Posted on 01/09/2019 9:56:44 AM PST by Gamecock
When I lived in Islamabad (mid-60s), all of us embassy kids got to make the trip from school to the embassy dispensary for nearly 2 weeks to get rabies shots in the stomach. To this day, the smell of rubbing alcohol triggers that memory...
Colonel, USAF (ret)
Anyone with any medical training at all would connect a dog bite in Asia with pain in the same spot
Did she mention it to anyone??
No, but...I feel like heaving upon hearing that name! Now, I did know a guy once nicknamed “Stink Head”, but I had no idea how he got that name!
Reminds me of the old Glen Ford movie RAGE in which he is bitten by his own dog, in Mexico.
My then-teenage son got bitten by a bat the day before his high school graduation. It wasn’t until he did some Googling to find out that only one person has ever survived without being treated that he told his mom and me the next day. Since we were planning a family vacation out of state to Myrtle Beach immediately after his graduation, we had to work with the CDC to have his vaccine shipped to a doc-in-the-box there for administering over the next week (the doses need to be given at exact time intervals).
We were in a pretty big group of people in the waiting room with typical ailments, and he got called in ahead of them for his shot, since he didn’t need to see a doctor but only a nurse to administer it. They gave us the stink eye for cutting the line until my wife leaned over to the person next to her and said, “He’s getting a rabies shot.” They all gave us a little more space, and were happy at that point for us to be done and get out of there.
Thank you - I’m now making a list of cures I read about (from fellow FReepers).
Got any more you’ve personally experienced?
That one is so effective the others don’t matter. :)
Haha!
Oh well, in time I’m sure the list will grow (should’ve started it years ago!)...
That’s what you get for doing yoga.
I’m a man I was diagnosed with panic attacks multiple times. It was hyperthyroidism. Sigh.
In Thailand Rabies is a problem such that basically when someone is bitten (or scratched) by a local dog/cat they get the rabies shots (free at the GVT hospital).
We ensured our dogs and cat got their shots however that was not the norm. My TW (Thai Wife) told me 3 people died in the village last year after being licked by their dog that was later found to have rabies.
In the USA we basically on worry about wild animals and forget pets. I’m sure that what she believed about the puppy.
The tentative diagnosis for rabies would have been in the history, not the symptoms.
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