>What's it like to get a shot in the stomach? I'm as brave as any other guy but the thought of it gives me the heebie jeebies. I picture the needle about a foot long. Maybe it's one of those things that sounds scarier than it is.
It was pretty close to 40 years ago, but I remember it was a very big needle and I just couldn't believe they were really going to do it. I actually thought is was some kind of hazing thing. I'm not at all squeemish about needles but yeah, that one really freaked me. Heck of an incentive not to pet strange animals, though.
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>>Before being sent to Turkey I was given a battery of shots, including three rabies shot in the stomach. I asked if this meant if I got bit I'd be okay and they said no, this will just increase your chances of staying alive until you can get to Ankara so we can give you the full 18.
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>>>I don't know this for a fact but have heard treatment of rabies consists of a series of shots in the stomach. That is probably no big deal to a woman who has undergone childbirth but my reaction is Just Shoot Me.
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>>>>For some reason, NC has a high number of rabies cases every year. Here in Guilford county, there were
37 confirmed cases in 2006 - the highest in the state.
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>>>>>>Hate to spoil your enjoyment, but I regularly see foxes out in the woods. Foxes tend to not come out in the open though, so if one does, it
usually is desperate or ill. Stay away from it. I once had a rabid fox leap
onto my car while I was stopped at a stop sign in my rural area. It ran across the road to house on the land there and ran straight to the house. They had to catch it and turn it over for testing and sure enough, it was rabid.
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>>>>>We don't have that problem, luckily.
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>>>>>>>I'm sitting in my office, looking out at my front lawn, and a small fox just walked by. This isn't that odd, except that I'm in a highly-populated first-right suburb of Philadelphia, about 8 miles from Philly's City Hall as the crow flies.
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>>>>>>>It's not the first time I've seen a fox here, but it is pretty rare. Unfortunately, it didn't stop and was gone before I could grab a camera.
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>>>>>>>Tamar
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
