“The story is about my second son who was three years old when it happened. At the time we were very poor and lived in the jungle. My father was a  storekeeper and he would store dry wood next to the veranda. On the night of the incident I had prepared food for my family. After dinner my son was very sleepy and wanted to rest early. He fell asleep outside on the veranda. After I cleaned the kitchen I carried my son, who was still sleeping, into the bedroom. This is when he started vomiting, all night long. The vomit looked white and bubbly. At first I thought it was food poisoning. The next day I brought him to the Ayurvedic Doctor. The reason I brought him to the traditional healer is because there was no hospital in the village. The Ayurvedic doctor suspected my son was having an allergic reaction. We brought my son home but his condition only got worse. On the second day we decided to bring him to the hospital which was 15 km away. My son’s body started to become very weak, his neck became weak and his head started to hang, he could not open his mouth and eyes anymore, nor could he speak. At the time my sister worked as a midwife in the Hospital. She had started to beg the doctors to take a blood test. By the time the blood results came back my son had passed away. The result was snakebite envenoming. I could not believe this because I had never seen the marks of a snakebite on my son’s body. When my sister and I started washing my son’s body as preparation for the burial, my sister found the marks of a snakebite on the side of the head behind his ear. I have a lot of regret that we did not find out earlier. My son could still be alive now if we had known he was bitten by a snake.”