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Bryce Lees … will be watching for snakes when he checks on the chooks (Photo: RACQ LifeFlight)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

January 31, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday the 13th is unlucky for some, but for Blackbutt 10-year-old Bryce Lees it turned out to be lucky after all, despite being bitten by a snake.<\/p>\n

Bryce was walking down to lock up the family\u2019s chickens as part of his daily chores about 7:00pm when he accidentally stood on the snake, which he described as “black with diamonds on it”.<\/p>\n

Trained by his dad in what to do if bitten, quick-thinking Bryce put his T-shirt as a bandage on his leg, before jumping on a family quad bike to alert his mum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always told the kids: \u2018If you ever get bitten by a snake, always look to see what type it is’,” his mum Melissa said.<\/p>\n

“He looked and then he took his shirt off and tried to wrap it around his leg.”<\/p>\n

Melissa called 000 as soon as she saw Bryce had been bitten mid-calf.<\/p>\n

An ambulance crew was quickly on site, followed soon afterwards by an RACQ LifeFlight helicopter from Toowoomba.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After landing in the family\u2019s horse paddock, the LifeFlight crew quickly transported Bryce, accompanied by his mum, to Toowoomba Hospital.<\/p>\n

Melissa, a nervous flyer, was reassured throughout Bryce\u2019s airlift.<\/p>\n

\u201cLifeFlight was great. The crew gives you a run down on everything and tells you what all the noises are. That really helps to calm you down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Following a series of blood tests, Bryce left the hospital the following day.<\/p>\n

The family believe it was probably a carpet snake – another lucky strike.<\/p>\n

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Bryce was one of 279 patients who received lifesaving treatment from RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crews around Queensland during a record-breaking summer holiday period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of missions flown from December 10 to January 22 was up 19 per cent on last year.<\/p>\n

Lifeflight attended 26 motor vehicle or motorcycle accidents; 46 life-threatening accidents or emergencies where helicopters landed at the scene; 183 inter-hospital transfers; nine search and rescues missions and eight neonatal retrievals.<\/p>\n

Toowoomba was the busiest LifeFlight base in Queensland with 83 missions, followed by Brisbane with 79 and the Sunshine Coast with 63.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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