Bitten by a rat by the moat

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Even the rats hate you!

It wasn't a personal attack by the rat , it may have just been hungry and saw something to eat on the pavement 

[BritManToo]

40 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It wasn't a personal attack by the rat , it may have just been hungry and saw something to eat on the pavement 

Your foot!

[Mac Mickmanus]

On 4/16/2023 at 10:48 PM, simon43 said:

Regardless of how small the risk of contracting rabies from a rabid rat, I would have thought that the almost 100% certainty of dying if one contracts rabies, and dying in a rather gruesome manner would encourage anyone to get rabies shots.

Why would anyone NOT get rabies shots and anti biotics for the other diseases you can contract ?

  The ten days of not drinking alcohol paid for all my treatment and I was in need of a tetanus update .

  Why would anyone NOT get jabbed ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just need the last./fifth anti rabies shot of which they use in Thailand .

   I am back in the UK now and we don't use those vaccinations here , so , The NHS will probably have some of the Thai vaccinations tucked away somewhere , hopefully anyway

[Mac Mickmanus]

Went to my local U.K hospital and told them the situation and what vaccines I'd had in Thailand and told them that I needed one more jab.

   The Thai vaccines are not used in the U.K and not on the list of allowed drugs .

   My hospital had to phone the Ministry of Health to get permission to use the Thai vaccines .

   I explained the situation to the MoH and they gave permission for me to get injected with the Thai vaccine .

   All in all, it all cost 12 000 Baht in Thai and I didn't have to pay in the U.K

   If the risk was something like malaria or dengue fever , I wouldn't have bothered with the vaccinations , but rabies is a death sentence , once its taken hold on you , its certain death and there's no cure or anything .

Edited May 8, 2023 by Mac Mickmanus

[Mac Mickmanus]

On 4/16/2023 at 4:45 AM, placeholder said:

I guess most people who get a rabies shot haven't been previously vaccinated. Anyway, your misfortune has given me the impetus I need to get myself vaccinated.

Once you've been vaccinated, then you don't have to get gamma globin injection into the open wound (if you get bitten) , that was the only injection that was unpleasant and hurt quite a bit .

  I had been sat in the hospital waiting a while a knew what was coming and the Doctor walked over with a syringe in his hand and got the injection ready and then he began to explain what he was going to do .

  "I am going to put the injection into the open would , the injection needs to go in quite deep and you are going to need about six of them and it might sting a bit and ............................"

   I said : *Just shut up and  do it will ya, I really don't need a running commentary , just get it done "

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Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

Once you've been vaccinated, then you don't have to get gamma globin injection into the open wound (if you get bitten) , that was the only injection that was unpleasant and hurt quite a bit .

  I had been sat in the hospital waiting a while a knew what was coming and the Doctor walked over with a syringe in his hand and got the injection ready and then he began to explain what he was going to do .

  "I am going to put the injection into the open would , the injection needs to go in quite deep and you are going to need about six of them and it might sting a bit and ............................"

   I said : *Just shut up and  do it will ya, I really don't need a running commentary , just get it done "

Did they give you a piece of leather to bite down on?

[JimTripper]

Strange for a rat bite to draw blood, but you need to get that checked out and taken care of and stop complaining.

 

The important thing is that the rat was unharmed.

 

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by JimTripper

[Dante99]

12 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

 I said : *Just shut up and  do it will ya, I really don't need a running commentary , just get it done "

I am sure your polite comment was appreciated.

[fondue zoo]

Also Rat Powers!?