Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans...John Lennon.
I've never been bitten by a dog before and i've never been attacked by one either.But yesterday morning before work i took our male lab out for a walk
in the cemetary behind our house,like i've done a hundred times before and as we were walking along i noticed a german shepherd near by and thought
nothing of it...
A couple of minutes later the german shepherd,i think it was a male,came near to us and the two dogs stopped and just looked at each other in silence
and then in a split second the german shepherd growled and lunged at "me" and got a hold of my hand.I pulled my hand from its mouth and kicked it and
it ran away.Wether that was the right thing for me to do or not,i guess it was just an involuntary reaction.All our dog did was just bark at the
german shepherd...
I looked at my "bloody left hand" and i knew right away that i should go to the hospital and i also knew that i have never seen that dog around here
before and i didnt notice any tags around its neck either.The first thing i did was walk me and our dog home and then i looked up rabies on the
internet and what i read scared me into going to the hospital.After waiting in the emergency room for four hours i saw a doctor and she told me that i
probably will not get "rabies",but because i dont know the owners of the dog that bit me,theres no way to know if it had been immunized for rabies and
that i should get the rabies shots just in case,which is what i'm doing...
Rabies is rare in the united states and theres more or less no cure once you have it and its a very painful and horrible way to die.The most common
wild animals to get rabies from are bats and racoons.Worldwide around 97% of rabies cases come from unvaccinated dog bites...
Sometimes a person can contract rabies,but severe symptoms wont show up "for months" and by then,99% of the time,its too late and those symptoms are
malaise,headache,fever,acute pain,violent movements,uncontrolled excitement,depression,hydrophobia,mania,terror attacks,lethargy,coma and respiratory
failure.A very terrible and evil way to die...
I was given a tetanus shot and "seven" rabies shots all over my body and i have to go back "three more times" and get more shots,but anythings better
than taking a chance,by doing nothing and then dying from rabies...
Rabies >
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