Experience: I inject myself with snake venom

For me, it’s like drinking coffee: it’s an energy boost I have always had a morbid curiosity about snakes. I was born with a love of animals, especially reptiles, and I began drawing snakes at three years old. I caught my first one when I was five and living in Connecticut: it was a small, non-venomous garter snake. Then I began bringing them home and reading about them. My parents tolerated it, and in 1976, when I was 10, they let me have my first boa constrictor.Soon afte