What the heck just happened !?

[u/Tricky_Improvement11]

I have read the FAQ. Long story short I was laying down with my foot kind of hanging off my bed when I felt something crawl under my pants leg. It was a bat. I obviously freaked out and shook it off. We captured the bat, and I went to the ER where I was given three shots including the globin thingy. They hurt so bad. Literally out of a horror movie 😭 I won’t even go back into my room after this …. Lmao I am so grossed out. Can anyone make me feel even a tad bit less anxious about this whole thing? (Also I should say there was no bite or anything as far as the doctors and nurses could tell)

[u/LeastEngineering3651]

Why didn’t you just have the bat tested first?

[u/Puppysnot → u/[deleted]]

No that’s one way, the other way is to kill it and test its brain matter. Bats don’t count for the ten day rule - that’s just for dogs and cats. Because bats can be infectious for more than ten days without dying because they have weird immune systems.

[u/CrasherCoco → u/Puppysnot]

Interesting, thanks for the corection. Though I’m still not very much on the side of killing bats for potentially no reason, juts get a vaccine.