The medical staff put a compression on the bite, which you’re supposed to do with snakes that have venom like a mamba. "I thought, that's the last time I'm seeing my dad," he said. He remembers a tough goodbye at that point. Gifford was still conscious when he got the hospital, but because of COVID-19 visitor restrictions at the time, only his mother could go inside. He said when you own a venomous reptile, you are supposed to inform the medical team and toxicologist near you in case of a bite. Gifford admits there were necessary steps he didn't take to prepare for a bite. His body already tingling, Gifford called poison control and tried to call UNC Rex Hospital to let them know he was coming.
Running to his parents, he said, "Guys, I just got tagged. Gifford got the mamba back in its enclosure and started racing against time. After seeing two fang marks, his first thought was, "Well, I'm dead." "They’re incredibly smart, and he was stretched all the way out so he had gapped 7 feet in pretty much a heartbeat," Gifford said. Gifford said while he was removing the mamba from a snake hook, the mamba used a nearby door for leverage and smacked his hand. "I could have listened to that body behavior more." "It was a day where he didn’t want to come out of the enclosure," he said. He had seen that every enclosure I encountered with I had pulled that snake out," he said. The 7-foot snake's cage was the very last, which wasn’t a good idea, Gifford said. "I had left the four mambas for last," he said. Gifford said he made a mistake early on that may have contributed to his bite. He removed each snake from its enclosure and then cleaned out their cages.
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In March 2021, Gifford was doing a full clean of his dozens of snake enclosures. Green mamba venom is known to kill people within an hour. Gifford admitted to WRAL Investigates in an interview that he was probably not skilled enough to have this snake in his home, especially because the one he had was previously caught in the wild.
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