Posted on 01/15/2018 3:03:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
How about not putting a sick bat in a bucket! Control your AO! Being stupid can really hurt.
On treatment for other issues, I have had tubes shoved into my side entering my lungs after scalpels cleared the way.
The Doc said, it's gonna hurt...I said, do what you need to do.
I remember the pain fondly if I can remember it at all.
As my brother says, "It is what it is."
"You deal with it like a man."
A week hardly seems long enough for the virus to reach a dangerous level.
The incubation period for rabies is 3 to 10 weeks. Involved animals are often observed for 10 full days to determine if they are infected before human treatments are started.
Sorry dad was an idiot
Any ER doc would have started that kid on rabies shots
The internet is full of false information.
Yes you 6 yr old furst grade kids
Disobey your parents and die
Its your fault
Especially when the parents are too stupid to take you to an ER
The biggest drawback to the treatment these days is the astronomical markup by the hospital. Prophylaxis isn’t cheap, but it beats the hospital costs (I’ve seen reports of up to $40,000 a person for the series from a hospital).
Every medical source I’ve consulted says at least 3 weeks or longer as the incubation period, not one week. If caught, treatment often involves observing the biting animal for 10 days to determine if it shows signs of rabies infection, so one week would fall within this relatively long period.
In what seems like a previous lifetime, I was a Peace Corps Trainee getting ready to go to Afghanistan. I was given rabies shots (in the arm) as a precaution. It was supposed to be 80% effective. This was to give us a chance if we got bitten and couldn’t get to India in time for real rabies treatment. Anyway, as the shot was being administered, I could feel my arm muscles start to contract & relax as the vaccine was going in. An unpleasant shot, but not worth dying over, even if administered in the stomach.
Poor Billy, he was hyperventilating, bright red, sweating buckets, but no amount of reasoning did any good. As soon as the shot was done, he was fine.
He’s 23 now, and he hates it when his older sister mentions this event, as well as the even funnier conniption he had when he thought a kitten was going to get in the van with him. No bigger than a baseball - meeeeeew? - but he was terrified.
There has never been a recovery without it (to my knowledge).
I have an elderly friend who married a State Department employee in the early 1960s. (He was a medical technician, ran x-ray machines and such.) Their first post was Kabul.
Been there, done that.
Hold ‘em down and let them flip out!
And what kind of person would even think of putting the bat anywhere - except a hole in the ground? Well, that dad will have the rest of his life to consider his stupidity. Tough and sad but you can’t fix stupid!
There is a lessen in there, lol.
I did, too.
There has been at least one recovery, but that might almost be a miracle. If there is any chance of rabies exposure the post exposure shot series is essential.
I got bite by a bat and had to get the shots. No side affects from the bite but goth chicks started to look good to me. I missed an infusion appointment once and the next day the police called me. That is how serious it is.
In 24 hours CNN reports dads fear of being deported to Norway, prevented him from seeking care...
Rabies is not treatable It is however preventable
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