Ok, so this was just a joke, but it is a REAL 6 ft. python! One of our watchmen killed this snake outside my house the other night. It is strange that it almost feels like no big deal. The snake was still moving some and had muscle tone even though its head was cut off. We then went and put in on Dr. Peter's (young Dr. from Belgium that works at a hospital an hour away who was visiting to work at BMC for the week) porch to scare him in the morning. It didn't scare him at all because he just thought it was too weird, but a lady coming to bring bananas to his house saw it, threw all her bananas on the ground and went to find some men to kill it. Priceless. After that we placed it here in the kitchen to scare our guys that cook for us. It didn't scare them either. Too bad. Good thing was that the snake sure did taste good. No kidding. You should try it.
A few more points about snakes:
1) They make me pee in my pants.
2) In the course of a week we saw a carpet viper, a 5ft cobra, and this big python all with in 100 yards of my house. Yeah, that is pee your pants worthy.
3) Did I mention that carpet vipers after malaria and surgeries are probably the 3rd leading cause of hospital emission. They stop your blood from being able to clot, but it is not a huge problem because we have Anti-Snake venom in the hospital.
4) Oh yeah did I mention that we were OUT of ASV in the hospital this past week. ASV is controlled by the gov't and given out for free but rationed to each hospital. Long story short, BMC gets way more than its fair share of snake bites. So much so that the gov't doesn't trust that we actually use it because other hospitals have been known for getting it for free and selling it on the black market. Meaning that we get less than our proper share of ASV for all the snake bites that we treat. We were finally able to get some more, almost just in time before anyone had to be denied lifesaving treatment.
5) So apparently, no volunteer has ever been bitten by a snake, but I am not so sure I believe that.
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