A Nigerian lady has aroused reactions, and garnered significant attention online as she shares her snake bite ordeal, and how she survived.
She shared this post on her Facebook page, Chisom Pretty. The post was narrated in line with the horrible snake bite that claimed the life of singer, Ifunanya Nwangene.
According to her Facebook post, she narrated that trauma, and fear are the two things that kills victims of snake bite, even before the pain begins.
Still narrating, she said she noticed a sharp pain on her ankle which made her to turn to see where the pain was coming. The pain she was feeling at first wasn’t much, but immediately she saw the snake wriggling away from her leg, the realization automatically increased the pain.
She was traumatized, not because of the pain but because it was a snake bite. When she got to medicine man, he asked her two questions.
“Where did it bite you?”
” Describe the snake “
The medicine man made three or four incisions with a razor on the infected area, and after that, a dark blood started flowing out of the area that was opened.
Part of her post read:
” Ifunanya Nwangene’s death reawakened some past occurrence that I had already forgotten. As someone who was once bitten by a snake, I can tell you that the first things that kill snake bite victims are fear and trauma, even before the actual pain begins.
You know, that realization that something as creepy as a snake came close to you enough and bit you…The imagination alone can throw you off balance. I have also come to realize that 80% of people all over the world have phobia for snakes 🐍 😒.
I can remember vividly that I had a short sharp pain on my ankle, which made me turn to see where that pain was coming from. The initial pain wasn’t so bad, but immediately I saw the snake wriggling and running away from my legs, that realization automatically increased the pain. I was literally traumatized, not because of the pain, but because it was a snake that bit me. I started shouting ‘Agwo ataanumuoo, agwo atagbuo nu muooo’. I was already seeing my ancestors out of fear.
My mum, who was close to me, dropped her Cain and rushed to me. She was scared too. She asked that I show her the snake, I pointed at it, but she was only able to see the tail as the snake ran away. She didn’t know what to do. There was no home nor mobile phone then, help comes from neighbors and passersby.
As fate may have it, a woman was coming from Uhueze village to drop her Orie Ebeagwu goods in our house, so it would be easier for her to take her goods to the market the next day, (we live very close to the market).
She immediately dropped her cassava and asked my mum to get a piece of cloth. They tied that piece of clothes just above the bite wound. She said it would stop the venom from circulating through my body.
She also referred us to a local medicine man in the same Uhueze village, who treats snake bites. It was after about 15 to 20 minutes that I started feeling a lot of pains on my leg. My leg swelled up immediately. I couldn’t walk. It was very painful. My mum had to put me on her back as we journeyed to the home of that medicine man in Uhueze.
The only two questions the man asked was that I show him the bite point on my leg, and that I describe the snake. He only knew my mum as Aunty Ebeagwu (my mum was our primary school teacher). I described the snake. He didn’t ask too many questions, he went straight to treating me.
He made about 3 or 4 incisions with a razor blade on that bite point,l; something that looks like a dark blood started flowing out. Then he brought a black stone and placed it on that bite point. The stone magneted. I don’t know why it magneted there without gum nor anything adhesive.
He instructed that I lay still for hours, to make sure that greater amout of that dark blood is out.”
See the post below:
