Posts : 1868 Join date : 2009-03-16 Age : 89 Location : Cooktown Qld
Subject: King Brown snake bite'' Thu May 21, 2009 11:05 am
Had an email from Daughter on Groote Island N.T. this morning to addvise that my son on Bickerton Island NT. had been bitten by a King Brown Snake and had been flown to Gove nt. hospital overnight and was under observation. I rang the hospirtal as soon as I got word and he is ok thank goodness , He was only scraped by the snakes teeth not bitten and the venom was sitting on the skin and was not injected. Hospital expect to fly him back to Bickerton Is. today.SUCH A RELIEF.
Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Thu May 21, 2009 11:42 am
glad all is well Gwen
Mary-Anne Unionized Gardener
Posts : 3783 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : The Sunshine State.
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Thu May 21, 2009 12:06 pm
Oh thats terrible Gwen.. And what a relief for you to find out they he is ok. I would not want to fight with one of those snakes..
Gail Gardener
Posts : 1693 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : near Gympie, Qld
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Thu May 21, 2009 12:39 pm
I'm glad that he is ok... he was very lucky!!
otamot Garden Sherpa
Posts : 255 Join date : 2009-03-16 Location : WA
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Thu May 21, 2009 2:55 pm
OMG gwen! you must have been worried sick! thank goodness it didnt sink it's fangs in
Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Fri May 22, 2009 12:41 am
Boy, he was so lucky, Gwen. Have a friend who got bitten on the knuckle from memory, as she picked up a rock to take along to a friend for her rockery, and it was such a slight bite, by an ordinary Brown, that she didn't even feel it. She certainly suffered though, ended up in hospital very sick indeed.
Jennywren Garden Sherpa
Posts : 185 Join date : 2009-04-03 Location : WA's Great Southern
Subject: Re: King Brown snake bite' Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:14 am
What a worry for you, Gwen. How lucky was he that it didn't sink it's fangs in...hope he bought a lotto ticket..
Thu May 21, 2009 11:05 am
glad all is well Gwen 
