Posted on 01/15/2018 3:03:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
When our daughter had them the series was to have been 12 shots but she was having allergic reactions and they stopped at about 8 shots. She was probably about 6 or seven and was a trooper.
Rare occasions. This girl in my little town suicide it.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2011/jun/13/willow-creek-child-survives-rabies/
Man... I said a little prayer for him yesterday. This sucks. Praying for the family. Especially the dad... I can’t imagine what he’s putting himself through.
My granddaughter found a dead bat in the schoolyard. Thank God she showed it to her teacher who wasted no time contacting the health department and my son and dil. It was rabid and she had to undergo the shots which she handled with no problem. She was only 5 and she accepted what had to be done. She didn’t mind the shots at all.
It doesn’t work once the victim begoms symptomatic. The boy was symptomatic before the family took him to the clinic.
Survived! Damn autocorrect.
I laughed when I saw your post, mine is 23 and he was 9 at the time also!
I have not been to awful countries, myself, but my daughter in the Coast Guard has been to several.
If you call 18 people who survived in all of the known cases occasionally survivable ok. Not odds I’d take. One wonders if the “treatment” had anything to do with the survival.
Years ago my daughter called. Our 8 year old granddaughter had been bitten and scratched by a stray cat. I told her that either she or dad had to take her to the ER while the other went to comb the neighborhood for the cat. We found the owner putting up signs for a lost cat. We confirmed all shots current but cat bites are scary.
There are several “Chicken Billy” stories, including one involving a newborn lamb. He grew out of it, and we only bring it up when he gets above himself.
Given that the survival rate without treatment is ZERO, if it were your son, would you risk the treatment?
I did some spelunking in the Ozarks as a teen during the ‘70s. Thought my globe would protect well enough and grabbed a little brown bat that was hanging from the ceiling. It bit me real good on the hand through the glove and certainly pierced the skin. The teeth felt like needles going in. I knew nothing about rabies in bats until reading about it sometime during the following year or so. If I had known about rabies in bats back then, I would have headed for a doctor.
Did quite a bit of rabbit hunting back then, too, but did check every rabbit liver for the sign of tularemia (”like stars in the night”) and washed hands thoroughly.
The point is if it were my son he would have gotten the post exposure rabies series and prevented the disease altogether. Of course once you are faced with 0 odds versus a smidge more than zero you grasp at straws. But you never should have been in that position in the first place.
washing the site immediately is not a bad thing to do....not taking the boy in immediately is what ultimately was his undoing....
As do I. Bravo Mom!
You were lucky! Any bat encounter is presumed to be rabid. Last I heard it did not require a definite skin break—- even contact with guano could be enough to transmit the disease. It’s a shame because they are fascinating creatures
The joke was that as one entered Afghan airspace on Arianna Airlines, one got amoebic dysentery. We got lots of shots. It was explained that every disease known to man was endemic in Afghanistan.
LOL!
His older sister is very influential, in a positive way. When Bill thought he’d like to be a starving musician, living in his car in Walmart parking lots, she reminded him of all the years we ate rice and beans and didn’t go anywhere except church and the public library.
“No, Mama’s not crazy about beans. We were POOR.”
Sad the little guy couldn’t fight off the disease. There are a lot of “What if’s” here but nothing can reverse what happened. Hopefully the father, the doctors and the hospital will all learn something from this tragic death and will pass their findings on to hopefully, provide information to avoid another similar incident.
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