No, really, she just came back from India, she's not normally like this. Sometimes.
This actually hints at why I’m really not interested in visiting Asia. Or France.
In health care we talk about common vs uncommon conditions like this:
If you hear hoof-beats, it is more likely to be a horse (common issues) than a zebra (uncommon).
Sometimes we forget that our patients travel to places where there are a lot of zebras.
Note to self: Puppies in India are not cute, they are the devil!
Note to self: Puppies in India are not cute, they are the devil!
No, really, she just came back from India, she's not normally like this. Sometimes.
It wouldn’t have mattered. Once Rabies is symptomatic it is 100% fatal. There has been 1 exception, an experimental treatment where they pretty much had to turn the patients brain off. She survived but I dont know the degree of her recovery.
Currently have a new puppy (13 weeks old) to young to get rabies shot. He is a land shark (Golden Retriever), I have the arm and hands wounds to prove it. Got a tetanus shot the other day just in case. Running out of bandages, he might be an alpha dog... He gets his last round of shots in a couple of weeks that includes rabies. Would biting him back on the ear help.. lol
I was bitten by a bat and had to get the rabies shot regime. The shots are not that bad but it ain’t fun. Also the heath dept calls you all the time to see if you made your infusion appointment. If you miss they send the cops.
The ER experience in the US is pretty bad... I got 3 different and conflicting instructions on a recent ER visit, the Attending, the intern/resident (not sure which one he was) and the nurse, all gave me slightly different information and at times contradictory info.
Not so much on the actual diagnosis, but for the follow up stuff I would need to be doing....
I know why this happens, the general instructions were similar, but the details were different.
I really do feel for the elderly or those who are for other reason incapable of advocating for themselves, because if you are a passive patient, this is the kind of stuff that will happen.
Of course, My bet is she never told anyone that she got bit.. and none of the doctors/staff asked her if she had been.
So they diagnosed on symptoms rather than on doing a full patient background which would have almost instantly made think of possible infections... etc
That and the Urgent Care she visited, almost certainly didn’t even see a doctor, most likely was a PA if she lived in a state that allows them.
If she had been correctly diagnosed with rabies, she would be just as dead.
nor did she ever receive a rabies vaccination in her lifetime.
When I lived in Islamabad (mid-60s), all of us embassy kids got to make the trip from school to the embassy dispensary for nearly 2 weeks to get rabies shots in the stomach. To this day, the smell of rubbing alcohol triggers that memory...
Colonel, USAF (ret)
Anyone with any medical training at all would connect a dog bite in Asia with pain in the same spot
Did she mention it to anyone??
Reminds me of the old Glen Ford movie RAGE in which he is bitten by his own dog, in Mexico.
That’s what you get for doing yoga.