double adder bite
I was planning to go to the Hampshire Country Show, with my baby son in the baby sling, I arrived at the entrance to find that it was seven quid to get in. Well, I wasn't paying that to go and see some oversized veg, checked shirts and prize bullocks, so I wandered into the undergrowth, trying to find a mother and baby sized gap in the fence. Little did I know what was lurking in the undergrowth...then it struck, I heard two hissing sounds and felt a searing pain on the back of both my calves. I had been bitten by an adder. Either once by an adult adder or I had stepped on a nest and been bitten by two baby snakes. In a panic, I ran back to the gate "help, I have been bitten by an adder... maybe two... is there a St. Johns Ambulance in there that I can go to? (Tinking to myself that this was a stunt I could play next time I wanted to get in somewhere for free). Once I was in there the St. Johns Ambulance people said "don't be silly, it's just a horse fly bite" "but it's got two fangy marks and there are two, one on each calf, look!" But they just said sit down dear, here put an ice pack on it. Needless to say, I lived to tell the tale and stumbled home, still in quite a panic (my son, however, slept through the whole thing). I rang the doctor when I got in, and he said "Yes it sounds like an adder bite. If you aren't dead by now you are going to be fine!" That was reassuring.
(themothers, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 18:08, Reply)