[GreyGoose]

Remember in my "rabies/anxiety" posts how I said that when I came home from my walk (and having seen a bat fly over my head), I discovered a paper cut on my finger and freaked out?.

Well, about an hour ago my room mate had just finished up the dishes and I heard him mutter "huh...i must have gotten cut on something". So I rushed over to look at it and he had this superficial, paper-cut-like injury on the tip of his finger (just like mine) and so the next thing you know we are using a magnifying glass to "compare" our cuts and they looked IDENTICAL!.

So I asked him what he was doing right before he noticed the cut and he told me he had been running his fingers down in the little drain thing at the bottom of the sink and shortly after that is when he first noticed it.

So I looked down in the sink at the drain and that is when I spotted something that looked shiny and jagged and so I went into the bedroom real quick and came out with a pair of tweezers which I then used to extract the object and could see that it was a jagged, sharp piece of glass from a few days ago when a glass fell off into the sink and broke. I had washed the dishes a day or so ago and did the same thing with my fingers (mushed the bits of food to get them to go down the drain).

So anyway, I'm assuming/hoping that this is how I got the injury and not from a bat bite. Hmm...but what if the bat PEED on me when it flew by?...ahhh!!!.

Anyway, here are a few pictures I took and you can judge for yourselves...

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[h0kie]

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So anyway, I'm assuming/hoping that this is how I got the injury and not from a bat bite. Hmm...but what if the bat PEED on me when it flew by?...ahhh!!!.

Anyway, here are a few pictures I took and you can judge for yourselves...

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Uh...you're not going to want to hear this but I can barely see anything...maybe if I squint there is a teeny red line.

I don't think the bat peed on you as it flew by. Remember what the doctor at the ER said about the rabies shots? A teacher friend of mine went through them. They were awful. He said they give them in the stomach and are quite painful. (Not trying to spread panic...just "repeating the rumor")

I think you are fine. However, if you start feeling sick, then go to the doctor.

Be safe!

[MacD]

hang in there...anxiety makes us all super sensitive to injuries of any sort..as well we should be....love grace

[GreyGoose]

Yes sorry, the lighting was'nt all that good. The camera is an older model and the cut is now several days old and partially healed over.

The nurse who actually gives the shots told me that they give them to you all around the site of the bite and that is is soooo painful that they have to anesthetize you first. She told me that she has had patients go "bonkers" while they were getting the shots. Then, you get them in a series (ie; day3,6,12,14). Not at all fun I imagine!.

I'm glad that your rational side helped you to find the culprit. I'd think that if the bat had peed on your cut that you'd have known... but then again the same could be said for the bite. Either way, McDonald said it best... anxiety can bring out the worst in our fears. Just try to relax. I'm glad that it's nothing more serious. Take care.