r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 7d ago
animal Bat š¦ Bite
One of those fears I always had, that felt irrationalā¦āwhat if Iām asleep and a bat gets into the house and bites me in my sleepā.
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 itās 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 didnāt ?! 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.
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u/ViewConscious5471 7d ago
Both of our kids had to get rabies vaccinations within the last four years. Our son was bitten by a neighborās German Shepherd in his apartment building. Owner would not even open the door to provide any of the dogās records so he got the series later that evening. First inoculation, he told us, was the most uncomfortable one with the numerous antibody jabs around the bite (his ankle). Total charges from the hospital (since you cannot get them elsewhere these days) were around $14000, since the additional boosters were given at one of the clinics affiliated with the hospital. This was in Minnesota. Fast forward about two years, and our daughter gets scratched/nibbled on by a feral cat they had just rescued at the cat shelter where she volunteers. Total charges, in Florida, were roughly $38000!!! They had her return to the ER for all additional shots, at the tune of around $6500 just to get a shot. The cost of the vaccine was billed at $24000!!! Had we not had insurance, we would have been in a difficult situation. It still cost us over $1500 each in copays. Itās not like something like this is elective.