I'll never forget the story my first-aid instructor told me about the time he was bitten by a snake.
He was clearing some scrub on his property with a whipper-snipper when he felt a smack on the back of his calf. Thinking at the time that it was just something kicked up by the spinning wire, he kept working for a while until he started feeling a bit tired and decided to take a break and go get a drink.
Sitting in his kitchen, feeling quite tired and sweating away decided to have a shower and started peeling his overalls off. When he got down to his calf he saw the two little puncture marks, and the damp patch in the leg of the overalls where most of the venom has been soaked into the material, and realisation set in. "Oh, crap!"
His wife (also an ambulance worker) immobilised his leg with an inflatable splint, bundled him in the back of the car and set off to the hospital, about 40 minutes away.
The memorable part of the story is that the air-splint had a slow leak in it, and the valve was up near his groin. Thus, passing motorists were treated to an unusual site the three times his wife had to pull over to the side of the freeway, climb into the back seat and blow the splint back up.
Snake bite story
I'll never forget the story my first-aid instructor told me about the time he was bitten by a snake.
He was clearing some scrub on his property with a whipper-snipper when he felt a smack on the back of his calf. Thinking at the time that it was just something kicked up by the spinning wire, he kept working for a while until he started feeling a bit tired and decided to take a break and go get a drink.
Sitting in his kitchen, feeling quite tired and sweating away decided to have a shower and started peeling his overalls off. When he got down to his calf he saw the two little puncture marks, and the damp patch in the leg of the overalls where most of the venom has been soaked into the material, and realisation set in. "Oh, crap!"
His wife (also an ambulance worker) immobilised his leg with an inflatable splint, bundled him in the back of the car and set off to the hospital, about 40 minutes away.
The memorable part of the story is that the air-splint had a slow leak in it, and the valve was up near his groin. Thus, passing motorists were treated to an unusual site the three times his wife had to pull over to the side of the freeway, climb into the back seat and blow the splint back up.