ANOTHER EXCITING DAY AT THE BAT CAVE

After careful consideration, anxiety attacks, and general worrying because of what we've read about bat bites and rabies, john reached what I thought was ultimate anxiety level and called kaiser and made an appointment for today, Monday.
I was wrong. The ultimate anxiety was at 3am when he insisted he was feeling weird and we went to ER.
From what we read it appears a person could be bitten by a bat and not know it because they have very small teeth. At the ER they said that of they suspect it at all you get rabies shots.
They start today with seven shots that they keep promising will be painful and that no one on duty has ever given before, so it's hard to tell whose anxiety level is highest, nurse or patient.
As I write this it's 7 am and I think he was first seen about 4:45
I was already so tired I thought I was going to drive off the road on the way over here.
I'm also still trying to get ahold of Orkin to cancel our 8am appointment.
Finally they came in and gave him the shots. Five immunoglobulin and one vaccination. He has to come back in 3 days, 7 days, and 14 days for more shots. But apparently only one each time now. And they give these in the muscle -- arms and legs, not the stomach like they used to. The nurses double-teamed on this to give him 2 at a time. He says it wasn't too bad.
But then, he thought he was going to die so I guess it's all relative.
The sad thing about this is that he caught the bat that may or may not have bitten him and they could have tested it, but he threw it away.
We also know one more piece of information which is if you wake up with a bat in your bedroom and you don't catch it, they assume you've been bitten and treat it as rabid.
Since we'd been up since 3 am we came home and went to sleep. Right now we have the bedroom as a bat-free zone by putting towels under all the doors and only going in through the bathroom.

When I woke up, Santa Claus had been here and brought my new modem. Yippee!! I'll be back on line soon. NOT.
The damn thing is acting like my first one did. Plays red light green light forever. Went through all the troubleshooting, took a mini vacation to India ended up with the AT&T guy coming out here and looking at our wiring with amazement. I think he thought he might go up in the attic to see how some stuff was connected up, but being as how that's where the bats probably live, we decided to skip that. I told john he could go in the attic because he's vaccinated now. I should probably get him to take me to the vet and get a vaccination, too
Anyway, $155 later, I have my "free"modem installed and I'm BACK ON LINE.