic: King Rattler Page #2
- Year:
- 1999
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there was one thing that
overwhelmingly occupied the whole episode:
I kept thinking, "You're gonna do it.
Don't let this fear get you.
Don't panic. Keep going."
And I set my teeth, I mean,
I literally clenched my teeth,
and I said, "I'm gonna do it."
As the pain spread,
the paralysis set in,
and he still had to paddle
nearly a mile across the channel
separating him from the mainland.
Almost 30 minutes had passed.
Means knew from experience
time was running out.
I had many thoughts of my life
passing, you know, before me,
and most of all I worried about
my children and my wife,
about what they would think
if I would not make it.
And worst of all,
here I was in a canoe,
and suppose that I panicked
in the middle of the water and drowned
and disappeared and they'd never
have known what had happened to me.
So I kept that thing in mind,
"I'm gonna make it.
I'm gonna make it."
And I get all the way to shore.
So when I got on the shore,
I tried to get out of the boat,
I couldn't move my legs.
I was totally paralyzed
from the hips down.
in the boat into the water.
My stuff dumps out into the water.
I pull myself out of the boat,
and didn't bother with it;
it floated off a ways from me.
And I literally clawed
my way to my car.
When I got to the car, I had
a problem getting the key in the door,
and my car happened to have
an idiosyncrasy about opening up,
but fortunately it opened for me.
I dragged myself up into the car,
pulled myself onto the seat.
Then I found out I couldn't drive.
It's a stick shift.
So I had to grab my right leg,
pull it in, put it on the accelerator,
grab my left leg,
pull it in on the clutch.
started the car, gave it some gas.
And I was able to twist and
pull it down and I popped the clutch.
I kept it in first gear and I tore off
down the road towards help
not being able to shift,
so I was in first gear,
going, "Rrrrrr," down the road.
The few minutes it took to drive
to Survey Headquarters
were an endless nightmare.
All I could do is just
turn the key off and let it,
"Chugchugchug" to a stop,
open the door.
And then I had to let myself down
onto the pavement.
The pain was like salt poured
in an open wound,
and worse, he was growing
weaker and weaker.
No longer able to drag himself
over the hot knobby pavement,
he had to roll in order to move,
but he couldn't roll in a straight line.
the burning parking lot to his last,
best chance for survival.
Means reached his destination only to
discover that his ordeal had just begun.
Nearly an hour had passed
since the rattler sank its fangs
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