Now with less rabies
I was up at my parents’ cabin on the Sunshine Coast for the BC day long weekend, and had a great time. My cousin came up with her family the following weekend and discovered a bat in the bedroom that I was sleeping in. Unfortunately they didn’t capture it, so now I’m considered to be possible exposed to rabies. The numbers I heard were 10% of the bats in BC have rabies.
Since rabies is an almost always fatal disease (1 person has survived it without having severe brain damage, ever!), Tracy and I were determined to require the immunoglobulin and vaccine.
I was initially freaking out because I heard that the rabies treatment was quite painful, and required injections to the abdomen. Thanks to modern medicine, I only need injections in the arm and butt. I’ve since had the ones in the rear end, and my first in the arm, and will have the remaining 4 shots in the arm. Next one is this afternoon.
Injections are never fun but it’s better than dieing a particularly nasty death.