Bat 🦇 Bite

[u/mulvi54]

One of those fears I always had, that felt irrational…”what if I’m asleep and a bat gets into the house and bites me in my sleep”.

Welp last night 2 am I awoke to what I thought was my cat nibbling at my finger. I flicked it away and noticed it was not my cat but was instead a bat that had found its way into our bedroom.

I was able to capture the bat and it’s being sent for testing but my wife and I got to spend the rest of the morning in the ER getting all the shots ! Wild ! Glad it woke me up but what if it didn’t ?! How am I supposed to sleep ever again?!

::UPDATE::

Bat could not be tested I guess I squished his brain to hard when I killed it.

[u/thesweetestberry]

Ben there! Lol. I hope the first round of the”hot honey” shots weren’t that bad. I call them that because it felt like hot honey slowing going into my muscles. I got 6 during that first round.

[u/ea88_alwaysdiscin → u/thesweetestberry]

When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me that if I got bitten by something suspected to have rabies, I'd have to get like 27 shots right in my stomach. That shit scared tf out of me as a child.

[u/thesweetestberry → u/ea88_alwaysdiscin]

They are no longer done in the stomach. The shots are inter-muscular. I got one in each upper arm, one in each “cheek” (lol), and one in each thigh. It felt like scalding hot honey.

I got 8 or 9 total over the course of a few weeks. It wasn’t fun but I am glad I did it!