A Saskatchewan man is in a coma after he was bitten by a rattlesnake while golfing in Texas.

On July 27, Daniel Fehr, who is from Swift Current, Sask., but works in the U.S., was golfing outside of Odessa, Texas, when a rattlesnake hidden in tall grass bit him.

Daniel's wife, Stephanie Fehr, said Daniel quickly went into anaphylactic shock and suffered a cardiac arrest while being rushed to the hospital.

Daniel is now in a coma, after being in cardiac arrest for 22 minutes. After nearly a month in a hospital in Odessa, he was flown back to Saskatchewan and remains in a coma at a hospital in Regina.

Getting Daniel back to Saskatchewan was itself an ordeal, Stephanie said. She said the nurses in Odessa in particular were a huge help, gathering money to pay for the flight home after insur

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