May 31, 2007
Croatian Heart Patient Battles Snake
Stumble it!80-year-old Miko Vukovic thought that his fight for life was over when he woke up in intensive care after heart surgery. That was before a poisonous snake found it’s way into his room at a hospital in Ogulin, central Croatia.
Vukovic noticed the snake on the floor of his hospital room. Vukovic was sharing the intensive care room with three other recovering cardiology patients when he spotted the poisonous Vipera Berus snake near his bed.
Though Vukovic was on a strict bed-rest regime following his surgery, he felt he had no choice but to shoo the snake away. So he struck out at the reptile with his walking stick.
“I was fighting for 10 minutes before I managed to kill it with my walking stick,” Vukovic told reporters. “The bugger almost bit me in the leg but then I let it have it - right between the eyes.”
Staff believe the snake was inadvertently delivered to the hospital in a giant flower arrangement. When the flowers were discarded, a snake skin was found. Once inside, the snake was free to roam around the hospital, making it’s way to the intensive care ward.
No official statement was released by the hospital’s management.
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