June 2005

Mum who smiles through

FRI 10 JUN 2005

By LINDA SMITH

Penny Haley first knew how dangerous the black Tasmanian jack-jumper was when she was 29 years old and at the beach with her family.

“I was bitten as a child but never reacted,” the young mother said.

“But within 20 minutes of being bitten at Bicheno, I was writhing in agony and vomiting.

“Dad raced me to Swansea to the medical centre and I only found out later that, all the way, he was rehearsing CPR in his head because he thought that he was going to have to use it.”

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