>>>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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>>For a while we had a couple hedgehogs as pets. The hedgehog is a scary animal, you just point a finger and it gets so scared it rolls into a ball. Now my daughters found ways to play with them like with kittens, and one of them got bitten twice in three days, same hedgehog, same finger.
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>>We took her to the epidemiology (where the doc was the husband of my wife's once roommate) and they gave her the shots just in case - there would be an occasional rabid animal wandering over the border once every few years, and even that was forty miles away.
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>And, given the needle in the belly talk, how were the jabs administered?

I haven't seen, they took her to the next room, we stayed with the doc and went on with our coffee. AFAIK, it was a single shot in the arm. There was no scene at all.