When Rod Sommerville thought he might die after an eastern brown snake
bit him in his backyard in Yeppoon, Central Queensland last month he
decided a final cold beer was in order. The 54-year-old was moving a few pot plants in his yard when the two and
half foot snake nipped him on the finger. Rod's reaction was to grab
his shovel and "whack it on the head". As soon as he was done with the
snake, he called an ambulance, grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat
down.
"I said to myself, if I'm going to cark it I'm going to have a beer,
so I got a Goldie out of the fridge and drank that; 'cause you know
eastern browns are the second most venomous snake in the world," Rod
said Rod's teenage son was on the couch and slept through the whole
thing because Rod didn't want to wake him and make anyone panic. "If you
panic it makes it worse," he said.
Rod was taken straight to the Yeppoon Hospital, but transferred a short
while later to Rockhampton to get the anti-venom. But his ordeal wasn't
over just yet, with Rod suffering an allergic reaction to the
anti-venom. He ended up spending four days in intensive care. Rod still
isn't out of hospital after three weeks. "The reaction nearly killed me
as well, so it was a double whammy," he said. Rod's kidneys were
affected and that's kept him in hospital recovering for weeks.
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