Spanish hairdresser Iris Castroverde, 30, ended up in hospital after she
was bitten on the backside by a bright green and yellow snake when she
went to have a pee in her bathroom. The mother-of-two Iris said: "I had
just been talking to my husband on Skype. I was on my own with the
children because he's away working in the Netherlands. After we finished
talking I wanted to use the bathroom before watching a film on
television. She said that she had just sat down on the toilet when she
heard a strange noise coming from the pipes in the wall at her home in
the town of Naron, in north-western Spain.
She said: "I could hear something behind the wall and I was trying to
work out what it might be as I hadn't heard it before. After that
everything happened really quickly, I became aware that there was
something moving in the toilet bowl, then I heard a splash and then an
intense pain on my backside.
I stood up with the snake still hanging onto my backside but
then it dropped back into the water, and disappeared back up the pipes
from where it had come." Mrs Castroverde grabbed two bottles of bleach
and put them down the toilet and said she was pretty certain that the
snake had gone by then.
She said: "I flushed the toilet to send the bleach after it but I don't
know if I got it. I guess the snake was about 30 centimetres long, and
once I poured the bleach down the toilet I realised it was probably
poisonous because my backside started to go numb." She said she had then
called an ambulance and arranged for her husband's parents to come and
look after the kids while she was taken to hospital in an ambulance
where she was given several injections to counter the venom from the
snake. A hospital spokesman said: "We found four incisor marks in the
buttock near the perineal area, and we followed standard practice for
snake bites which includes a tetanus and rabies shot as well as
administering an antidote.
"We had to remove the poison from the wound but some of it had spread
into the body and we needed to give her an injection to counter that."
Police and firemen closed the block of flats where Iris lived and
searched for a sign of the snake but after finding nothing allowed
locals back, including kids from a kindergarten on the ground floor of
the building. Iris added: "I still feel really ill from the snake bite
and the injections I got at the hospital. By the time I had arrived at
the hospital I couldn't move my leg at all. I was back at work after 24
hours though because there so much to do, and in any case I can't sit
down at the moment."
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