A man from Idaho needed 54 rounds of antivenom from two different hospitals after a rattlesnake bit him in California, according to his GoFundMe.
Chris Howarth, a husband and father of three, was visiting his parents in California with his family when a rattlesnake bit him twice in his parents’ garden, the GoFundMe stated. He spent six days hospitalized at Oroville Hospital in Oroville, California, where he received 36 rounds of antivenom before doctors airlifted him around 185 miles to Stanford Medical Center, where he received another 18 rounds, per Los Angeles local news outlet KTLA.
Someone created a GoFundMe to help support Howarth and his family as he recovers, and it has raised $4,507 of its $8,000 goal.
The bite comes after rattlesnakes killed three people in California, according to the California Poison Control System (CPCS).
USA TODAY has reached out to the organizer of Howarth’s GoFundMe for more information.
Howarth’s wife thought he was joking
“I got bit twice,” Howarth told SFGATE. “And one of the bites, where it was was kind of a shallow, but the other one got my vein.”
He was bitten on his right leg, according to the news outlet.
Howarth said that his wife, Jenny, thought he was joking, but she and their children started “freaking out” when he showed them his right leg, where he was bitten.
Jenny drove her husband to Oroville Hospital, which was a 15-minute drive from his parents’ house, according to SFGATE. He began showing symptoms by the time he arrived at the hospital.
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