Joe Blake strikes back

[viewmont1071]

Viewmont 100 + ....... snakes 1

[serendipityricho]

Geez--are you going for treatment or just laugh it off?

[viewmont1071]

Last Friday after a wild night me and a mate were checking his and my fences. Got back to his place and after a few ales I noticed a little blood and some swelling on my leg. It just looked like a lantana  a wait a while or corkwood scratch

...there had been some jumping jacks in one place we stopped to pull some debris of the fence so I wasn't sure if I had been stung or not.

Throbbing a bit Friday night...anyways Saturday morning my leg was swollen from the mid shin down and a little red.

I fully expected the swelling to disappear by Saturday arvo...anyways it hadn't. Had a good look at the area late Saturday and noticed the fang marks and back bite.

Woooopsss.....decided if the red swelling started to travel above my knee I would get myself off to Hospital. By Sunday

arvo the swelling had moved from my lower leg to my foot........Tuesday I went to the doctor and sure enough she said after reviewing the marks 

"is there any chance you may have been bitten by a snake"...... So I PROBABLY got bitten by a snake,Estimated 4 f

Footer or so  by the distance between the fang marks and the shape of the back bite

(the type ie black brown brindle cannot be identified now..apparently)

The Doc gave me some antibiotics as I am a little prone to Cellulitis.

I didnt feel the bite at all nor did we see any snakes on our excursion.

Although the leg was probably the sorest Saturday Sunday when it was swollen up (and I felt pretty lethargic)... it is still

bloody sore just at the fang marks today.

I am quite experienced in the bush and laughed off the initial suggestions that I had been bitten by a snake.

I thought I would post my tale as I had poo pooed other stories of people being bitten and not seeing the snake nor

realizing they had been bitten.

If you see two puncture marks and corresponding back bite marks then do not be a gooose like me and think you have not been bitten.

Bandage and immobilze the area and ring an Ambulance if you are alone or get somebody to drive you off to Hospital..

[viewmont1071]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

Geez--are you going for treatment or just laugh it off?

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Took those this morning Richo.... I should have taken it more seriously last Saturday when others started to suggest that I had been bitten by a snake.......

 As I posted above better safe than sorry... will put it dwon to luck and dumb blind faith that it did not become more

serious

[serendipityricho]

Glad you survived the ordeal.

With the area you live in-you are lucky its the first time....................Richo.

[azureline**]

Lucky!

what is a back bite?

[debra9275]

Gosh Viewmont!

[viewmont1071]

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@azureline** wrote:

Lucky!

what is a back bite?

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The little pic highlights the fang marks. The lower one is more prominent then the higher one. It was hard to get a good shot of both the marks at once. In the big pic one fang

mark can be made out on the right hand side of the sun reflection, the other is just above it although it is hard to see.

On the left hand side of the sun refelection in the large shot there are five little dots resembling mozzie bites on the lower side in a slightly curved (bite like) arrangement and a couple of smaller on that curve the other way on the top side.These are the back bite marks.

The lower teeth marks back and front are deeper than the upper ones

On Friday just after it happened  there was a little blood in a reasonably straight lines that connected all the lower puncture marks and it looked to me like a lantana scratch.

It was only after a couple of days when the little marks started to heal with the "mozzie bite look" that the rear bite patterns became more obvious and were pretty symetrical to what (probably) are the fang marks

[punch*drunk]

Crikey!! I thought for sure you'd feel something like that, there are lots of snakes around here and our grass is way too long at the moment. I think I'll be pushing hubby to get the ride on fixed and get the placed cleaned up, imagine if that happened to a kid and they didnt feel it!

Last encounter I had with a snake was when hubby accidently flicked one at me with a shovel full of mulch. He was being a smart alec, shovelling the mulch in my direction, and didnt see the snake in amongst it. Lucky for me he accidently chopped its head of when he dug into the much.

[freddie*rooster]

A 59-year-old woman has died after a snake bite at her Glen Oak home on Saturday left her on life support.

Read more

http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/1888943/snake-bite-kills-woman/