A woman was in for the fright of her life. While going for a walk, she looked down to discover a deadly snake wrapped around her foot.
The incident happened in Australia on December 20. A woman in her 40s had been participating in a geocaching game. She was walking looking for the geocache, when she felt something on her foot.
According to Australian Broadcasting Corporation, it was a deadly snake. She had been in a garden bed and thought a leaf was on her foot. However, upon making it to the road, she realized it was an eastern brown snake. The reptile can kill in just 15 minutes. Snake catcher Cory Kerewaro responded to the situation.
"The minute she realized it was a snake, she stayed still," Kerewaro told 9News.com. "Saturday afternoon's job was without a doubt the most bizarre call I've ever attended. They advised that if the snake could still be present, and they needed it removed before they could safely treat the patient. Ambulance were already on the way."
Deadly Snake Problem
The deadly snake had wedged itself in the loop ont eh woman's shoe.
"The odds of that happening are almost nil. It was absolutely unreal," he wrote. "At that point, everything changed."
"This lady was standing in the middle of the road on a 36-38°C day, with an Eastern Brown Snake stuck in her shoe," he continued on Facebook. "Brown snakes are highly reactive when stressed, and there was nowhere to take cover, nowhere to approach from safely, and no room for error. Any sudden movement could cause the snake to react."
Fortunately, Kerewaro managed to pin the deadly snake and remove the reptile from her shoe. But unfortunately, the woman suspected the reptile bit her multiple times.
"There were some marks on her legs, which they weren't sure whether they were bite marks or just scratches from the bushland," NSW Ambulance acting duty operations manager Linda Evans told ABC. "As a precaution, we treated it as snake bite ... we applied a bandage to the area, a box splint for limb immobilization."
She added, "Our intensive care paramedics carry certain medications that can assist in slowing down the onset of those symptoms ... we make sure the patient is stable and get them as quickly as possible to a hospital that carries an antivenene."
