I like to take walks and listen to loud music, often while wearing shorts. Two nights ago I was looking at my legs and I noticed two scratches on them.
I live in an area with a giant bat house within miles of my apartment. I don't remember ever coming into contact with a bat recently, or even seeing one beyond once or twice about a month ago. Still I'm nervous it's a bat bite and I'm gonna get rabies.
I went to my uni health clinic and the nurse basically laughed my out of the office telling me it wasn't a bat bite. My mom (who is a doctor) said the same thing, and I even called a guy at a natural history museum who worked with bats and he said I would've definitely noticed unless I was asleep, but that's unlikely since it would've been a bite.
Still I'm afraid it was a bat and I have rabies. Considering sticking myself with the ends of a staple, going to the er and claiming I know I was bitten so I can get the shots I need.
a bats mouth is not that big, it's fangs are like an inch apart MAX but these scratches are like 3 inches apart at the top. are you retarded? you had 3 different specialists tell you that its not a bat bite yet you're still convinced you need to rort the healthcare system like an autistic fuckhead. sage
Oliver Sullivan
But it could be a scratch instead of a bite, couldn't it? And you can get rabies from a scratch
Andrew Carter
think about it, a bat swooped by you, gave you two scratches on your calf (?) and flew away again and you didn't notice at all?? bullshit.
100% chance you just brushed a sharp twig or something
Lincoln Russell
go to the doctor as soon as possible, i had a friend of mine who had bats on his penth, once day one of these motherfuckers bite him and now hes on wheelchair and is retarded
See how the bat is on the floor? I did a lot of research and often rabid bats will go on the floor once their condition worsens.
Also the scratch is midway between my calf and ankle. The bat could've scratched me while I was walking. Not even a flying motion, but just a skitter jump and he'd get me. Bam! I wouldn't have even been seeing for it.
Ryder Clark
Mate, if you've got rabies, there's no cure. No matter what. Don't worry about things out of your control. Stress doesn't help
Dominic Turner
I doubt your friend is one of the few people who survived rabies without a vax shot.
That's not true. Once you get it, getting a series of five shots + immunoglobin from the hospital will save you 99.9999% as long as you get it before symptoms start showing, which can take anywhere from a few weeks to months. (With some cases shorter/longer). But once you start showing symptoms you are 99.9999% gonna die.
Kevin Gomez
he had a cerebrovascular accident, but survived, he can talk, but his eyes go dumb, can move his arms at least, nigga gonna make it
Jonathan James
i'm only afraid of rabies
but the nurse said the hospital would never want to give me the shot since I didn't actually see or feel a bat and cause it doesn't look like a bat
the medical system in this country is fucked
Andrew Adams
where do you live ? anyways, bro, dont stress about it, the chances of rabies are pretty low actually
Cameron Cox
gainesville
these are the uf bat houses
Lincoln Thompson
only because people get treatment
Ayden Martin
>"Considering sticking myself with the ends of a staple, going to the er and claiming I know I was bitten so I can get the shots I need."
Are you functionally retarded?
Michael Johnson
Sorry, OP, you have autism
Henry Russell
>laughed out of the doctors office And now about to be laughed out of fit
Lucas Richardson
I don't want to die of rabies
This isn't a controversial opinion
Nolan Smith
You're a giant retard, you just scratched your leg on some grass or thistle. A bat wouldn't 'scratch' you and a small scratch like that is not enough to transfer rabies anyway.
how the fuck a bat gonna bite you while you are running, like is it gonna kamikaze dive your leg just for a nibble
Jace Rodriguez
I was walking
I went to the nurse and she told me they wouldn't give me a shot unless I basically lied. Can I get in trouble for lying? I can't find actual side-effects of the vaccine that are serious
But I would have noticed being scratched by grass. And I don't think I've walked in grass tall enough to do that.
Elijah Wilson
Dude you don't have rabies. You're a hypochondriac. I've convinced myself that I developed a blood clot from sitting oddly on a couch. I've convinced myself I had barrets esophagus because I had a burning in my throat (it was laryngitis from post nasal drip). I've convinced myself that I have various mental disorders, cancer, etc. It's all fake and retarded. You're just being ridiculous. What you're saying is that you came in contact with a bat infected with rabies despite not seeing one and despite the reality that no bats at the giant bat house have rabies or else they would get euthanized. You got the idea of rabies in your head and it has made you retarded.
Isaac Ramirez
Also you're probably vaccinated against rabies. One person in the US got rabies in 2015. One.
Gabriel Robinson
That's only because people are encouraged like crazy to get the shots if they know they got attacked or had contact by any animal who carries it.
And humans aren't preemptively vaccinated unless you specifically seek it out
