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ANXIETY OVER SNAKES

I have been having anxiety and I don't know how to get over it. I live in an estate in Idu, Abuja. 

One morning in December between 10am and 11am, my son who is 2 years old opened the door and stepped to the front of the door to play. 

He always likes stepping out that he will cry whenever we open the door or if a visitor comes and is leaving. 

So, sometimes my husband will open the door for him and close the protector in other for him to remain in front of the door and play.

On this day, the boy stepped out as usual and was there, only for my husband to step and out and lo and behold, there was a snake right in front of the door, it already climbed the tiles and my son was right there without knowing what it was.

 My husband quickly dragged him inside, closed the door and got help to kill the snake.
Again, on another day in the same December, there my son was again struggling to go out and I heard my husband scream at him to go back inside, the next thing I heard "Snake",

 I ran to the living room to ensure my son was inside and to make sure he didn't open the door again. This time around, the snake was facing our entrance, it's neck raised but it had not climbed the tiles. We got help and it was killed.

Then on Thursday, 29th January at around past 10am, I was in my room when I heard my husband call out to me to take my baby and go out (I am a new mum).

 First, he said I should get help for him. I was wondering because he was in the living room while I was in the bedroom and so, he was in a position to go out and get help. I ran to the window and called out our security but there was no response.

 My husband then said I should take my baby and run out of the house. At this point I didn't know exactly what was wrong. I was like is it fire? I couldn't smell anything. Thank God my son had gone to school. I was even expressing breast milk and my baby was sleeping in her bed, that was how I grabbed my baby and ran.

 So when i got to the living room my husband then said "Snake"! OMG! 

Another one! In my living room?

 I ran out barefoot my baby and breast pump calling out for my neighbour but no response. Security boy was not at his post. Thank God a guy was passing nearby and I told him that my husband needed help and he went and they killed the snake.

What happened was that my husband had just returned home not up to 1 hour from that time. Prior I was in the kitchen, I made breakfast, bathed my baby and all. So, when my husband came back, he sat on the chair by the window and was on his phone. I even told him his food was on the dinning and I left to the room.

 So, he said he felt something on his hand and swung his hand only for a Snake to fall off and immediately start heading towards the room. He threw something at it and it slide back to the middle of the living room. So, my husband picked the mop stick and used it to pin it down. He couldn't let go so it didn't escape and that was why he asked me to call for help.

We got the Snake chemical and fumigated the house and the compound. I left home for 2 days. Getting back now to the news of the lady that was killed by a snake bite.

 I have been so scared. I can't move freely in my house. I am anxious the moment my son leaves my site and I cannot confine him to one spot, he goes to the parlour, to the kitchen and to the other room where my living with me stays but as soon as he moves, I am calling out to him and asking him to get back.

 He can't freely watch cartoon in the parlour anymore. Once there is any feeling or touch on my body, even if it is my hair that touches my neck, I am scared. I am concerned about my baby in her cot.

I don't know why this happened all recently because we have lived in this house since 2023 and we only recently had these experiences. The apartment is in the basement of the house.

Please, this is a cry for help! 

I want to move to another apartment. My budget is 2M for a 2 bedroom apartment. I don't have money for agency and all those other bills that are factored into rent so I will prefer to deal directly with the house owner. 

Help me, help my children. 

Now, I can't even leave the house and my children in the care of my sister because I feel she cannot kill a snake and so what happens if a snake shows up?

 I will resume from my maternity leave soon and as long as we are still in this apartment, I don't know how I can function knowing my children are in the same house.

Even me here I am not the same at all......I fainted reading this story.....

Please leave that house ooooh...You can be sleeping and it will come and bite you...They can be hiding under the bed to cool off from the heat.....RUN FIRST, you will see house later!