"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

> All these scary snake stories, and out of all of you, looks like I'm
> the only one ever actually bit by one. Hmmm.
>


Nope :-)

Back in '76 I was on an (Army) Exercise near Mingela (Nth Qld). Just
before sunset, and just before it started to rain, I got up to take a
leak, walked about 15 paces, had a leak and then stepped on a snake that
was laying there. Didn't really comprehend what had happened till I got
back to the other guys and said "I think I just got bitten!!"

10mins later, I'm on a Kiowa being Casevac'd out, spewing my guts up.

Landed at Charters Towers Training Hospital, and I thought I had died
and gone to heaven. I was surrounded by young trainee nurses :-)

Spent 5 days there, 4 in ICU, and apparently I died a couple of times. I
didn't know much about it, just what I read on my charts before I
discharged myself to go back to work :-)

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

'Enjoy today, it was paid for by a veteran'