Thread: Snake 1, Guy 0

Originally Posted by 87County

depending on how heavily you accidently stood on him/her, you may well have given him a fatal injury,

I'm surprised the snake even noticed Guy standing on it! Think he was lucky that the snake didnt accidentally eat him!

Must be the week

Minime had a saw left foot on Saturday evening, swelled up some thing horrible so 8pm off to medical. spider bite they reckon. all came good on its own

then blow me down i pick him up from daycare yesterday and he limping a bit on the other foot. 7 pm its all swollen up again, of to medical again, another spider bite.

hes a little bugger with nature, curious as a cat, sticks his nose in to any thing. funny thing is he has handles one of the 5 blue tongues that live around our house, how he caught it i have no idea, but it seems quite happy in his hands until i turned up.

Pete - a garden fork how close to the toad were you, you need to invest in some golf clubs

Thanks All for the comments, the bite itself didn't hurt - more just a fright. The snake is fine, as said I'm sure that me standing on it is not going to hurt it. We have snakes round here quite often and fairly sure this one lives under the verandah

And Pete it was 2 members of the GCLRO in hospital in 1 day. Hapenned monday night for me also

Hey mate....look at it this way...at least you have some company now....wow chicka bow wow ,

Regards

Stevo

Hmmm - I don't like snakes at all. Lucky it wasn't a poisonous one.

How keen are you to go back into the study.......?

Originally Posted by spudboy

How keen are you to go back into the study.......?

I'm sitting about 2 foot from where it bit me

Hi,
Foolishly, I once tried playing Harry Butler with a large carpet python, trying to get his head out of the shadows to get a photo.
Eventually the snake spat the dummy and bit me on the hand for my troubles.
Well the old ticker went into palpitations, the hands got cold and sweaty and I felt cold and listless.
Yep - classic shock symptoms.
I kept telling my self "it ain't venomous, it's a python, snap out of it or you will be in serious trouble".
Checking the wound on the hand was reassuring, yep, no fang marks, just a row of needle sharp holes from about 3 bites in one swipe in a fraction of a second.
Man! was he fast.
Wiping the blood away, I was rewarded with several small delicate and razor sharp teeth still embedded in the flesh of my palm - "Yea! definitely a non venomous python - I feel better already."
I'm a little less bold and demanding with my slithery friends now.
cheers

People do still die from snake bite.

It is less than a decade ago that my uncle was bitten by a snake, a brown, I think.

He got to hospital pretty quickly and a bit later, his wife was rung by the hospital to say he would be home soon.

Then just 10 minutes or so later, she got a call to say he was being transferred to another hospital. Very soon after that she got a call to say he had died.

I couldn't believe that someone who had made it to hospital had died from a snake bite.

Apparently the problem was he was on some sort of medication for blood pressure and the effect of the venom combined with the effect of the medication was fatal.