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Doctors in Costa Rica say they are not sure whether environmentalist Pete Bethune’s leg will ever heal after a snake bite.
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His condition is improving after being bitten by one of the most dangerous snakes in Central America. Source: 1 NEWS
Medical officials told 1 NEWS that his condition is improving after he was bitten by one of Central America’s most dangerous snakes – the fer-de-lance snake.
The snake bit Bethune on the calf while on a patrol mission in the jungle of Corcovado National Park.
Bethune told 1 NEWS yesterday that her “life passed before my eyes” during the near-death experience.
“I felt this blow on my calf and knew immediately it was a snake, I turned around and this fer de lance snake crawled away from me. And he took a good bite too, ”Bethune told 1 NEWS from her hospital bed.
“I got a ton of poison in me and immediately went into shock.”
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Pete Bethune crawled almost 3 km through dense jungle to seek help after being bitten in Costa Rica. Source: 1 NEWS
The 55-year-old said he crawled nearly two miles back to shore, but as his condition deteriorated, members of his team took him to the local coast guard ship, where they took him to hospital.
“I tried to get one of the guys to take me, but it was too steep,” Bethune said.
“I kept hitting my leg. I was burning too much energy just holding on to this guy so in the end I thought of this technique where I would just sit on my butt and use my hands to support my weight and use my good leg, hold my bad leg in front of me and just We covered those two and a half miles with just me crawling on my butt. ”
Bethune was injected with antidote once she reached the hospital, where her left leg is still twice the size of her right leg.
